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Mario Corvini is a Milan-born trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor who has spent four decades at the center of Rome's institutional jazz-orchestra scene. He began studying trombone at age eleven under his father, Alberto Corvini, an Italian-Argentine trumpeter who spent thirty years as principal trumpet of the RAI (Italian state broadcaster) light-music orchestra and worked alongside Astor Piazzolla and Gato Barbieri. Corvini's older brother is trumpeter Claudio Corvini, also profiled on this site; the two are Discogs-confirmed together on six releases spanning 1989 to 2026, from Il Principe (1989) through Rosario Giuliani's Brassing (2026) - a documented professional partnership, not a coincidental shared surname. Corvini signed his first professional contract in 1986, as principal trombonist with RAI Milan's Light Rhythms Orchestra.
From 1986 to 2004 Corvini played trombone in pianist Riccardo Fassi's Tankio Band, recording four albums with the group. The earliest, Il Principe (1989, Splasc(h) Records), co-billed to the band and American saxophonist Steve Grossman, is Discogs-confirmed to also include brother Claudio Corvini on trumpet, guitarist Fabio Zeppetella, trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini and trumpeter Aldo Bassi. The band's later albums - Notte (1991), Plays the Music of Frank Zappa (1995), Serial Killer (2001) and Plays Zappa: The Return of the Fat Chicken (2017) - all also carry Corvini's trombone credit on Discogs.
In 1993 Corvini co-founded the Roma Jazz Ensemble with drummer Pietro Iodice, recording Signor Jones (2000) and Fast Race (2005) as the Corvini & Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble, both on Rome jazz imprints (Via Veneto Jazz and Brave Art Records). In 2005 that ensemble evolved into the Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra (PMJO), the resident big band of Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica under the Fondazione Musica per Roma, where Corvini has served as a principal composer and arranger. A separate, earlier credit places him in Giorgio Gaslini's Grande Orchestra Nazionale di Jazz on the album Live (2000, Soul Note, recorded in 1992), Discogs-confirmed alongside brother Claudio Corvini and fellow trumpeters Emilio Soana, Giampaolo Casati and Flavio Boltro, and pianist Stefano Battaglia, all under Giorgio Gaslini's direction.
Alongside performing, Corvini has built a substantial teaching career: he directed the Theory, Composition and Jazz Arrangement department at Rome's Saint Louis College of Music from 2006 to 2008, and has taught jazz trombone and trumpet at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2009. His original compositions and arrangements have placed first in the "Scrivere in Jazz" competition in Sassari (1998) and the Barga Jazz international arranging competition (2002). In 2012 he founded the New Talents Jazz Orchestra, a big band for emerging players, co-leading its 2016 album Extempora with saxophonist Daniele Tittarelli, also profiled on this site. He founded a second student-facing ensemble, the Young Art Jazz Ensemble, in 2017.
Corvini's discography also includes a long parallel career as a first-call trombonist for Italian pop, television and film sessions, recording behind Loretta Goggi, Morandi, Giorgia, Gigi D'Alessio, Carmen Consoli, Marina Rei, Valeria Rossi and Renato Zero, and playing on soundtrack sessions for RAI and film composers - a studio-work pattern that mirrors his father's own RAI-orchestra generation. His most recent Discogs-documented credit, alongside brother Claudio Corvini, is Rosario Giuliani's brass-ensemble album Brassing (2026, Parco Della Musica Records), on which Corvini plays trombone and is credited as arranger.
Corvini's musical identity is built around the big-band and orchestral-jazz tradition of Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica scene, first as a section trombonist and later as a composer, arranger and conductor for the ensembles he helped found. The through-line from the Roma Jazz Ensemble (1993) to the PMJO (2005) to the New Talents Jazz Orchestra (2012) and Young Art Jazz Ensemble (2017) reflects a career spent building and passing down large-ensemble jazz formats, mirroring in miniature the trajectory of his own teacher and father, Alberto Corvini. His earlier combo work in Riccardo Fassi's Tankio Band, alongside American guest soloist Steve Grossman, sits in a more straight-ahead post-bop idiom, distinct from the arranged big-band writing that defines his later career. Running underneath both strands is decades of first-call session work for Italian pop and broadcast productions, the same kind of studio versatility that supported his father's and brother's careers.
Verified against the Discogs API (artist 935337, "Mario Corvini," described there as an Italian jazz trombonist born October 12, 1967 in Milan; namevariations include "Corvini," "M. Corvini" and "Mario Raffaele Corvini"). A separate Discogs entity, "Mario Raffaele Corvini" (id 8613771), carries no releases of its own and is treated as an unmerged duplicate, not a different person. Discogs lists 71 items under his personal artist page, all logged there as sideman/session credits (Appearance, TrackAppearance, Featuring, Written-By or similar), plus two further Main leader credits filed under the separate group entity "Corvini & Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble" (id 7528195), and one co-billed credit filed under "Daniele Tittarelli & Mario Corvini's New Talents Jazz Orchestra."
