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Lelio Luttazzi was a multifaceted artist who shined and left his mark as a pianist, musician, conductor and composer. A jazz lover, Luttazzi reached fame and success thanks to his brilliant and undoubtable talent. During a career spanning more than 50 years, he established himself as a master of several disciplines such as music, literature and cinema. He started his career in Trieste right after the Second World War. In 1948 he moved to Milan to take on the role of Director at teh mythical CGD. In 1950 he moved to Turin where he conducted Rai's orchestra. One of the first composers to place jazz structures in the Italian songs, he invented the rhythmic string orchestra. To understand Luttazzi's sound it is important to consider the context he grew up in, Trieste has alwyas been a peculiar city, its musical history being influenced by the post-war anglo-american administration, which introduced jazz and public radio broadcasting. Luttazzi's sound is in fact characterized by mitteleuropean atmospheres tinged wtih American swing. Swing, humor, invention and immediacy are teh distinctive traits of his music. When he was young, he fell in love with the music of Louis Armstrong, and of American composers such as Gershwin, Porter, Kern and Carmichael - Erroll Garner was his favorite pianist. His deep knowledge of music allowed him to obtain outstanding results not only as a composer but also as an arranger and orchestrator. Luttazzi contributed to the rising Italian film industry, writing a multitude of soundtracks but also as an actor. His works ranged from classical orchestration to opera and jazz. His style of jazz was unmistakable and personal: he had a deep, physical connection with this sound, you could have told by his mannerism. One of the pioneers of the genre in Italy, he's been the first to use jazz as a soundtrack in movies.