RETURN TO ACAPULCO – Music for Hotels Vol.1 (2024)
Musics by Luca leggero, Deison, Stefano Giannotti, Rifrazione, Gabriele Gasparotti, Daniele Virgilio, Heimito Künst, Francesco Paolo Paladino, The Garden of Love, Massimo Giacon, Vittorio Nistri & The Deat Freaks Society, Open to the Sea, Arlo Bigazzi, Bi Nostalgia, Daniele Ciullini
THE MAN WE LOVE (2024)
Ma.Ra.Cash Records – MRC129
Franco Russo Award 2007-2023
15 years of Jazz and more in Trieste.
Musics by and performed by: Franco Russo, Giovanni Cigui, Alessandro Lanzoni, Daniele Raimondi, Enrico Zanisi, Gabriele V. Pribetti, Riccardo Pitacco, Popocatepetl Duo, Alberto Rizzarelli, Alba Nacinovich/Glauco Venier, Luca Bellodi, Emanuele Grafitti, Pietro Ricci, Eastern Border Quartet, Stefano Giannotti
Franco Russo was a jazz composer from Trieste, who was especially active in the area during the 1950s.
He moved to Rome in the 1970s and worked for RAI in several successful Italian television programmes, including Bambole non c’è una lira, La granduchessa e i camerieri, Il paese di Alice, Tutte le donne, Due come noi, Il Ribaltone, Gigi Proietti e i suoi fratelli, Magic Show, Studio ’80, Palcoscenico, Al Paradise (three editions), Buonasera Raffaella, Domenica In (with Raffaella Carrà), Fantastico 10, etc.
In 1976, in addition to his commitments with RAI, he began working as an accompanist pianist at the L. Recife Conservatory in Frosinone, and later at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.
From 2001 to 2004, he gave concerts in Bayreuth, Bolzano, Rome and Trieste, revisiting and interpreting the themes he had always loved: jazz from the 1950s, film music and everything he considered “musica bela”: that is to say, music that was well-composed.
He had planned two concerts in Bayreuth and Civitavecchia for the end of 2005, but passed away suddenly on 29 September 2005.
The Franco Russo Award, strongly supported by his wife Silvia Fabian Russo, was founded in 2007 as a competition at the RAI in Trieste, where it was awarded to the musicians Enrico Zanisi and Alessandro Lanzoni, well-known names in the world of contemporary jazz. The Franco Russo Award has been given since 2009, in collaboration with Gabriele Centis, the director of the Scuola di Musica 55, and the Trieste Loves Jazz festival, to support young musicians in the field of jazz with a scholarship.
This CD is a documentation of all the talents that have emerged from the Franco Russo Award in recent years, but it is also a tribute to the Maestro, whose spirit and voice linger cyclically between one piece and another.
SOUND CITY DAYS (2023)
Musics by Stefano Giannotti (Chorales for the Old New Europe – Excerpt), Dawn Scarfe, Tomomi Adachi, Michal Rataj, Christina Kubisch, Fero Kiraly, Denise Ritter, Pierre Jodlowski, Elisabeth Schimana, Marek Choloniewski, Vendula Guhova, Martyna Poznanska.
ZVUKOVA VLNA XII (2016)
Musics by (r), Thelema, Digitalis Purpurea, Ash Code, Noisebrigade, Jofef Klan, Maurizio Bianchi, Artico Cvlto, Wuornosaileen Bande, Getriebe Analogique, Stefano Giannotti (Chorales for the Old New Europe)
Compositions by: Alessandro Bosetti, Escoitar.org, Arsenije Jovanovic, Els Viaene, Tomáš Pálka, Sofia Kamayianni, José Iges & Concha Jerez, Hanna Hartman, Dmitriy Nikolaev, Stefano Giannotti (Dialoghi- Excerpt) , Anton Bruhin, Juraj Ďuriš, ProTon Sonic Art,
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Musics for clarinet solo performed by Guido Arbonelli, Eran El-Bar, Stefano Giannotti (RAP SECONDO), Alberto Bustos, Șerban Nichifor, León Biriotti, Ofer Ben-Amots, Fabrizio Festa, Vladimir Zubitsk, Thomas Briccetti , Gianluca Cangemi, Salvatore Enrico Failla, Alessandra Salvati, Antonio D’Antò, Marino Baratello, Carey Nutman, Jay Vosk, Steven L. Rosenhaus, Peter Machajdik, Augusto Valente, Dimitri Nicolau, Wolfgang Seierl, Luca Ortelli, Davide Zannoni, Raoul De Smet, Ken Steen, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Paolo Rosato, Bruno Strobl, Sergio Pallante, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Antonio Poce, Dinu Ghezzo, Athanasia Tzanou, Mauro Castellano, Jorge Martìnez-Ulloa, Mario Frendo, Giuseppe Lucca, Roberta Silvestrini, Gian Piero Cartocci, Vladimir Djambazov, Julian Martinez Fernandez, Robert Carl, Ivo Nilsson, Luca Belcastro, Hope Lee, Ludo Geloen, David Macbride.