Maurizio Lama

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Maurizio Lama (born September 18, 1937 in Rome , † March 18, 1968 ) was an Italian jazz musician ( piano , also organ , arrangement ).

Lama worked in the jazz scenes of Turin and Milan a. a. with Enrico Rava (1960), Franco Mondini / Phil Woods (1960), Jacques Pelzer (1961), Gato Barbieri , Steve Lacy , Aldo Romano , Giorgio Azzolini , Gianni Sanjust , Franco Cerri , Franco Ambrosetti , Giorgio Buratti and Paolo Conte . he also worked as a studio musician. Lama died in 1968 at the age of thirty as a result of a traffic accident on the Autostrada dei Fiori.

In 1970 the album La Musica di Maurizio Lama was released posthumously ; the shoot - in addition to the original of it and Cerri the jazz standards Naima , solar, Stella by Starlight , a movie theme ( Cosa diresti se ) and the song number Semplicissimo with bruno lauzi - emerged 1967/68 at sessions during Lamas work at Studio 7 of Tito Fontana for the label Dire . Contributing musicians were Enrico Rava, Giancarlo Barigozzi (tenor saxophone), Carlo Milano (double bass), Aldo Romano or Giancarlo Pillot (drums), Ivo Meletti (guitar), Alberto Corvini (trombone), Giorgio Azzolini , Marco Ratti (double bass) and Bruno Lauzi (vocals). In the field of jazz, Lama was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1960 and 1968.

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  1. Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 1, 2017)