PINO MINAFRA / THE BEGINNINGS

Title: Lost Tapes Vol. 21 Pino Minafra / Gli esordi
Groups: various
Compositions: various
Years: 1978-1988 © 2024
Graphics: 3Heads Agency
Notes: Livio Minafra
Recorders: Mimmo Fiore, Antonio Di Meo, Rudy Rabassini, Felice Cacucci, Pino Caldarola
Label: Angapp Music – It
Produced by: Livio Minafra

Lost Tapes vol. 21 Pino Minafra, gli esordi the beginnings ’70 & ‘80

New Franco G5

Franco G.5: percussion, voice
Tony Sorrentino: piano, keyboards, voice
Pino “Pepe” Minafra: trumpet, flugelhorn
Tommy Baldassarre: tenor sax, flute
Mark Pellegrini: drums
Alex Paolicchi: guitar
Paul Black: electric bass, flute

Place and date: Firenze (Italy), Natali Studios, January 27, 1978

Ye-Me-Le African Fantasy (Tony Sorrentino- Luís Carlos Vinhas) 4:47

assolo: Minafra

Doctor Two and friends

Mimì Laganara: accordion
Tonino Minervini: piano
Bruno Belsito: bass and hammond organ
Mauro Dell’Olio: drums
guests Pino Minafra trumpet, Franco Lorusso electric guitar and flute

Place and date: Bisceglie (Italy), Sporting Club, July 22, 1978. Recorded by Antonio Di Maio (Dell’Olio Archive).

• 32 battute in Fa (Domenico Laganara) 3:30

assolos: Minervini, Minafra, Laganara

• Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart) 6:51

assolos: Lorusso, Minafra, Laganara

• Tea for two (Vincent Youmans-Irving Caesar) 3:57

assolos: Laganara, Lorusso, Minafra, Minervini

• Moonglow (Mills Irving-De Lange Edgar-Hudson Will) 5:35

assolos: Lorusso, Minafra, Laganara

Jazz Studio Orchestra

Trumpets: Pino Minafra, Carlo Giliberti, Giovanni Ventrella, Pino Caldarola, Pasquale Benedetto
Trombones: Franco Mastro, Michele Lomuto, Domenico Cattedra, Angelo Palmisano, Rocco Paparella
Saxes: Tonino Di Maso, Nicola Scarola, Angelo Perrino, Nicola Nitti, Silvio Terenzio
Piano: Willy Calabrese
Double bass: Felice Cacucci
Drums and conductor: Paolo Lepore
Announcer: Lilian Terry

Place and date: Bari (Italy), Teatro Petruzzelli, April 5, 1978. Recorded by Felice Cacucci.

• Bari 74 (Felice Cacucci) 4:07

assolos: Calabrese, Lomuto, Minafra

Jazz Studio Orchestra

Trumpets: Pino Minafra, Pino Caldarola, Martino Chiarulli, Carlo Giliberti, Giovanni Ventrella, Tolve Potito
Trombones: Franco Mastro, Rocco Paparella, Michele Lomuto, Domenico Cattedra, Angelo Palmisano
Saxes: Tonino Di Maso, Nicola Scarola, Angelo Perrino, Gino Sannoner, Nicola Nitti, Silvio Terenzio
Piano: Willy Calabrese, Nico Esposito
Double bass: Felice Cacucci, Armando De Cillis
Guitar: Gianni Giannotti
Drums: Pino Varracchio
Conductor: Paolo Lepore
Announcer: Armando De Cillis

 

Place and date: Ruvo di Puglia (Italy), Cinema Vittoria, January 22, 1979. Recorded by Mimmo Fiore.

• One bass hit (Gillespie-Brown-Fuller) 6:09

soloists: Cacucci, Minafra

• Dedication (Thad Jones) 5:22

soloist: Minafra; assolo: Di Maso

• Round about midnight (Thelonius Monk) 6:18

soloist: Minafra

Quintetto della Jazz Studio

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Trombone: Michele Lomuto
Piano: Nico Esposito
Double bass: Armando De Cillis
Drums: Paolo Lepore

• Moon mood (Nico Esposito) 4:29

soloist: Minafra

• The blues walk (Chris Woods) 5:11

assolos: Minafra, Lomuto, Esposito

Place and date: Ruvo di Puglia, Cinema Vittoria, January 22, 1979. Recorded by Mimmo Fiore.

Germinario/Minafra/Pino Caldarola

Trumpets: Pino Minafra, Pino Caldarola
Pipe organ: Don Nicola Germinario

Places and date: Ruvo di Puglia (Italy), Chiesa del Purgatorio, December 24, 1978 – 6 a.m. Recorded by Mimmo Fiore.

