Tiziana Ghiglioni, Giorgio Gaslini

Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini is a songbook album: the singer Tiziana Ghiglioni and the composer and pianist Giorgio Gaslini recorded fourteen tracks of his songs in Milan in early 1995, and Soul Note released it that year. Gaslini wrote words and music for most of them, and several are tributes in song form: Mingus Memory, Fellini Song, E' Quasi Mezzanotte, Mister Monk. The setting is chamber music more than jazz combo, with a string ensemble and harp arranged and conducted by Gaslini around voice, bass and drums. One song, Canto Alto, had appeared the year before as an instrumental on Gaslini's own Soul Note album Lampi = Lightnings.

The sessions took place on January 9 to 12 and February 1 to 6, 1995 at Mu Rec Studio in Milan, recorded by Paolo Falascone and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini, with Italian notes by Franco Fayenz. The strings are Michelangelo Cagnetta and Vitaliano De Rossi on violins, Stefano Montaldo on viola and Andrea Anzalone on cello, with Renato Geremia as solo violin and Valeria Madini Moretti on harp. Roberto Bonati plays bass and Giampiero Prina drums. Ghiglioni wrote the words of Pose De La Voix, and The Cats All Showed sets a text by Duke Ellington. The songs are short, most between two and five minutes, and several carry Italian titles with English translations, such as Forse Sei Tu?, Fiori and Virtuale O Attuale. On Presentazione Ghiglioni introduces the musicians by name over piano played inside the instrument. Appointment In New Orleans, the longest at over five minutes, and Millacamilla close the record.

This is the Soul Note CD 121297-2, first released in 1995.