Franco

After 50 years of career, Franco D'Andrea remains a prospective, an adventurer, a watcher of sensations and new expressions. It's probably no coincidence that another researcher of new horizons, Martial Solal, had invited in the 80 to play piano trio with John Taylor, the Paris Jazz Festival. Martial had also invited three times to the jury of the international jazz piano competition that bears his name. Like him, Franco D'Andrea carries in him, firmly rooted, the jazz idiom; and like him he strives to overflowing contours. In this adventure he calls the saxophonist Andrea Assayot, a familiar partner

Franco Tonani & Nora Orlandi "SFERE LUMINOSE" - 1970 Italian Library masterpiece reissued via Holy Basil with 4 bonus tracks. Out on June/July 2024. Unbelievable session by Nora Orlandi and legendary jazz drummer Franco Tonani with Antonello Vannucchi (of I Marc 4) at Piano\Organ, directed by Giancarlo Gazzani and Robby Poitevin. Easily the best and the most solid Italian lounge library with amazing bossa, cinematic lounge and lounge funk\beat tracks led by the superb wordless vocals of Nora Orlandi plus an uncredited male vocalist with a superb warm sound. Tracks 1-8, written by Nora Orlandi is more easy and lounge featuring, among the others, the little bossa monster PAN DE AZUCAR with superb sexy female and male scat vocals. Tracks 9-14, written by Franco Tonani, is very groovy and funky with 3 killer Morricone-esque lounge funk track with heavy drums, groovy "I Marc 4" hammond and loads of female scat vocals and chorus! Killer record, listen!

Jonathan Meades looks at the architectural legacy of one of Europe’s most notorious dictators - Francisco Franco. He reveals that Franco’s lasting contribution to Spanish architecture wasn’t in the dull official buildings he commissioned, but in the tower blocks of tourist towns like Benidorm.

Franco Tonani & Nora Orlandi "SFERE LUMINOSE" - 1970 Italian Library masterpiece reissued via Holy Basil with 4 bonus tracks. Out on June/July 2024. Unbelievable session by Nora Orlandi and legendary jazz drummer Franco Tonani with Antonello Vannucchi (of I Marc 4) at Piano\Organ, directed by Giancarlo Gazzani and Robby Poitevin. Easily the best and the most solid Italian lounge library with amazing bossa, cinematic lounge and lounge funk\beat tracks led by the superb wordless vocals of Nora Orlandi plus an uncredited male vocalist with a superb warm sound. Tracks 1-8, written by Nora Orlandi is more easy and lounge featuring, among the others, the little bossa monster PAN DE AZUCAR with superb sexy female and male scat vocals. Tracks 9-14, written by Franco Tonani, is very groovy and funky with 3 killer Morricone-esque lounge funk track with heavy drums, groovy "I Marc 4" hammond and loads of female scat vocals and chorus! Killer record, listen!

“L'imboscata” è il disco de “La Cura”, la canzone assoluta di Franco Battiato. E solo questo basterebbe a consacrarlo tra le più importanti opere della musica italiana. Ma non solo, “L'imboscata” è un album nel quale Battiato si mette per l'ennesima volta in gioco e traghetta la sua musica verso il rock più innovativo. Per festeggiare il 25° anno dalla sua pubblicazione 24/10/1996 Universal Music pubblica una nuova versione dell'album che vede ancora una volta il coinvolgimento di Pino “Pinaxa” Pischetola, storico fonico che mette mano ai nastri originali de “L'imboscata” per offrirne una versione allo stesso tempo rispettosa dell'originale e totalmente nuova.

Mondi Lontanissimi (Italian: "Very Distant Worlds") is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, released by EMI Italiana in 1985.

Giovanni Battista Velluti, born in 1780, was the last heir of the great Italian castrati. His exceptional voice, both powerful and agile, and his impressive vocal mastery opened the doors to the most prestigious opera houses in Europe.