Italian jazz musician, composer and songwriter Gianni
Sanjust died in a Rome
nursing home on January 8, 2020. He was 85. The
musician was born in Rome
on June 23, 1934 into a family of the Sardinian nobility, the barons of Teulada.
He played the self-taught clarinet and, as a
musician, together with Peppino De Luca, from 1952 to 1955 he formed the group
"Traditional Dixielanders". In 1955 he was part of the Second
Roman New Orleans Jazz Band, where in 1960 he was replaced by Lucio Dalla. From
1960 to 1962 he played with Romano Mussolini, then moved to Milan
where he worked for the Ricordi record company and, then, in 1977 he resumed
his jazz activity in Rome
while maintaining the record producer activity. Gianni Sanjust has
edited the music of numerous film projects: among his best known compositions,
the soundtrack of the second episode of "Capriccio all'italiana",
"The Sunday Monster" directed by Steno. Sanjust was co-composer for
the 1967 Euro-western $20,000 on #7 starring Jerry Wilson.
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