Gianni Coscia

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Gianni Coscia (1998, Moers Festival )

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

Live and act

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

Luciano Berio dedicated hissequence XIII (chanson) , which he wrote for the accordion as a solo instrument, to the new music interpreter Teodoro Anzellotti on the one hand, but also to Coscia "one of the leading jazz, klezmer and tango accordionists, the poet of an Italy that has almost disappeared on the other . "

Discographic notes

  • Coscia / Trovesi Radici (Egea, 1994)
  • L 'Archiliuto (with Gianluigi Trovesi, Dino Piana, Andrea Dulbecco and the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia; Egea 2002)
  • 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 Sigurtà, Enzo Pietropaoli ; Giotto Music, 2007)
  • Tre Martelli & Gianni Coscia Ansema (Felmay, 2013)
  • Trovesi / Coscia: La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana (ECM 2019)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Gardmann ... and so a chord comforts us. On Berio'ssequence XIII (Chanson) for Accordion 1995/96
personal data
SURNAME Coscia, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian lawyer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Alessandria