• Capricci armonici op. 4 nr. 2 in Do maggiore (Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani) 5:16

soloist: Minafra

• Ouverture per due trombe ed organo (Nicola Germinario) 1:37

soloists: Minafra, Caldarola

Ottoni della Camerata Musicale Rubastina

Trumpets: Pino Minafra, Pino Caldarola, Luciano Palmitessa, Martino Chiarulli
Trombones: Giuseppe Scolamacchia, Nino Bisceglie, Mimmo Chimienti, Rocco “Zi Kél” Paparella
French Horn: Pasquale Di Pinto
Places and date: Ruvo di Puglia (Italy), Chiesa del Purgatorio, December 24, 1978 – 6 a.m. Recorded by Mimmo Fiore.

• Canzon trigesima a 8 (Orindio Bartolini) 2:56
• Canzon IX (Giovanni Gabrieli) 3:03

Syntagma Musicum

Brass ensemble as above. Conductor: Domenico Molinini

Places and date: Ruvo di Puglia (Italy), Chiesa del Purgatorio, November 23, 1978. Recorded by Pino Caldarola.

• Canzon vigesimaquinta a 8 (Gioseffo Guami) 2:44
• Canzon trigesimaseconda a 8 (Bastian Chilese) 4:03
• Ricercar del duodecimo tuono (Andrea Gabrieli) 2:24

Praxis rehearsals

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Trombone: Michele Lomuto

• Cenerentola (Pino Minafra) 7:37

assolos: Lomuto, Minafra

Place and date: Bari, 1981.

Praxis

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Sax: Roberto Ottaviano
Trombone: Michele Lomuto
Piano: Pippo Fumaroli
Electric bass: Ilario De Marinis
Drums: Vincenzo Mazzone

• Cenerentola (Pino Minafra) 19:30

assolos: Lomuto, Minafra, Ottaviano

• Overnight reflections (Roberto Ottaviano) 8:05

assolos: Minafra, Berlen

Place and date: Bari, Casa di Pulcinella, June 9, 1981.

Praxis

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Trombone: Michele Lomuto
Piano: Pippo Fumaroli
Electric bass: Ilario De Marinis
Drums: Vincenzo Mazzone

• Praxis – Au privave (C. Parker) 5:54

assolos: Lomuto, Minafra, Fumaroli, De Marinis, Mazzone

• Tempus fugit (Bud Powell) 4:58

assolos: Minafra, Lomuto, Fumaroli, De Marinis

Place and date: unknown, 1981.

Enrico Rava Italian Project

Enrico Rava (tp, arr, ld)
Pino Minafra (tp)
Pietro Tonolo (sax)
Gigi Lomuto (tb)
Augusto Mancinelli (g)
Antonello Salis (p, acc)
Furio DiCastri (b)
Ettore Fioravanti (dr)
Luigi Lai (launedda)
Mauro Palmas (mand, launedda)
Elena Ledda (voc)

Jazzfest Berlin 1984
Live at Philharmonie Berlin, Großer Saal, date 1.11.1984
Artistic director George Gruntz

• Tema da Giulietta degli spiriti (Nino Rota) 7:08

soloists: Fioravanti, Minafra

Nexus

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Sax: Daniele Cavallanti
Trombone: Luca Bonvini
Double bass: Paolino Dalla Porta
Drums: Tiziano Tononi

• intro Amanita Muscaria (P. Dalla Porta) 00:49
• The Nexus (D. Cavallanti) 12:26

assolos: Cavallanti, Bonvini, Minafra, Dalla Porta

• Sera (Pippo Barzizza) 3:50

Place and date: Rome, June 29, 1985. Recorded by Rudy Rabassini.

Pino Minafra Quintet

Trumpet: Pino Minafra
Sax: Sandro Satta
Piano: Antonello Salis
Double bass: Paolino Dalla Porta
Drums: Ettore Fioravanti (in place of Mazzone)

• E per Satana hip hip hip hurra (Pino Minafra) 16:48

assolos: Satta, Minafra

• Pippo il ladro (Pino Minafra) 22:12

assolos: Minafra, Satta

Place and date: Atina, Atina Jazz, July 21, 1988

Space Jazz Trio

guests Chet Baker, Pino Minafra, Franco Piana, Massimo Nunzi

Piano: Enrico Pieranunzi
Double Bass: Enzo Pietropaoli
Drums: Fabrizio Sferra
Guests trumpets: Chet Baker, Pino Minafra, Franco Piana, Massimo Nunzi

• Now’s the time (Charlie Parker) 10:31

assolos: Pieranunzi, Nunzi, Piana, Minafra, Baker, Pieranunzi, Pietropaoli, 4&4 Nunzi Piana Minafra Baker

Place and date: Rome, March 1988. Recorded by Rudy Rabassini.