Giorgio Gaslini

Giorgio Gaslini (1929-2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor, born in Milan. He recorded with his own trio at sixteen and led a quartet through the 1950s and 1960s, while also writing symphonic works, operas and ballets. He is remembered for opening Italian jazz to the free players of the 1960s and for scoring Michelangelo Antonioni's La notte (1961). Giorgio Gaslini made Nuovi Sentimenti (1966) with Don Cherry, Steve Lacy and Gato Barbieri, and Fabbrica occupata (1974) with Jean-Luc Ponty.