Gianni Coscia

After having been a lawyer for thirty years, Coscia began focusing full time on music. He always has been dedicated to jazz and has won numerous awards. He has played with some of the best Italian musicians and with many others in the United States. For some time he has been searching, as European musician, to develop the remote values of cultural and popular tradition through “jazzistico” language.

In 1985 using a rythm and a string quartet he recorded Gianni Coscia, L’altra fisarmonica. For Coscia this was the first example of rivisiting a popular theme. (The cover note was done by Umberto Eco). In 1989 the LP La Briscola placed second in a contest organized by the magazine Musica Jazz. In 1990 with the Big Band of Giogio Gaslini he appared in the festival of Roccella Jonica. In 1991 with the RAI Symphonic Orchestra he took part in the opera “Ascent and Ruin of the city of Mahogony” by Kurt Weil. In the same year while playing Astor Piazzolla’s concerto for bandoneon and orchestra with the chamber orchestra of Pavia he presented one of his own compositions with the same orchestra. Also in 1991, to represent Italy, RAI invited him to go to the International Jazz Festival of Pori (Finland) and to the jazz Festival of Clusone (France). In addition, he partecipated in the festival Nuits de Nacre in Tulle (France), and took part in the RAI television transmission which honored Gorni Kramer.

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