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| Album | Year | Label | Personnel | Notes | Listen | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signor Jones | 2000 | Via Veneto Jazz (vvj 025) | Corvini & Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble, composed and arranged by Mario Corvini. Personnel not itemized on Discogs. A promotional description from the Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica names saxophonists Rosario Giuliani, Gianni Oddi and Gianni Savelli among the players, but this is not independently confirmable at the Discogs credit level, so it is reported here as unverified rather than turned into a personnel credit. | Co-founded with drummer Pietro Iodice in 1993 as the Roma Jazz Ensemble; this album is the direct predecessor to the Parco della Musica Jazz Orchestra. Nine tracks including the title track and "Apache Dance." | not found | Amazon search |
| Fast Race | 2005 | Brave Art Records (5202912000) | Mario Corvini & Pietro Iodice Roma Jazz Ensemble. Personnel not itemized on Discogs beyond producer Piero Fabrizi. | Eight tracks including the title track and a version of Thelonious Monk's "Pannonica." | not found | Amazon search |
| Extempora | 2016 | Parco Della Musica Records | Daniele Tittarelli & Mario Corvini's New Talents Jazz Orchestra. Corvini conducts; full personnel (Discogs-itemized) includes Diego Bettazzi, Vittorio Cuculo, Riccardo Nebbiosi, Matteo Vagnarelli, Nicolo Pagani, Francesco Merenda, Luca Berardi, Marco Silvi, Emiliano Mazzenga, Igor Marino, Davide Di Pasquale, Elisabetta Mattei, Stefano Coccia, Andrea Priola, Chiara Orlando, Nicola Tariello and Stefano Monastra. | Daniele Tittarelli's compositions performed live by the New Talents Jazz Orchestra Corvini founded in 2012, arranged by Corvini and Gianluigi Giannatempo. | Spotify | Amazon search |
Chronological, from Discogs credits checked at the release level. Roles are given exactly as itemized on Discogs; where a release's own Discogs page does not itemize personnel, the role shown is the one recorded on Corvini's own artist discography page.
| Album | Year | Label | Role | Notes | Listen | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Musiche Da La Corrida | 1988 | Five | Trombone | Billed to Roberto Pregadio. | not found | Amazon search |
| Immagine Di Donna | 1988 | Sirio | Featuring | Billed to Juliano Cavicchi. | not found | Amazon search |
| Gianluigi Di Franco | 1988 | Zafiro | Appearance | Billed to Gianluigi Di Franco. | not found | Amazon search |
| Donna Io Donna Tu | 1988 | Fonit Cetra | Performer | Billed to Loretta Goggi. | not found | Amazon search |
| Il Principe | 1989 | Splasc(h) Records | Trombone | Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band Featuring Steve Grossman. Discogs-itemized personnel: brother Claudio Corvini (trumpet), Fabio Zeppetella (guitar), Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone, tuba), Aldo Bassi (trumpet), Steve Grossman (tenor/soprano saxophone). | Spotify (track) | Amazon search |
| Blues Immaginario | 1989 | Splasc(h) Records | Trombone | Billed to Mario Donatone. | not found | Amazon search |
| (Adesso Glielo Dico) | 1989 | RCA | Trombone, Bass Trombone | Billed to Locasciulli. | not found | Amazon search |
| Bix - An Interpretation Of A Legend O.S.T. | 1990 | RCA, RCA Italiana | Appearance | Billed to Various. | not found | Amazon search |
| Notte | 1991 | SPLASC(H) Records | Trombone | Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band. Personnel not itemized on this release's Discogs page. | not found | Amazon search |
| Quando Eravamo Repressi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1992 | CAM, Mercury | Brass | Billed to "Stress" Sergio Cammariere. | not found | Amazon search |
| Sulla Rotta Del Rhum | 1992 | Classico Dischi | Appearance | Billed to Trio Magico Quartet. | not found | Amazon search |
| Tiromancyno | 1992 | RCA Italiana | Appearance | Billed to Tiromancyno. | not found | Amazon search |
| Collezione Privata | 1992 | EMI | Appearance | Billed to Mijares. | not found | Amazon search |
| Hands Off (Set Me Free) | 1993 | One Thousand Records (2) | Appearance | Billed to Joy Salinas. | not found | Amazon search |
| Bip Bip | 1993 | One Thousand Records (2) | Horns [Arrangements], Trombone | Billed to Joy Salinas. | not found | Amazon search |
| Live | 1993 | Polydor | Trombone | Billed to Avanzi Sound Machine. | not found | Amazon search |
