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Big Night Jive Orchestra

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La Big Night Jive Orchestra, nata nel 1999 con l’intento di riproporre la musica Italo Americana del dopoguerra, prende il nome dal film The Big Night, diretto e interpretato nel 1996 da Stanley Tucci, che celebra in uno scenario surreale e tipicamente italoamericano. l’atteso e mai avvenuto arrivo del grande trombettista e cantante Louis Prima in occasione della grande serata di apertura di un ristorante italiano. 

Prendendo spunto dal mito di questo grande genio degli anni Cinquanta, I Big Night Jive ripercorrono e ripropongono i grandi successi del repertorio di Louis Pirma, spesso in duetto con sua moglie Keely Smith, e di quella generazione di attori e cantanti tra cui spiccano Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett e Dean Martin.

La piccola orchestra formata da sette elementi, la voce solista, la ritmica di accompagnamento e una sezione di tre fiati, propone una fusione tra jazz e musica da ballo, il cosiddetto Jive, e ha conquistato una notevole popolarità nella capitale e in tutta Italia collaborando negli anni con Luciano De Crescenzo, Lino Patruno, Franco Nero, Renzo Arbore e Greg.

BRANI

  1. Ain’t That a Kick Out of You

  2. Whatever Lola Wants

  3. Everybody Loves Somebody

  4. Torna a Surriento

  5. A Foggy Day

  6. Tiger Rag

  7. When My Baby Smiles at Me

  8. Theme from New York New York

  9. Sing Sing Sing

  10. What a Wonderful World

  11. Buonasera Signorina

  12. Oh Lady Be Good

  13. Monalisa

COMPONENTI

Alessandro Contini – voce
Elisabetta Antonini – voce
Pierluca Bonfrate – voce
Carlo Capobianchi – tromba, arrangiamenti
Andrea Pedroni – tenor sax, alto sax, arrangiamenti
Walter Fantozzi – trombone
Paolo Bernardi – piano, arrangiamenti

Renato Gattone – basso
Gianluca Perasole – batteria

VIDEO

As times goes by

That old black magic

Volare

Just a gigolò / I Ain’t got nobody

Potenza dello swing