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Artist
Piero Piccioni
12+ albums
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about
Piero Piccioni (December 6, 1921, Turin, Italy - July 23, 2004, Rome, Italy) His mother’s maiden name was Marengo, hence his pseudonym Piero Morgan, which he adopted until 1957. When he was growing up his father, Attilio Piccioni, (a prominent member of the Christian Democratic Party with the post-war Italian government) would frequently take him to hear concerts at the E.I.A.R. Radio Studios in Florence. Having listened to jazz throughout his childhood (he dearly loved Art Tatum and Charlie Parker) and without attending studies at the Conservatoire Academy of Music, Piero Piccioni became an extremely talented self-taught musician. Piccioni made his radio debut with his 013 Big Band in 1938, but only returned on air after the liberation of Italy in 1944. His 013 was the first Italian jazz band to be broadcast in Italy after the fall of fascism. He was deeply influenced in his use of jazz by 20th century classical composers and American cinematography. Amongst his favourites were Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford and Alex North. He began writing songs of his own and was soon able to get some of his works published by Carisch editions. Piero Piccioni came into contact with the movie world in Rome during the fifties, when he was a practicing lawyer and was securing movie rights for Italian distributors such as Titanus and De Laurentiis. During that time, Michelangelo Antonioni had called Piero to score a documentary film directed by Luigi Polidoro, one of
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Camille 2000 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Colpo Rovente - Red Hot Shot (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Amore Mio Aiutami (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Quelle strane occasioni
Il medico della mutua (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Il Dio sotto la pelle - God Under The Skin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Anna Karenina (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peccato Mortale (Colonna sonora originale)
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Un tassinaro a New York (A Taxi Driver In New York) [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
Playgirl '70 (Colonna sonora originale)
C'era una volta (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Incontri Proibiti (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)