Gianni Coscia

Gianni Coscia ( born January 23, 1931 in Alessandria ) is an Italian lawyer and accordion player who has emerged especially in the area of modern jazz.

Life and work

Coscia studied law at the University of Padua and then worked thirty years as a lawyer before he made his hobby his profession. His debut album Gianni Coscia - L' altra fisarmonica he laid before 1985. In 1990 he worked with the big band of Giorgio Gaslini; In 1991, he led on along with the RAI Radio Symphony Orchestra Brecht / Weill's " Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ". Between 1992 and 1994 he was several times with Milva on a concert tour, including in Japan. In 1993 he joined the " Nuovo Quartetto ", which consisted only of accordion players ( with Richard Galliano, Marcel Azzola, Antonello Salis ). Since 1995, he went regularly in duo with Gianluigi Trovesi Europe on tour and put in this line, in addition to the two jazz standards took up the folklore of the northern Mediterranean and Weill's compositions, several albums before. He also took part in the project Banda Sonora by Battista Lena and worked in a trio with Enrico Rava and percussionist Naco. With Fred Ferrari, he wrote the music for the film Altri uomini Claudio Bonivento. He also worked with Gabriele Mirabassi, Roberto Dani, Arrigo Cappelletti and Marcus Woelfle.

Luciano Berio devoted his Sequenza XIII ( Chanson ), which he wrote for the accordion as a solo instrument, on the one hand the new music artist Teodoro Anzellotti, on the other hand also Coscia " one of the leading jazz, klezmer and Tangoakkordeonisten, the poet of an almost vanished Italy. "

Disco Graphical Notes

  • L ' Archiliuto ( with Gianluigi Trovesi, Dino Piana, Andrea Dulbecco and the Orchestra da Camera di Enea Nembro Salmeggia; Egea )
  • Coscia / Trovesi Radici ( Egea, 1994)
  • Max De Aloe / Coscia / Massimo Moriconi / Stefano Bagnoli L'anima delle cose ( Abeat, 2003)
  • Coscia / Trovesi Round About Weill (ECM 2005)
  • Frescobaldi Per Noi ( with Dino Piana, Fulvio SigurtÃ, Enzo Pietropaoli; Giotto Music, 2007)
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