| Plays The Music Of Frank Zappa | 1995 | Splasc(h) Records | Trombone | Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band. Personnel not itemized on this release's Discogs page. | not found | Amazon search |
| La Chiamavano Marlene | 1995 | L'Immenso | Trombone | Billed to Tiziana Quaresima. | not found | Amazon search |
| Sola | 1995 | X-Energy Records | Appearance | Billed to Marina Rei. | not found | Amazon search |
| Morandi | 1995 | Penguin (3) | Musician | Billed to Morandi. | not found | Amazon search |
| Barbara Cola | 1995 | BMG, Penguin (3) | Trombone, Trumpet | Billed to Barbara Cola. | not found | Amazon search |
| Comming Back | 1996 | Orange Records | Horn | Billed to Pro Tribe. | not found | Amazon search |
| Marina Rei | 1996 | Virgin | Appearance | Billed to Marina Rei. | not found | Amazon search |
| Primavera (Remixes) | 1997 | Virgin | Appearance | Billed to Marina Rei. | not found | Amazon search |
| Girasole | 1999 | Dischi Di Cioccolata, BMG | Appearance | Billed to Giorgia. | not found | Amazon search |
| Live | 2000 | Soul Note | Trombone | Directed by Giorgio Gaslini; Discogs-itemized personnel includes brother Claudio Corvini, Emilio Soana, Giampaolo Casati, Flavio Boltro (trumpets) and Stefano Battaglia (piano). Recorded 1992, released 2000. | not found | Amazon search |
| Serial Killer | 2001 | Splasc(h) Records | Trombone | Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band. Personnel not itemized on this release's Discogs page. | not found | Amazon search |
| Latino, Mi Amor! (Latin Orchestra) | 2001 | Primrose Music | Trombone | Billed to Carlos Sarmiento And Marco Siniscalco. | not found | Amazon search |
| Promessa | 2001 | Carosello | Appearance | Billed to Carlotta. | not found | Amazon search |
| Il Cammino Dell'Età | 2001 | RCA | Trombone | Billed to Gigi D'Alessio. | not found | Amazon search |
| Tre Parole | 2001 | BMG Ricordi S.p.A., BMG Ricordi S.p.A., Ariola | Trombone | Billed to Valeria Rossi. | not found | Amazon search |
| Ricordatevi Dei Fiori | 2001 | Ariola | Trombone | Billed to Valeria Rossi. | not found | Amazon search |
| Italian Jazz Graffiti | 2002 | Isma Record | Trombone | Billed to Pietro Ciancaglini. | not found | Amazon search |
| O.M.P. | 2003 | Not On Label | Trombone | Billed to Carolina Brandes. | not found | Amazon search |
| Via Veneto Jazz - Ten Years Of Italian Jazz Label 1993-2003 | 2003 | Via Veneto Jazz | Written-By | Billed to Various. | not found | Amazon search |
| Joyfull Noise | 2003 | FKJ Music Records | Appearance | Billed to Michelle Weeks & Dawn Tallman. | not found | Amazon search |
| Music Farm Compilation | 2004 | NAR International | Trombone | Billed to Various. | not found | Amazon search |
| OMP | 2004 | La Frontiera | Trombone | Billed to Carolina Brandes. | not found | Amazon search |
| Zoboko Square | 2004 | Jati Records | Trombone | Billed to Fabio Locurcio. | not found | Amazon search |
| [A Portrait Of Trombone] | 2004 | Isma Record | Trombone | Billed to Massimo Pirone. | Spotify | Amazon search |
| Mr. Freedom | 2004 | Astralwerks | Appearance | Billed to Gabin. | not found | Amazon search |
| Sul Lungotevere | 2005 | Musica Jazz | TrackAppearance | Billed to Roberto Gatto. | not found | Amazon search |
| Il Pane, Il Vino E La Visione | 2006 | Via Veneto Jazz, Capitol Music | Appearance | Billed to Sergio Cammariere. | not found | Amazon search |
| *Per Amore * | 2006 | Parco Della Musica Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment | Trombone [(First)] | Billed to Various. | not found | Amazon search |
| Bindi'n Jazz | 2006 | Via Veneto Jazz | Trombone | Billed to Cristiana Polegri. | not found | Amazon search |
| L'altalena | 2006 | RCA, Sony BMG Music Entertainment | Appearance | Billed to Nicky Nicolai. | not found | Amazon search |
| Eva Contro Eva | 2006 | Polydor | Trombone | Billed to Carmen Consoli. | not found | Amazon search |
| Jazzitaliano Live 2007 | 2007 | Casa Del Jazz | Trombone | Billed to Parco Della Musica Jazz Orchestra Special Guest Irene Grandi, Simona Bencini. | not found | Amazon search |
| My Turn | 2007 | Nelson Records | Trombone | Billed to Antonello Vannucchi Featuring Beverly Lewis. | not found | Amazon search |
| What's Next? | 2007 | Stereo Deluxe, Stereo Deluxe | Appearance | Billed to Pat Appleton. | not found | Amazon search |
