Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jazz. Show all posts

25/01/2026

Imagining the distant future

 
Eric Framond is an alias used by Camille Sauvage for his releases on Editions Montparnasse 2000; Camille Sauvage (1910-1981) was a French soul-jazz-funk clarinetist, library composer and orchestra leader.
 

Pan flute exercises for vampires

 
The Mystery Kindaichi Band is a Japanese experimental band masterminded in 1977 by  composer Kentaro Haneda, with an all-star lineup of the best jazz-funk studio musicians mid-‘70s Japan offered, including Hideo Ichikawa, Jun Moriya, Tadaomi Anai and Koji Hadori. Despite the misleading soundtrack designation in its title, this isn’t a film score. Instead, the album was conceived as an audio interpretation of Seishi Yokomizo’s famed fictional detective Kosuke Kindaichi.
 
The band plays with a looseness akin to that of Japan’s at-the-time bursting city-pop scene. They perform gaiety and slick disco-funk bookmarked with forlorn digressions. Many of the tracks divulge into effervescent escapes wherein members of The Mystery Kindaichi Band bounce off of each other. Most of these free-form dioramas follow unrelated, though nonetheless endearing, introductions.
 

06/11/2025

Dancing to multicolored melodies

 

 
Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.
 

04/10/2025

Mixing dreams in inexact proportions

 
Fusioon was a Spanish progressive rock/jazz-rock/"Canterbury sound" band from the 70's, formed by Manuel Camp (piano, organ, moog, mellotron, vocals), Marti Brunet (guitar, vocals, synthesizer), Jordi Camp (bass, vocals) and Santi Arisa (drums, vocals, flute). Their first album, "Fusioon" (1972) was instrumental and focused on Manel Camp's keyboard abilities and shared similarities with Ekseption, Focus and The Nice. Their second album, also entitled "Fusioon" (1974), proved to be a major step forward adding some Canterbury influences like Egg, National Health and Soft Machine. Their third and last work "Minorisa" (1975) was more complex and approached the music of Zappa, King Crimson and Gentle Giant.
 

Swimming in formic acid tides

 
Dana Kaproff (1954) is a composer from Los Angeles, CA; he has worked in over 100 films and television programs.
 

02/10/2025

Impressions of modern life

 
Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.
 

02/07/2025

Invoking the power of natural forces

 
Giancarlo Barigozzi (1930-2008) was an Italian jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinettist, composer and sound engineer. Has played with: Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Gil Cuppini, Giorgio Gaslini, Tony Scott, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, Jack Teagarden, Frank Sinatra and many others. Owner of Barigozzi Studio.

Autumn breezes across the Roman countryside

Fabio Fabor (1920-2011) (real name: Fabio Borgazzi) was an Italian prolific soundtrack and library music composer.

Looking into the eyes without blinking

 
Hypnose is a Electronic/Abstract /Jazz/Funk compilation made by legendary French Paris-based label International Music Label.
 

01/07/2025

Touring cotton landscapes

 
Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia and Easy Listening.
 

Pleasures of the blood

 
Edward Dicks (5 May 1928 - 27 January 2012) was an English composer. He is best known for composing the music for the novelty songs "Right Said Fred" and "The Hole in the Ground". They were both Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1962, recorded by Bernard Cribbins with lyrics by Myles Rudge, and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another song by Dicks and Rudge, "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam", was a million-seller hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton.
 

12/01/2025

Sounds for the absolute mystery

 
Gino Marinuzzi Jr. (1920-1996) was an US-born Italian composer and conductor; he was a major musical figure twice over, in movies as well as in composition and education, and he comes by that presence as his birthright. His father, Gino Marinuzzi (1882-1945), was a major Palermo-born conductor and composer, known around the world from the dawn of the 20th century, closely associated with the music of Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Donizetti, Bellini, and Richard Strauss. 

