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Artist:	SCHIANO, MARIO
Title:	On The Waiting-List
Label:	ATAVISTIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ALP 235CD

"The legendary 'godfather of free music' offers his finest album on John Corbett's Unheard Music Series; ultra-rare Italian answer to the Art Ensemble of Chicago, recorded in Rome 1973. Mario Schiano is one of the founding figures of free music in Italy, an intense and often uproariously funny alto saxophonist, bandleader and high-conceptualist who has been spreading his own postmodern eclecticism since the early '60s. Later in that decade, Schiano co-founded Gruppo Romano Free Jazz, and he's been the Godfather of free music in Italy ever since. Recorded in Rome in 1973, On The Waiting-List is one of the rarest items in Schiano's extensive -- and by-and-large impossible to find -- discography. Originally released on the King Universal label, from Naples, and produced by Toni Cosenza, it is virtually unknown outside of its homeland (mighty obscure there, too...). An outstanding creative jazz outing, the record features Schiano on alto as well as organ and voice (on the extra-outre track 'All It Takes'), with other luminaries of the Italian jazz scene."

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