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Enzo Randisi

Swing Ensemble (LP)

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*2025 repress* Did someone say Summer? Sicily is what Cuba is to the Caribbean, sun, sea, easy and friendly people with lots of troubles! You won't find anything better around that identifies the summer more than this album by Enzo Randisi who at the beginning of the 80s put together a Swing Ensemble as a tribute to that "cheerful" movement of Jazz music.

But Enzo and his fellas just couldn't stay on track and put in the best that the alternative Palermo area could offer in that historical period, like the sisters Cinzia and Loredana Spata, who brought the production to a next level in the vocal version of All Blues or in Chic Corea's Spain. But what really struck us was Charles Cables' version of "Quite Fire" (here missspelled as "Quite Fair"), released a few months earlier only in Japan and which would only become famous in the 90s with the Acid Jazz movement, and this tells us a lot about how hungry Enzo and Riccardo were of musical knowle, to be able to find some pearls in a city with basically no record shops and isolated...well...it's on an island!

For this re-press we enlisted Tony Higgins, who recently finished a very long commitment and greenlight to delight us with his polished English...Welcome back Tony!

Black vinyl / 505mcn paper / 30 x 60 cm Insert with Liner Notes by Tony Higgins printed on 250 mcn Lenza Top Recycling Paper / Condensed interview to Spata Sisters and exclusive pictures.

Details
Cat. number: EWOC21LP
Year: 2025

Format

Black vinyl / 505mcn paper / 30 x 60 cm Insert with Liner Notes by Tony Higgins printed on 250 mcn Lenza Top Recycling Paper / Condensed interview to Spata Sisters and exclusive pictures.

Enzo Randisi - Musser Percussion Keyboards

Riccardo Randisi - Acoustic Piano, Rhodes, ARP & Korg Keyboards

Marcello Pellitteri - Drums

Giuseppe Costa - Acoustic Bass & Electric Bass Guitar

Mimmo Cafiero - Congas & Percussions

Sandro Palacino - Tenor and Soprano Saxes

Loredana Spada - Vocalist

Cinzia Spata - Vocalist

Mary Lo Giudice - Vocalist

Mariella Gueli - Vocalist

Release notes

Black vinyl / 505mcn paper / 30 x 60 cm Insert with Liner Notes by Tony Higgins printed on 250 mcn Lenza Top Recycling Paper / Condensed interview to Spata Sisters and exclusive pictures.

Tracklist
A1I Remember Bill
A2Quiet Fire
A3Woodin'You
A4Spain
A5In A Keith Mood
B1All Blues
B2Doodlin
B3Things Ain't What They Used To Be
B4La Ronde
Credits
Giuseppe Costa
Acoustic Bass
Mimmo Cafiero
Congas
Marcello Pellitteri
Drums
Enzo Randisi
Keyboards, Percussion
Riccardo Randisi
Piano
Tony Higgins
Sleeve Notes
Sandro Palacino
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

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