Blues to bop
Nick the Nightfly & Montecarlo Nights Orchestra
With Sarah Jane Morris and Franco Amrosetti
Direction and arrangements of Gabriele Comeglio

Nick the Nightfly, Sarah Jane Morris, solo voices
Franco Ambrosetti, solo trumpet
Emilio Soana, lead trumpet
Sergio Orlandi, Umberto Marcandalli, Pippo Colucci, trumpets
Mauro Parodi, Claudio Barbieri, Angelo Rolando, Giovanni di Stefano, trombones
Giulio Visibelli, Maurizio Meggiorini, Paolo Barbieri, Marco Gotti, Ubaldo Busco, sax
Claudio Angeleri, piano
Alessandro Gallo, guitar
Marco Esposito, 5 strings electric bass guitar
Tony Arco, drums

Nick the Nightfly and Montecarlo Nights Orchestra present themselves to the audience of “Notti di Luce” with an exclusive production, after the one of the last year dedicated to swing and Frank Sinatra. The concert will start from American black blues to go to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gilles’s be bop going through Horace Silver’s soul jazz experience. Scottish singer Nick the Nightfly will be joined by Irish singer Sarah Jane Morris who has already supported Nick in several concerts and festivals all around Italy and by the well-known trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti. Arrangements are made by Gabriele Comeglio.

Nick the Nightfly
Nick – whose birth-name is Malcom Mac Donalds - was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but has been living in Italy since 1982. He started in England, in London, as a musician, but has always gone in for swing playing together with Bob Mintzer and Pat Metheny. He has launched and presented Montecarlo Nights for ten years, the first night radio programme in Italy which goes ahead searching for new kinds of music and trend. In 1995 Nick was awarded with the important “Telegatto”- prize for “Best voice of the Italian radio night”. In 1996 and 1998 he won twice the “Bybloscar”- prize for best radio Dj in the best radio TV programme. With his band, Montecarlo Nights Orchestra, Nick has recently sung at many festivals, among which festivals in Turin, Naples, Palermo and taken part to the Umbria Jazz Festival.

Sarah Jane Morris
A great expert of the world of blues and jazz music, Sarah Jane Morris started her career in the early ’80s. She’s an artist which is well-known in Italy thanks to her first place at San Remo Music Festival with Riccardo Cocciante.
Her professional repertory has changed a great deal through the years. She’s well-known for her remake of Thelma Houston’s hit “Don’t leave me this way”.
She has ranged from pop to jazz music and “author-s song”.
Her collaboration with New York guitar player Marc Ribot is nowadays of very great importance in her artistic background.

Gabriele Comeglio
Graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Gabriele Comeglio, musician and arranger, is one of the few Italian jazz musicians who have played at Milan La Scala Theater and at New YorkTown Hall.
He ranges from jazz to pop music.
To his credit his arrangements written for several albums of Mina.

Franco Ambrosetti
He drew attention to himself during the 1960s winning the Wien international contest whose chairman was Friederich Gulda.
There he started his career first supported by his father Flavio and then going as solo artist.
Considered by Miles Davis his own heir, Franco Ambrosetti is one of the best solo trumpeters worldwide.