First time officially reissue, sourced from the original master tapes in a new edition, the Milan based imprint Dialogo, returns with this compilation published in Italy by RCA Victor in 1962 - a precious historical document of some important international jazz and pop artists who came to Italy and left their marks, influencing the generations of those golden years.
It contains
***Chet Baker with Ennio Morricone's Orchestra, with "Il Mio Domani" (My Tomorrow) and "So Che Ti Perderò" (I Know That I'll Loose You) two recordings of works composed and sung for the first time in Italian by one of the most important worldwide trumpet “Golden Trumpet” and singer “Voice Of Angel” jazz artist. ***Helen Merrill with “Estate” (Summer) and “Nessuno Al Mondo” (Noboby In The World), two recordings sung for the first time in Italian. She agreed to record two 'light' songs because the Orchestra that performed them was conducted by Armando Trovajoli, a qualified exponent of Italian jazz and an extreme modernist. ***Paul Anka with Ray Ellis Orchestra, Perez Prado and His Orchestra, Neil Sedaka and Stan Applebaum Orchestra

A1 - Perez Prado e la sua Orchestra - Arrivederci Roma – Chunga
A2 - Helen Merrill with Armando Trovajoli e la sua Orchestra - Nessuno al Mondo
A3 - Paul Anka with Orchestra diretta da Ray Ellis - Ogni Giorno
A4 - Chet Baker with Ennio Morricone e la sua Orchestra - Il Mio Domani
A5 - Neil Sedaka with Stan Applebaum Orchestra - Esagerata (Little Devil)
A6 - Antonio Prieto with His Orchestra - Papà
B1 - Paul Anka with Orchestra diretta da Ray Ellis - Voglio Sapere (I’d Like To Know)
B2 - Antonio Prieto with His Orchestra - Baciami
B3 - Neil Sedaka with Stan Applebaum Orchestra - Un Giorno Inutile (I Must Be Dreaming)
B4 - Helen Merrill with Armando Trovajoli e la sua Orchestra - Estate
B5 - Chet Baker with Ennio Morricone e la sua Orchestra - So Che Ti Perderò
B6 - Perez Prado e la sua Orchestra - Guaglione More

TRACKLIST:
A1. L'Uomo e la Città
A2. Città Amica
A3. Città' Frenetica
A4. Quartieri Alti
A5. Viadotti
A6. Piazza Di Siena
B1. L'Uomo e la Città
B2. Rete Urbana
B3. Centrali Termiche
B4. Centrali Termiche
B5. Città Amica
B6. L'Uomo e la Città
B7 Suoni Della Città

In the intricate panorama of Italian library music, the themes of city, factories, metropolis, work,
urbanization and technology have always been among the most fascinating (and used), relying on dozens of
fundamental records by composers such as Alessandro Alessandroni, Farlocco, Gerardo Iacoucci, A.R.
Luciani, Narassa and many others. The attempt to provide a plausible soundtrack to a continuously and
rapidly ever-changing world, especially in the hectic seventies, has often produced masterpieces that
combined avant-garde techniques with sounds, risky experimentation with easy-listening songs, the traffic
chaos and assembly lines with the silence of the night, the end of the work shift with Sunday’s rest.
Piero Umiliani’s L’Uomo e la Città perfectly fits into this rich and varied field, an album where our Man is
accompanied by a jazz musicians sublime parade that includes celebrities like Bruno Tommaso, Oscar
Valdambrini, Dino Piana and Nino Rapicavoli, here delivering the most of a sound that is highly based on the
richness of the wind instruments and on the rhythm of the Umiliani-led ensemble.
L’Uomo e la Città is a less risky effort when compared to other releases by Piero Umiliani, but that’s in
favor of an extraordinary jazz tightness (Rete Urbana, Quartieri Alti, Città Frenetica), but the wish to amaze
appears when least expected in the two excellent renditions of Centrale Termica and Suoni della Città, among
the best tracks of the album. More

Released in 1975, "Continente Nero" is the perfect flip side of "Africa" (1972), an album that significantly expanded Piero Umiliani's music perspectives, incorporating partially explored rhythmic variations already used in "Percussioni ed Effetti Speciali" and "To-Day's Sound". It does so by taking inspiration from a tradition that starts from the divine Fela Kuti and reaches the amateur and field recordings by musicologists such as David Toop, but also from the Afro- American jazz history of Art Ensemble of Chicago, John Coltrane, Max Roach and hundreds of others More

Piero Umiliani's Africa was released in January 1972, a years-ahead record that includes the prog-tinged black rhythm of "Africa To-Day", the 'fourth world' inspiration coming from Jon Hassell's "Green Dawn", the 'exotic' references in Martin Denny's style ("Lonely Village", "Echos"), the electronic new wave (hearing is believing!) of "Sortilège", the folk music ("Rite", "Folk-Tune"). An incredible album summarizes sounds and styles that will make the fortune of much more celebrated and popular musicians and artists. More

ITALIAN JAZZ-ROCK HIDDEN GEM - 1ST REISSUE EVER ON VINYL! Spirale were an Italian quintet from Rome who released a single eponymous album in 1974, a jazz-rock effort consisting of just four tracks, most of which taken by the 13-minute long "Cabral, Anno 1" and the marvellous 17-minute "Peperoncino (Cose vecchie, cose nuove)". "Spirale" is an incredibly balanced and flowing record that sounds still fresh and inspired even today, characterized by that particular Mediterranean flavour that only Italian musicians were able to obtain. "Spirale" is now finally reissued on Dialogo record label in a faithful restored version that will finally satisfy any collectors who have waited for years for this beauty to see the light again! More