Renato Sellani

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Renato Sellani's albums, compilations, and live albums discography with cataloged releases, editions, and credits

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Renato Sellani (born 8 January 1926, Senigallia, Ancona, Italy - died October 31, 2014, Milan, Italy) was an Italian jazz pianist and composer. In 1958, he left Ancona to live in Milan, where he had the opportunity to join Franco Cerri, Gil Cuppini and joined the Quintetto Basso-Valdambrini. Soon he started collaborating with great artists as Chet Baker, Lee Konitz and later Gerry Mulligan, Helen Merrill, Stéphane Grappelli, Buddy Collette, Herb Geller, Phil Woods and many others. His particular musical feeling let him to play with famous singers like Sarah Vaughan, Ginger Rogers, Lilian Terry, Shirley Bunnie Foy and Mina. He has also recorded a lot as a side man and as a soloist. He has been referred to as the "Hank Jones of Italy". The two share eternal youth and innate sweetness, both personal and musical. Another comparison is Tommy Flanagan because Sellani's taste is unerring and he has always been in high demand as an accompanist for singers. Sellani did not read music. His history is unusual (especially for an Italian jazz musician) because he started late. He was born in Senigallia, in the Marche region. He went to Rome to study political science at the University. His mother had been an opera soprano but he had never played music until he got hooked on jazz in the nightclubs of Rome. He says that he "went to listen every night" and began teaching himself piano at the home of a friend who owned an instrument. It was a few years after the end of World War II. Italy was emerging from the fascist era and even though there were not nearly so many good Italian jazz musicians as now, in one respect the scene was more vital: jazz and night life were more connected. There were many more places for musicians to play. Sellani must have been a natural, because soon he was playing in those nightclubs himself and by 1958 he was good enough to be Chet Baker's first pianist in Italy. The fact that Sellani is one of the most complete, most romantically seductive interpreters of standards in all of jazz is criminally underappreciated outside Italy. The good news is that he recorded prolifically for Paolo Piangiarelli's Italian label Philology, titles available in the United States. Sellani recorded over 40 albums for Philology, in solo and trio settings and also in small ensembles with a large cross-section of Italy's most important jazz instrumentalists and singers. Much of the Great American Songbook is memorably covered, as well as Italian popular songs and Sellani originals.

Discography

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Bossa Nova!

1963

Studio Album

Sellani Jazz Piano

1968

Studio Album

Jazz a confronto 9

1974

Studio Album

Tizia

1976

Studio Album

Renato Sellani & Gianni Basso

1977

Studio Album

Back To Jazz

1986

Studio Album

Doppio Passo

1988

Studio Album

Back to Jazz

1989

Studio Album

Speakin' Lowly

1994

Studio Album

Autoritratto

1997

Studio Album

Blue Eyes

1998

Studio Album

All The Way (The Soft Way)

1998

Studio Album

Tu Musica Divina

1998

Studio Album

Chapter One Italian Mood

2000

Studio Album

Volare

2000

Studio Album

Radio Days

2001

Studio Album

Isn’t It Romantic?

2001

Studio Album

Per Lucio Battisti

2001

Studio Album

Chet: La Music Infinita (Silloge Poetica Di Vittorio Franchini)

2001

Studio Album

Magic Sellani (The Art Of The Intro)

2001

Studio Album

Le cose inutili

2002

Studio Album

Á La France 2

2002

Studio Album

Just Friends

2002

Studio Album

There's No Greater Love - Love Songs And More (Duo & Quartet)

2002

Studio Album

L'Avventura Dell'Incontro 1

2003

Studio Album

Two for the Cities

2003

Studio Album

Thank You, George Gershwin

2003

Studio Album

Magicians At Work 2

2003

Studio Album

Plays Sellani

2004

Studio Album

Plays Monk

2005

Studio Album

Canzoni Stonate: Donaggio, Endrigo, Luttazzi & Dintorni

2005

Studio Album

Posia Do Brasil

2006

Studio Album

Sweet Ale

2007

Studio Album

Just Smile

2007

Studio Album

Io, Modugno

2007

Studio Album

Blues For Chet

2007

Studio Album

Amapola

2008

Studio Album

A Love Affair

2008

Studio Album

Body And Soul

2009

Studio Album

Lettera a Carosone

2009

Studio Album

Chopin - Piano Solo

2010

Studio Album

Quando m'innamoro... Sellani plays Livraghi

2011

Studio Album

The Latin Album

2013

Studio Album

Glad There Is You

2014

Studio Album

Sellani on Steinway

2016

Studio Album

Body and Soul

2017

Studio Album