Giorgio Gaslini

Perhaps one of the most prominent and influential Italian jazz music artists, pianist/composer Giorgio Gaslini’s music wed components of 20th hundred years classical music (serialism, aleatory) with avant-garde jazz and pop idioms; he termed his broadly encompassing design “total music.” Gaslini had taken piano lessons as a kid and began executing at age 13. He produced and documented using a jazz trio at age 16, with 19 he performed on the International Jazz Celebration in Florence. Gaslini went to the Conservatorio in his city of Milan, learning composition, performing, and piano. Gaslini’s passions were mixed; in the later ’50s and early ’60s he led a jazz quartet, constructed for film, and led many Italian symphony orchestras. Gaslini also composed for movie theater and ballet; his functions have already been performed at such esteemed venues as La Scala in Milan, the Rome Opera Theater, as well as the Roman Theater in Verona. Of his 40-plus film soundtracks, most widely known is normally his rating for Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte. Being a jazz musician, Gaslini performed and documented numerous leading American avant-gardists, including Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd, and Don Cherry. Gaslini was a dynamic educator, teaching at Santa Cecilia Academy of Music in Rome (1972-1973) with the Giuseppe Verdi Academy of Music in Milan (1979-1980). He was also the writer of two books on jazz. In 1991, he founded the jazz ensemble Grande Orchestra Nazionale. From 1991-1995, he made up a set of suites for the Italian Instabile Orchestra: “Pierrot Solaire” and “Skies of European countries.” Gaslini documented for the Spirit Notice and Leo brands, amongst others. The Italian review Musica Jazz once devoted an entire concern to his function — an indicator from the esteem where he happened in his indigenous property. Giorgio Gaslini passed away in July 2014 in Parma, Italy; he was 84 years of age.