Napoli Centrale in 2010

Napoli Centrale is an Italian jazz-rock group, founded in Naples in 1975.

History

The musical project was founded by musicians James Senese and Franco Del Prete, who following the disbandment of their previous R&B band The Showmen (later known as Showmen 2) wanted to pursue a different musical path.[1] The style of the band is characterized by a mixture between rock, folk, jazz and blues, with lyrics in Neapolitan language which often deal with social themes.[1] The group got an immediate commercial and critical success with its first eponymous album and its first single "Campagna", representing a significant exception to the other successful Italian bands of the time, either dedicated to progressive rock or characterized by a melodic and romantic repertoire.[2]

Shortly later the release of their first album, bassist Tony Walmsley and keyboardist Mark Harris left the band to join Il Rovescio della Medaglia, and it started a period of numerous lineup changes, which also briefly saw Pino Daniele as bassist.[2] In the early 1980s Senese pursued a solo career, putting the band on hyatus.[1][2] Senese reconstituted the band in the early 1990s, with Savio Riccardi, Gigi De Rienzo and Agostino Marangolo.[1] In 1992 they released their comeback album Jesceallah, in which Art Ensemble of Chicago members Lester Bowie and Don Moye collaborated.[1]

Personnel

Discography

Album
  • 1975 – Napoli Centrale (Dischi Ricordi, SMRL 6159)
  • 1976 – Mattanza (Dischi Ricordi, SMRL 6187)
  • 1977 – Qualcosa ca nu’ mmore (Dischi Ricordi, SMRL 6224)
  • 1992 – Jesceallah (Blue Angel, BAR 40592)[3]
  • 1994 – ’Ngazzate nire (Blue Angel, FDM 70494)[3]
  • 2001 – Zitte! Sta venenn’ ’o mammone (Sony, PDG 5030512)
  • 2016 – 'O sanghe (Ala Bianca/Warner Music, RNR 128554132-2)
  • 2018 – Aspettanno ‘o tiempo (River Nile Records, RNR 128554197–1)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Enrico Deregibus. "Napoli Centrale". Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 329. ISBN 8809756258.
  2. 1 2 3 Roberto Ruggeri. "Napoli Centrale". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1172-3.
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