Renzo Arbore and the Swing Maniacs
tonite! Renzo Swing!

Renzo Arbore, performer, musician and showman, renowned even abroad for his ingenious radio and television shows, is back with another old love of his: swing. 
The album "tonite! Renzo Swing!", just released by record label CGD East West, is a reworking of old Italian and foreign hits, from the early Forties  (with songs such as "Non sparate sul pianista") to Domenico Modugno. 
Swing, the music he listened to as a child along with his father, represents for Arbore a vital fundamental ingredient of life, even a way to label people: "with" or "without" swing, to define whether or not they had rhythm, quick reactions, grace, elegance, energy, drive, nerves taut but relaxed at the same time. 
The word, untranslatable in many other languages, is summed up in a famous song by the great Duke Ellington, one of the inventors of jazz: "It don't mean a thing if ain't got that swing", which Arbore translated into Italian in a somewhat macaronic but efficacious style with "Non significa un cavolo se non c'è swing".
The album sets out to allow young and old alike to discover or rediscover the irresistible charm of Italian swing. Music created to give enjoyment, on the heels of the dark days of war, music that refused to take itself too seriously and invented illogical, often metaphysical lyrics: like the songs by Alberto Rabagliati, Natalino Otto, Ernesto Bonino and Domenico Modugno.
"tonite! Renzo Swing!" offers a cavalcade of many different types of swing: there are wild numbers, some old-style songs, other more nostalgic, delicate songs, all accompanied by a mixture of great love and subtle irony. 
Just for the occasion, Arbore debuts as pianist in 6 of the 16 songs that make up the album - "Mamma mia mi piace il ritmo"; "Piove"; "C'est la vie"; "I quattro ciucci"; "La classe degli asini"; "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo" - for a total of 61 minutes of good music.
The performer is flanked by a selected group of musicians from the "Roman school" (the most active for jazz in Italy), authentic talents "with half his years, all convinced that rhythm is first and foremost expression, spirit, pauses, taste, high, lows, in short swing!".

Renzo Arbore and the Swing Maniacs
tonite! Renzo Swing!

Renzo Arbore, performer, musician and showman, renowned even abroad for his ingenious radio and television shows, is back with another old love of his: swing. 
The album "tonite! Renzo Swing!", just released by record label CGD East West, is a reworking of old Italian and foreign hits, from the early Forties  (with songs such as "Non sparate sul pianista") to Domenico Modugno. 
Swing, the music he listened to as a child along with his father, represents for Arbore a vital fundamental ingredient of life, even a way to label people: "with" or "without" swing, to define whether or not they had rhythm, quick reactions, grace, elegance, energy, drive, nerves taut but relaxed at the same time. 
The word, untranslatable in many other languages, is summed up in a famous song by the great Duke Ellington, one of the inventors of jazz: "It don't mean a thing if ain't got that swing", which Arbore translated into Italian in a somewhat macaronic but efficacious style with "Non significa un cavolo se non c'è swing".
The album sets out to allow young and old alike to discover or rediscover the irresistible charm of Italian swing. Music created to give enjoyment, on the heels of the dark days of war, music that refused to take itself too seriously and invented illogical, often metaphysical lyrics: like the songs by Alberto Rabagliati, Natalino Otto, Ernesto Bonino and Domenico Modugno.
"tonite! Renzo Swing!" offers a cavalcade of many different types of swing: there are wild numbers, some old-style songs, other more nostalgic, delicate songs, all accompanied by a mixture of great love and subtle irony. 
Just for the occasion, Arbore debuts as pianist in 6 of the 16 songs that make up the album - "Mamma mia mi piace il ritmo"; "Piove"; "C'est la vie"; "I quattro ciucci"; "La classe degli asini"; "Bongo, Bongo, Bongo" - for a total of 61 minutes of good music.
The performer is flanked by a selected group of musicians from the "Roman school" (the most active for jazz in Italy), authentic talents "with half his years, all convinced that rhythm is first and foremost expression, spirit, pauses, taste, high, lows, in short swing!".