In the photo(by Riccardo Schwamenthal), trumpeter Nunzio Rotondo in the Rai Studios on Via Asiago 10 in Rome
In the early 1960s, Nunzio Rotondo, among the most important figures in the history of Italian jazz, devoted himself to radio broadcasting in the Rai Studios at Via Asiago 10 in Rome
The Italian trumpeter performed on the radio with a lineup that included: double bassist Maurizio Majorana(replaced in the same year by Dodo Goja), drummer Roberto Podio(replaced in the same year by Franco Mondini), young pianist Franco D’Andrea, who had arrived in Rome from Bologna,(replaced for a short time by Belgian pianist Joel Vandroogenbroeck) and, in some recording sessions, Gato Barbieri, a young Argentine saxophonist who had recently arrived in the capital
Contribution extracted from the book “The Italy of Jazz” by Adriano Mazzoletti
