JELLY'S BACK IN TOWN

At Bergamo Jazz '96 Ensemble Mobile proposed to M° Giorgio Gaslini, a jazz musician of international fame, the composition of a piece of music inspired by Jelly Roll Morton, a protagonist in the history of jazz. That was the birth of "Jelly's back to town": a sort of musical fable. Jelly comes back to New York nowadays on his Torpedo and, together with his old friend Billy, discovers the music is changed but still many people owe him a lot. That's why he decides to go back to heaven. The suit features three of the best soloists of the Italian scene: Gianluigi Trovesi, Tino Tracanna, Paolo Fresu, and Gaslini himself, who conducts and plays the piano. The choice of the theme is not casual but it expresses the common interest to mix the latest jazz experiences and researches with the most popular and authentic tradition of the Afroamerican music, well represented by the figure of Jelly Roll Morton, one of those who started it. The set consists in some re-arrangements of his songs and of old French and Creole songs, some original songs by Gaslini and Giuseppe Verdi's Miserere.

Conduction & Piano: Giorgio Gaslini

Ensemble Mobile

Maurizio Beltrami: flute
Silvia Infascelli: voice
Guido Bombardieri: alto sax & clarinet
Maurizio Moraschini: tenor sax & clarinet
Alberto Nacci: tenor sax
Roger Rota: baritono, tenor sax
Ugo Gelmi: & sax
Umberto Marcandalli: trumpet & French horn
Sergio Orlandi: trumpet & French horn
Pierluigi Salvi: bass trombone
Angelo Parodi: trombone
Oscar Gelmi: horn
Adelio Leoni: guitar
Fabrizio Garofoli: piano
Sandro Massazza: bass
Vittorio Marinoni: drums
Stefano Bertoli: percussions