Name Gianluigi Trovesi Music director I Like to Work (Mobbing) | Role Soloist | |
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Albums Gianluigi Trovesi All'opera, Round About Weill, Around Small Fairy Tales, Frere Jacques ‑ Round A, A Midsummer's Dream Similar People |
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Gianluigi Trovesi (born 1944) is an Italian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer.
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- Gianluigi trovesi civica jazz band hercab
- Andrea centazzo gianluigi trovesi live 1986
- As leader
- As contributor
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A native of Nembro near Bergamo in Lombardy, he studied harmony and counterpoint under Vittorio Fellegara. Since then he has been a major player in the Italian and European (free) jazz scene. He also teaches clarinet and saxophone in Italy. He has won various Italian jazz awards.

In 1978 Trovesi won the first prize in the Italian jazz competition for saxophone and clarinet, landing a permanent job in the Milan Radio Big band (until 1993). After a concert in Bergamo with Giorgio Gaslini's Sextet, the influential European producer Joachim-Ernst Berendt called him for his Clarinet Summit production, an all-star group with clarinet soloists, John Carter, Perry Robinson, Theo Jorgensmann and Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky.

In the 1990s he formed his renowned octet, with Pino Minafra on trumpet. The first record of the group (From G To G, 1992) won the Italian Top Jazz poll and five stars in Down Beat. The octet's Les Hommes Armes (1996) was voted Best Record of the Year and the Trovesi Octet best Italian Jazz Group in the Musica Jazz Italian Top Jazz Poll (1993, 1996; Trovesi already won in 1988 as best musician). Those records are characterized by the meeting of the learned classical and contemporary music, from Renaissance music to serialism, and the Italian folk, in a context of jazz improvisation. During the years the Octet went through important changes in the lineup.
In 1999 Trovesi composed "Round About A Midsummer's Dream", a suite whose inspiration comes from Shakespeare's mention, of the "Bergamasque" dance. The music is performed by a nonet based on three Trios: a jazz trio with sax, bass and drums, a classical string trio, and a folk trio with accordion and tamburello.

He has toured, recorded and performed with renowned improvisers, jazz musicians and musical experimenters, including Anthony Braxton, Misha Mengelberg, Horace Tapscott, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Manfred Schoof, Mark Dresser, Han Bennink, Barre Phillips, Tony Oxley, and Gunter Sommer. Trovesi is also member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra and a duo with accordionist Gianni Coscia.
Andrea centazzo gianluigi trovesi live 1986
As leader
As contributor
Documentaries
Songs
Vaghissimo Ritratto
In cerca di cibo
Her Cab
C'era una strega - c'era una fata
Sia Maledetta L'Acqua
From G to G
Puppet Theatre
Roccellanea
Ambulat hic armatus homo
Tanghesi
Variazioni su Ose Shalom
Animali In Marcia
Parton le barcarole
Tangoffenbach
Turluru : Turluru
Piff - paff - pouff / La Duchessa nei caraibi
Ein Taifun!Tifone ? No - pioggerella!
La voix
Beguine del fauno
Metamorfosi Pour seduire
Le jugement de Paris / Ma! Non so!
Sognando Helene / Oui! C'est un reve
Minuetto / Olympia
Sei Italiano? / No! Je suis Bresilien
La Duchessa della Czarda
Ah! Que les hommes sont betes / Mon Dieu - mon Dieu
Ouverture / Un Americano a Troia
Ach - bedenken Sie - Herr Jack O'Brien
Pinocchio - in groppa al tonno
Tristezze di Fra´ Martino
Labirinto
Little Penny