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LA LEGGE DEI GANGSTERSMUSIC COMPOSED AND DIRECTED BY PIERO UMILIANI MEGA-RARE, ITALIAN JAZZ OST HOLY GRAIL Original, hard to find genuine 1st pressing - 1969 OMICRON label LPS 0016, STEREO - original fold-out sleeve Original soundtrack for the Giallo Thriller movie directed by Siro Marcellini and produced by LOYOLA CINEMATOGRAFICA, with music composed and directed by the great maestro Piero Umiliani.
Line-up: Trumpet: Cicci Santucci Alto Sax: Marcello Boschi Flute, Bass Flute: Gino Marinacci Piano: Piero Umiliani Vibraphone: Franco Chiari Guitar: Enzo Grillini Contrabass: Maurizio Majorana Drums: Roberto Podio Also credited on this session are Antonello Vannucchi at organ I Marc 4 , Livio Cerveglieri at tenor sax, Oscar Valdambrini on trumpet plus the Alessandro Alessandroni Giulia De Mutiis scats, Dino Piana trombone, Mario Gangi Silvano Chimenti guitars, Berto Pisano on bass.
Originally recorded in Rome, november 1968.
Legendary soundtrack and one of the Umiliani top and rarest records out there.
A superb Jazz session featuring the best musicians active in Italy at the time.
Inspired Giallo Jazz session with bluesy vibes and boppish tinged instrumentation like the the great themes on side A, LA LEGGE DEI GANGSTERS and GENOVA, PIAZZA DE FERRARI, DALLE 2 ALLE 7 .
Both track are structured into more parts with several orchestral variations and classy Jazz arrangements.
More sophisticated and renomated score themes on the B side with the famed and largely sampled CREPUSCOLO SUL MARE .
Stellar ITALIAN OST and Rare collectors item, not to be missed in this impossible shape Check the clip HERE Record and Cover: Amazing NM shape, archive condition.
Record was probably played a couple of times, cover doesn t show signs of wear.
Top copy.
Review from LondonJazz News by Andrew Cartmel La Legge dei Gangsters Gangster s Law was an obscure 1969 Italian crime film.
It starred Klaus Kinski and was the last picture directed by Siro Marcellini.
But what appears to be no more than the score to a forgotten gangster flick is actually a great Italian jazz album, featuring a large gathering of the country s strongest players including Oscar Valdambrini on trumpet .
It is the creation of Piero Umiliani and is right up there with his classics such as Svezia Inferno e Paradiso and is certainly one of the maestro s most jazz-dominated film projects.
Crepuscolo Sul Mare Twilight on the Sea is a vehicle for plangent acoustic guitar, which begins almost in media res, by Mario Gangi.
Genoza P.zza De Ferrari Dalle 2 Alle 7 signifies a time and an abbreviated address Genoza Piazza De Ferrari From 2 To 7 and, by contrast, the guitar here is electric and is played by Enzo Grillini with the fat sound of Wes Montgomery.
The prudent and judiciously deployed vibes are the work of Franco Chiari and Umiliani himself plays piano with Basie-like restraint and minimalism.
The captivating, probing bass flute is courtesy of Gino Marinacciand the mocking trumpet by Cicci Santucci blows Miles Davis style fragments.
This piece has both powerful swing, propelled by Enzo Grillini s bass and Roberto Podio s drums, and a modernist surface of sustained solos.
Swing Come Sempre Swing As Always is propulsive West Coast big band jazz with a substantial and lovely tenor solo sax played, with distinction, by Livio Cerveglieri set against massed brass interjections.
It s reminiscent of Shorty Rogers with a harder, more aggressive Stan Kenton edge of course Shorty Rogers played and arranged for Kenton .
The splendid title track, La Legge Dei Gangsters is an extended piece which features a boppish tenor solo from Cerveglieri that evokes a moan of pleasure from a member of the band and is also noteworthy for the wild keening squeal of the trumpet by Cicci Santucci, which becomes California-mellow at the end.
Enzo Grillini s easygoing guitar and more of Marinacci s lovely flute are further treats to be found here.
Episodio is a folkloric, baroque piece distinguished by a slanting expanse of strings played by Orchestra D Archi and the wavering water-colour Hammond electric organ of Antonello Vannucchi.
Lui E Lei He and She is aptly titled, with a ravishing countermelody of male and female scat interweaving from the husband and wife team of Alessandro Alessandroni and Giulia Alessandroni.
Tema Dell addio Farewell Theme is another showcase for Vannucchi s Hammond organ, supported by subtly effective drums and bass Roberto Podio and Maurizio Majorana , and strongly calls to mind the crime jazz masterworks of Elmer Bernstein and his film scores like Walk on the Wild Side and The Carpetbaggers.
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