Gianni Sanjust

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Gianni Sanjust (born June 23, 1934 in Rome ; † January 9, 2020 there ) was an Italian jazz musician ( clarinet , composition ), who also worked as a songwriter and music producer .

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Sanjust was born in Rome into a family of the Sardinian nobility, the Barons of Teulada. He played the clarinet as an autodidact and from 1952 to 1955 led the group Traditional Dixielanders together with Peppino De Luca . In 1955 he was a member of the Second Roman New Orleans Jazz Band , which was formed for RCA in 1957 and in which he was replaced by Lucio Dalla in 1960 . From 1960 to 1962 he played with Romano Mussolini , then moved to Milan, where he worked for the record company Ricordi , and then resumed his work as a jazz musician in Rome in 1977, while maintaining the record producer activity.

In his long career, Sanjust has worked with jazz musicians such as Chet Baker , Lee Konitz , Wild Bill Davison , Billy Butterfield , Ralph Sutton , Dan Barrett , Oscar Klein , Bruno Longhi, Enzo Randisi, Franco Ambrosetti , Gianni Basso , Riccardo Biseo, Dino Piana, Guido Pistocchi, Enrico Rava , Eddy Palermo and Carlo Loffredo. Sanjust was also responsible for the music of numerous film projects; one of his most famous compositions was the soundtrack of the second episode of Capriccio all'italiana , Il mostro della domenica (1968), directed by Stefano Vanzina . In the 1960s, Sanjust wrote the lyrics of Paolo Conte and Bobby Solo , and later also produced Franco Califano , Mia Martini and Mietta . With Antonello de Sanctis and Gabriele Varano he wrote Angeli nel Ghetto , a song that was interpreted by Nek . In the field of jazz he was involved in 41 recording sessions between 1957 and 2010, according to Tom Lord . a. with Lino Patruno , Red Pellini and Alfredo Ferrario.

Discographic notes

  • Gianni Sanjust Middle Jazz Sextet (Ricordi, 1962), with Paolo Conte, Maurizio Lama , Giancarlo Verde , Paolo Pendino
  • Riccardo Biseo, Gianni Sanjust, Mauro Battisti, Carlo Battisti: Napoli Jazz Sound (2009)
  • Alfredo Ferrario Meets Gianni Sanjust (2010)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Il jazz italiano dice addio a Gianni Sanjust: suonò con Chet Baker e scrisse testi per Conte, Solo, Califano e Mia Martini. Il Messagero, January 9, 2020, accessed January 10, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Sanjust, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz musician (clarinet, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2020
Place of death Rome