[Dixielandjazz] Romano Mussolini

[Stephen G Barbone]

On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Marek Boym wrote:

> On at least two of those clips Mussolini is featured with OKOM bands
> (even if some listmates would describe the high notes of the trumpet
> as "circus music").  But usually he plays much more modern style, but
> still coherent and swinging.  No someon whose records I'd wish to buy
> and hear re;eatedly, but a musician I would not mind hearing in a bar
> or a club.
> Cheers

Yes indeed, Marek. Mussolini told Martha and me on Capri in 1962 that  
his favorite jazz pianist and a major influence was Oscar Peterson. We  
met him because we had gone to Capri to see my cousin, Francesco, a  
jazz trumpet player, who was gigging with a small group there that  
summer. Mussolini  was the pianist in that group.

BTW, did you know that his father, IL Duce, Benito Mussolini was a  
very good violinist?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband