Complesso Santucci-Scoppa, Enzo Scoppa – Olympics

A jazz-funk essential, "Olimpiade" comes in a deluxe edition with an insert featuring posters and studio photos.

Trumpeter Francesco "Cicci" Santucci and saxophonist Enzo Scoppa, who led the Italian jazz scene alongside masters such as Sandro Brugnolini and Amadeo Tommasi, played together in the late 1950s with Modern Jazz Gang. This album was recorded in June 1971 at Sound Workshop, a studio in central Rome owned by Piero Umiliani, and also features Franco d’Andrea (electric piano) and Belgian musician Joel Vendrokenbrak (organ).At the time, this session was also released as "On the Underground Road," but this reissue is the first to restore the original artwork.

A1        Atleti    3:46
A2        Sport Sull'Acqua    3:59
A3        Concentrazione Agonistica    4:45
A4        Ginnastica Artistica    3:09
A5        Scherma    3:03
B1        Velocità    4:16
B2        Maratona    4:21
B3        Penthatlon    3:02
B4        Fondo    4:22

Trumpeter Francesco "Cicci" Santucci and saxophonist Enzo Scoppa got their start in the late '50s with the Italian group Modern Jazz Gang, along with other Italian jazz greats  such as Sandro Brugnolini and Amadeo Tommasi. In June 1971, "il maestro" Piero Umiliani offered them his Sound Workshop recording studio located in the heart of Rome, to create an album to create an album under his supervision.

The result was Olimpiade, a jazz-funk album driven by the electric piano of Franco d'Andrea (who would go on to play with the group Perigeo a year later), and the organ of Belgian musician Joel Vendrokenbrak. It should be noted that this session was also released on the Dire label, under the name "On the the Underground Road", but here it is reissued for the first time with its magnificent original cover.

A poster of this sleeve and a printed sub-sleeve featuring the presenting the Sound Workshop studio are also included with this reissue.