| Sketches Of Samba | 2008 | Schema | Appearance | Billed to Nicola Conte And His Group. | not found | Amazon search |
| Omaggio A Armando Trovajoli | 2008 | Casa Del Jazz | Trombone | Dino E Franco Piana Jazz Orchestra, led by Franco Piana. Personnel per Franco Piana's own Discogs-sourced discography-full.md on this site; Corvini in the trombone section. | not found | Amazon search |
| Like Leaves In The Wind | 2008 | Schema | Appearance | Billed to Nicola Conte. | not found | Amazon search |
| Rituals | 2008 | Schema | Trombone | Billed to Nicola Conte. | not found | Amazon search |
| Presente | 2009 | Tattica | Appearance | Billed to Renato Zero. | not found | Amazon search |
| L'Ultimo Terrestre (Colonna Sonora Originale) | 2011 | Radiofandango | Trombone, Euphonium | Billed to Valerio Vigliar. | not found | Amazon search |
| To You: Thad Jones | 2011 | Musica Jazz | Appearance | Billed to Various. | not found | Amazon search |
| Nibiru | 2011 | Terre Sommerse | Trumpet | Discogs-itemized: brother Claudio Corvini also credited (trumpet); Corvini plays trumpet here rather than his usual trombone, per the extraartists credit. | not found | Amazon search |
| Psychedelic Light | 2013 | Caligola | Trombone | Billed to Lithium J Quartet. | not found | Amazon search |
| Duke | 2015 | Verve Records | Trombone | Fabrizio Bosso Quartet with the Paolo Silvestri Ensemble. Discogs-itemized personnel includes brother Claudio Corvini, Fabrizio Bosso, Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Gianni Oddi. | Spotify | Amazon search |
| Alcuni piccoli film | 2015 | Catagiac | Appearance | Billed to Gerardo Casiello. | not found | Amazon search |
| Omaggio A Duke Ellington | 2015 | Jazzit Records | Directed By | Billed to New Talents Jazz Orchestra. | not found | Amazon search |
| Tortuga | 2015 | Heinz Music | Appearance | Billed to Antonello Venditti. | not found | Amazon search |
| The Mingus Suite | 2016 | Dodicilune, Dodicilune | Trombone | Billed to Adriano Clemente. | not found | Amazon search |
| Extempora | 2016 | Parco Della Musica Records | Conductor | Co-billed to Corvini and Daniele Tittarelli; Corvini conducts the New Talents Jazz Orchestra he founded in 2012. | Spotify | Amazon search |
| Plays Zawinul | 2016 | Pulsar Jazz | Arranged By, Directed By | Castelli Jazz Collective plus Antonello Salis. Corvini arranges and directs, also playing trombone and euphonium. Discogs-itemized personnel includes brother Claudio Corvini and Jacopo Ferrazza (bass). | not found | Amazon search |
| Plays Zappa - The Return Of The Fat Chicken | 2017 | Alfa Music | Trombone | Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band. Personnel not itemized on this release's Discogs page. | not found | Amazon search |
| Love Is The Sound Of Surprise | 2018 | Parco Della Musica Records | Trombone | Billed to Carla Marcotulli. | not found | Amazon search |
| The Coltrane Suite And Other Impressions | 2023 | Dodicilune, Dodicilune | Appearance | Billed to Adriano Clemente. | not found | Amazon search |
| Brassing | 2026 | Parco Della Musica Records | Trombone, Arranged By | Discogs-itemized personnel includes brother Claudio Corvini, Fabrizio Bosso, Rosario Giuliani (leader) and Dario Deidda; liner notes by Paolo Fresu. | YouTube | Amazon search |
| Controvento | undated | Not On Label | Trombone | Billed to Pietro Dall'Oglio. | not found | Amazon search |
Discogs also lists a second entity, "Mario Raffaele Corvini" (id 8613771, data quality "Needs Major Changes"), which carries no releases and no profile text. This is very likely an unmerged duplicate of the main "Mario Corvini" (935337) entity rather than a different person - "Mario Raffaele Corvini" is also the full name given on Corvini's own biography pages. No releases were found under the 8613771 identity, so nothing from it is reflected in this discography.
A promotional description of Signor Jones (2000) circulated by the Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica names saxophonists Rosario Giuliani, Gianni Oddi and Gianni Savelli among the personnel; this could not be independently confirmed at the Discogs credit level (the release's Discogs entry does not itemize individual personnel), so it is reported here as unverified promotional biography rather than a confirmed connection, and is not the basis for the Rosario Giuliani or Gianni Oddi links above (those rest on the independently Discogs-verified Brassing and Duke credits instead).