Richard Galliano, La Strada Quintet (2011)

"La Dolce Vita", "Eight and a half", "The Godfather"... Nino Rota has given the cinema some of his most famous themes. With a new creation, Richard Galliano takes up Nino Rota's most beautiful film music and celebrates in his own way the centenary of the birth of the Milanese composer born on December 3, 1911. A quintet that the winds of the British saxophonist John Surman and the American trumpeter Dave Douglas will take to dreamy lands. While keeping the essence of this music of Rota, "very joyful with a background of drama" as Galliano describes it. An event that will be recorded on November 16 at the Salle Pleyel (Paris)