I only have one Rearward lp re-issue "Free-Blown Jazz" I think is the title (I'm still hunting for it, since I moved and vinyl is in boxes everwhere).
Any other info you folks have on him? I remember really enjoying the lp. Italian, mid-free stuff.


Thanks,

HB

I don't have anything other than a sideman date with Giorgio Buratti leading.

Good player, though. Maybe some of our Italian Jazz Recommendations crew can chime in.

There is some early Eraldo Volontè stuff on the JAZZ IN ITALY IN THE 40s CD issued by the Riviera Jazz label.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=415

I doubt that style-wise this is what you are looking for but it is an interesting CD that - given the early post-war limitations in Italy - shows they were capable of astonishing and original things there.

He plays on screen and on the soundtrack of Antonioni's classic "La notte" (1960) as part of Giorgio Gaslini's quartet. I don't think any of that music has been released. I'm not sure, but possibly Volonté turns up quickly on the first Gaslini "Intégrale" (vols. 1/2, that's a series of double CDs, see the Gaslini thread for more info), but I can't remember for sure. But "La notte" has quite a nice soundtrack (though Fusco's musique concrète fits better with "L'avventura" and "L'eclisse"... but in "La notte", the jazzy sounds are fine).