Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (Original Soundtrack) '2024/1964

Tracks list

Cam Sugar UME is proud and excited to present the first full-album release of
the long-forgotten soundtrack composed by Armando Trovajoli for Piero
Vivarelli’s 1964 movie Il Vuoto.
 
Rightly considered by many to be a key figure, if not the key figure, in the
history of Italian jazz, Trovajoli was responsible for fostering an appreciation
and understanding of jazz among the generation of music listeners and musicians
raised under Mussolini and Fascist nationalism. His outstanding work as a
pianist, composer and conductor contributed immensely to the popularization of
the genre among the general public and to the reduction of institutional bias
against it.
 
The collaboration between Trovajoli and Vivarelli did not happen by chance. The
latter, now regarded as one of Italy’s “kings of the
B’s” for his work in the ‘exotic-erotic’ genre (IL DIO
SERPENTE, CODICE D'AMORE ORIENTALE, etc.) was a great music expert, a skilled
talent scout for the Italian music industry, and a true lover of jazz.
 
Most of Trovajoli’s score for IL VUOTO has a refined smoothness that is
clearly reminiscent of cool jazz – many tracks on the soundtrack are
performed by a sextet featuring Trovajoli himself on piano, Carlo Zoffoli on
vibraphone, Berto Pisano on double bass, and Gino Marinacci on baritone sax and
flute, Enzo Grillini on electric guitar, Berto Pisano on double bass, and Sergio
Conti on drums and percussion. At the same time, Trovajoli explores other jazz
styles or sub-styles in faster, more rhythm-oriented tracks influenced by bossa
nova, samba, and even rock’n’roll, where instruments like drums
and percussion, electric guitar, or flute take center stage.
 
This stylistic variety demonstrates both the maestro’s versatility as a
composer and the fine skills of the musicians who performed on the soundtrack.
Like Trovajoli, they were all pioneers of Italian jazz and played in Italy's
very first ‘institutional’ jazz orchestra: the Orchestra di Musica
Leggera of the RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company), formed under
Trovajoli’s leadership in 1956 and credited as “his
orchestra” in public performances and in the album The Beat Generation
(RCA Italiana, 1960).
 
By making available for the first time ever almost all of the music recorded by
Trovajoli for IL VUOTO, this LP fills an important gap in the maestro’s
discography. Most importantly, it offers further insight not only into the
history of Italian jazz, but also into the penetration of the genre into Italian
film music, which was possible thanks to Trovajoli’s mastery as a
composer and to the virtuosity of the pioneering musicians who performed in his
orchestra.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Night jazz per
vibrafono) (4:42) 
1.02 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Night jazz sax
baritono) (2:58) 
1.03 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Swing per sax
baritono) (4:59) 
1.04 - Armando Trovajoli - Estasi (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack) (4:03) 
1.05 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Cordovox in
6/8) (1:23) 
1.06 - Armando Trovajoli - Evasione (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack) (2:45) 
1.07 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Ritmico per
voce maschile) (1:17) 
1.08 - Armando Trovajoli - Frenesia (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack) (5:21) 
1.09 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Twist) (1:09) 
1.10 - Armando Trovajoli - Il Vuoto (From "Il Vuoto" Soundtrack / Blues per
organo) (4:50) 

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