Eraldo Volante

[Shannon Dickey]

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

[clifford_thornton]

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.

[Big Beat Steve]

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.

[king ubu]

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).