Piero Piccioni was the only Italian musician to have played with Charlie Parker.
Composer of over 300 film soundtracks, television dramas, music for radio, ballet and orchestra, he began writing soundtracks in the 1950s. December 6 is the centenary of the birth (Turin 1921- Rome 2004) of the most “dandy” of Italian film music composers. The most elegant, in art as in life. On the centenary of the composer’s birth, Cam Sugar, in collaboration with Decca Records, celebrates his art by publishing a collection that draws on his more and less known works, alongside a precious group of songs that have remained unpublished to this day. Piero Piccioni – A Modern Gentleman: The refined and bittersweet sound of an italian Maestro is released on 3 December. A journey to rediscover the unique sound of the Turin composer: a soft, sensual and exciting “Piccioni’s touch” that is perceived in every composition he has worked on during his long career, ranging from jazz to bossa nova, funk, disco and to orchestral music. In the publication appear masterpieces such as Means Love, taken from the film “Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue sea of August” (for which Piccioni won the David di Donatello as best musician in 1975), Pop’s Lolly, from “3 Notti d ‘ love “, in whose session Gato Barbieri also appears on sax, or Papa Funky, from the soundtrack of” In viaggio con papa “, where Piccioni comments on the Deaf-Verdone relationship with a carefree blend of different genres, combining jazz, funk and rock together, with its unmistakable style. “On the centenary of his birth, we could not fail to dedicate a publication to Piero Piccioni, one of the best Italian composers of soundtracks – explains Filippo Sugar, President and CEO of the Sugar Group -. The project is part of a context that we will dedicate to the work of Maestro with the first digital releases scheduled for the next few months which will include many unreleased “. The beginnings in cinema date back to Michelangelo Antonioni who commissioned him to produce the music for the documentary of one of his pupils, Luigi Polidoro. The first film for which he wrote the music was “Il mondo le condanna” by Gianni Franciolini in 1952, followed by “The beach” by Alberto Lattuada in 1953.
Piccioni composes the music for 13 of Francesco Rosi’s 17 films and works a lot with Alberto Sordi in a long human and professional partnership. Among his most famous music, those of the films “The Mattei Case” by Francesco Rosi, “An Italian in America” and “Polvere di stelle” by Sordi. Many other directors have entrusted their films to his musical genius: Mario Monicelli, Alberto Lattuada, Luigi Comencini, Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli, Elio Petri, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Tinto Brass and Dino Risi among others. His also the soundtracks of “All in place and nothing in order” by Lina Wertmuller, and of “Il bell’Antonio” by Mauro Bolognini.
In addition to David, among the awards obtained in his long career also the Silver Ribbon for the soundtrack of “Salvatore Giuliano” by Francesco Rosi (1963), the Prix International Lumiere (1991), the Anna Magnani award (1975) and the Vittorio De Sica prize (1979). (HANDLE).
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