Armando Trovajoli (1917 to 2013) wrote around three hundred film scores and gave Italian comedy its soundtrack: Ettore Scola's C'eravamo tanto amati and Una giornata particolare, Dino Risi's Profumo di donna, and the musicals of Garinei and Giovannini, Rugantino and Aggiungi un posto a tavola, whose songs the whole country still knows. Born in Rome, he learned violin as a boy and graduated in piano and composition at Santa Cecilia; by 1937 he was playing in Rocco Grasso's orchestra and soon became one of the best jazz pianists in the country, appearing at the Paris festival of 1949 alongside Charlie Parker and Miles Davis.