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. graduated from the Milan Conservatory in 1942, and later he was closely associated with Teatro dell'Opera de Camera in Rome, and made his conducting debut with the opera's ballet company in 1947. Marinuzzi subsequently turned to composition, including writing music for movies and radio. He entered the Italian film industry in 1950 with Romanzo d'amore, and over the ensuing decade wrote the scores to such diverse productions as Jean Renoir's Le Carrosse d'or (1952) and Vittorio Cottafavi's Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (1961). Marinuzzi also taught composition from the early '50s onward (among his most notable students is pianist Vittorio Bresciani) and later became fascinated with electronic music. In 1956, in collaboration with Federico Savina, Marinuzzi co-founded the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. His later achievements include the creation of the Fonosynth 2 elettronico, an instrument on which electronic music can be composed.

Gino Marinuzzi Jr. - Rhythms In Suspense

12/10/2024

Memories of teenage fun

 
Andy Moore (pseudonim of Janko Nilović) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.
 

06/06/2024

Following the warm currents

 
Guy Pedersen (1930 - 2005) was a French Jazz-Soul-Funk Double-bass player. He was, with Pierre Michelot and Michel Gaudry, one of the most appreciated double bassists for his qualities as a sideman, accompanying the greatest soloists. Pedersen also composed the music for numerous short films, as well as the music for the credits of Thalassa TV series.
 

28/04/2024

Reverberations of the cosmic background

 
Janko Nilović (1941) is a pianist, arranger and composer of Montenegrin and Greek descent who was born in Turkey and has lived in France since 1960; he has published many works, most of them on library labels not available for sale to the public. His oeuvre stretches from Classical, Jazz, and Funk to Pop, Psychedelia, and Easy Listening.

30/03/2024

Oscillations of very distant stars

 
I Pulsar (Pulsar Music Ltd) is an Italian recording studio band formed in 1976 by jazz musicians Enrico Pieranunzi and Silvano Chimenti and called "The Pulsar" in honor of the neutron star.
 

29/03/2024

Falling into deadly spyral

 
Beth B and Scott B is an influential duo of US experimental filmmakers, primarily active in New York City in the late 1970s to early 80s and associated with the "No Wave" and "Cinema of Transgression" movements. Scott B and Beth B (known under various combinations of their first names with "B" initial) were married and lived in NYC's East Village area. They directed several "no budget" 16-mm shorts and feature-length films via B Movies independent production company, with critics and progressive moviegoers praising their unique "punk bohemia" lo-fi aesthetics and violent, sinister themes. The duo also extensively collaborated with local experimental performers and noise artists and cleverly played in the New York hip crowd's impatience and "flakiness." Beth & Scott would typically finish a new movie within a few days, ensuring a steady stream of fresh material for weekly screenings at local rock clubs, such as Max's Kansas City or Mudd Club, New York.
 
In September 1982, Beth B & Scott B premiered their most acclaimed movie at the New York Film Festival, Vortex — a dark "noir" detective/thriller starring Lydia Lunch (of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks) with James Russo, Bill Rice, Haoui Montaug and Ann Magnuson. They ended the collaboration soon after the film's premiere, continuing working in film independently; Beth B has a more prolific artistic career, while Scott focused on the technical side, co-founding "Antenna Films" production company in 2000.
 

Lost continent in flames

 
Giorgio Carnini is an Argentinian-Italian composer, arranger, keyboardist (organ, synthesizer, piano), conductor and music educator.

20/03/2024

Hallucinating in the inner world

 
Armando Sciascia (1920-2017) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and violinist; founder of Vedette Records.

Armando Sciascia - Metempsyco

28/09/2023

Surrounded by metallic sobs

 
Krzysztof Komeda (1931-1968) was a Polish jazz pianist and composer of film music, by profession a doctor of laryngology.
 
The precursor of modern jazz in Poland, Komeda is mostly known for soundtracks for over 60 films, including these by Roman Polanski: "Knife In Water" (1962), "Disgust" (1965), "The Trap" (1966), and "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). Recognized as a father of modern Polish jazz he worked with numbers of musicians such as Jerzy Milian, Tomasz Stańko, and Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski.
 
In December 1968, whilst in Los Angeles, Komeda had a tragic accident which led to a haematoma of the brain, and after having been transported home to Poland in a coma and in terminal state, he died (aged 37).