Italian Instabile Orchestra
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Latest Release
- Plays Ellington
- October 2025
- • 8 Songs
Top Songs
| 1 | Take The A Train [Live] | ||
| 2 | Sophisticated Lady [Live] | ||
| 3 | Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me [Live] | ||
| 4 | The Duke of Medley [Live] | ||
| 5 | Moon Indigo [Live] |
Albums
Oct 2004 • 18 songs
Oct 2004 • 6 songs
Mar 1995 • 13 songs
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Biography
The Italian Instabile Orchestra (IIO) is an 18-piece big band that includes some of Italy's finest free and avant-garde jazz musicians, including trumpeter Pino Minafra and saxophonists Eugenio Columbo, Gianluigi Trovesi, and Carlos Actis Dato; pianist/composer Giorgio Gaslini and bassist Bruno Tommaso were also early members. The orchestra was originally an ad hoc group organized in 1990 to play the Festival di Noci, an annual Italian jazz event, but Minafra decided to resuscitate it for the next year's festival. In 1992, the band played its first gig outside of Italy, the Ri...