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Tiziana Ghiglioni is the singer the previous generation of Italian jazz was built around, and the one most often missing from accounts of it written outside Italy.
She was born in Savona, on the Ligurian coast, on 25 October 1956, and did not grow up inside the music. Hearing Archie Shepp play is what turned her toward jazz. What turned that into a career was a workshop run by Giorgio Gaslini in 1979; she ended up singing in Gaslini's big band, and studied voice technique alongside it with the soprano Gabriella Ravazzi. One of her earliest professional engagements was a theatre tour of a Shakespeare and Ellington programme with Gaslini and the actor Giorgio Albertazzi.
Her debut, Lonely Woman (Dischi Della Quercia, 1981), is co-billed to five musicians: Ghiglioni, Larry Nocella, Riccardo Zegna, Piero Leveratto and Luigi Bonafede. Arrigo Polillo, who wrote the standard Italian history of the music, reviewed it favourably. Two years later she recorded Sounds Of Love with Kenny Drew on piano, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass and Barry Altschul on drums, which is an unusually strong second album for a singer that early in a career.
The stretch that defines her international reputation runs 1991 to 1993. In those three years she made Lyrics, a duo with Paul Bley; I'll Be Around with Mal Waldron and Enrico Rava; Up And Down on Black Saint with Chico Freeman and Waldron again; and So Many Stars on Philology with Lee Konitz and the pianist Stefano Battaglia. Sitting inside that run is SONB, short for Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, made for the Milanese label Splasc(h) in 1992 with Steve Lacy, Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi and the trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini, with whom she had already cut a duo record in 1987. Musica Jazz voted SONB the second-best album of the year, and the magazine's director at the time, Pino Candini, called her the first lady of Italian jazz. The phrase has followed her since.
Earlier, in 1991, Philology had released Goodbye, Chet, recorded with the pianist Mike Melillo roughly two months after Chet Baker passed away in May 1988.
The other half of her catalogue is entirely Italian, and it is the half that places her in this tradition rather than a generic international one. In 1994 she released Tiziana Ghiglioni canta Luigi Tenco on Philology and won the Targa Tenco, the award the Club Tenco gives for Italian songwriting. Tenco was a Ligurian songwriter who took his own life at the Sanremo festival in January 1967, at 28; Ghiglioni grew up roughly forty kilometres from where he did. She returned to his songs on Tenco In Jazz (1998) and again on Non Sono Io (2010), sixteen years after the first record. She did the same with Lucio Battisti on Battisti! (1998) and A Lucio Battisti 2 (2000), and with Duke Ellington on My Essential Duke Ellington (1998).
In 1995 she recorded Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini for Soul Note: a full album of the compositions of the man who had taught her sixteen years earlier and taken her into his big band. She continued to appear on his own records, on Song Book Vol. II (2001) and Song Book (2006).
She worked steadily with the pianist Renato Sellani from the turn of the 2000s, on the paired albums Volare and Poetica and then across his long Italian Saga series through 2007, including Ciao Kramer (2003) alongside Fabrizio Bosso. So Long Flores (Splasc(h), 2004) is dedicated to the pianist Luca Flores, who passed away in 1995.
Her catalogue sits almost entirely on small Italian independents, Splasc(h) and Philology above all, with two records on Black Saint and one on Soul Note. That distribution is the practical reason a listener outside Italy can follow this music for years without meeting her name.
She teaches jazz voice at conservatory level, currently in Rovigo and previously in Cuneo, and divides her time between Genoa and Milan. She was nominated Best Jazz Singer at the Italian Jazz Awards in 2007 and 2010, chaired the artistic commission of the third Italian Jazz Awards in 2009, and won the Iseo prize in 2005. Her most recent album under her own name is No Baby (Dodicilune, 2017), with the alto saxophonist Steve Potts and the pianist Gianni Lenoci.
Ghiglioni came to jazz through Archie Shepp rather than through the standards repertoire, and that origin shows: she is a singer equally at home inside a song and outside it, which is why players from the free and avant-garde end of the music kept hiring her. Steve Lacy, Paul Bley, Mal Waldron and Chico Freeman are not names that appear on the records of a conventional standards singer.
Her formal training was split between Gaslini's jazz workshop and classical vocal technique with a soprano, and the combination produced a voice with real control at the extremes of its range and a willingness to treat the voice as an instrument in a horn section rather than as a soloist to be accompanied. On SONB she is unmistakably leading a band that contains three of the strongest improvisers in European jazz.
The Italian song repertoire is the other pole of her work. Her Tenco and Battisti records are not novelty crossovers; she returned to Tenco three times across sixteen years, and the approach treats those songs as a body of composition worth the same interpretive seriousness as Ellington's.
- Sounds Of Love (1983) - her second album, with Kenny Drew, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Barry Altschul. Spotify - Sounds Of Love Listen · Buy
- Lyrics (1991) - the duo with Paul Bley, and the sparest setting she has recorded in. Spotify - Lyrics Listen · Buy
- I'll Be Around (1991) - with Mal Waldron and Enrico Rava. Spotify - I'll Be Around Listen · Buy
- SONB (1992, Splasc(h)) - the record that produced the nickname, with Steve Lacy, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi and Giancarlo Schiaffini. The single best argument for her as a bandleader. Spotify - SONB
- So Many Stars (1993, Philology) - with Lee Konitz and Stefano Battaglia, and the most approachable entry point in the catalogue. Spotify - So Many Stars Listen · Buy
- Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini (1995, Soul Note) - an album built entirely from her own teacher's compositions. Spotify - Sings Gaslini Listen · Buy
- Tenco In Jazz (1998, Philology) - the second of her three Luigi Tenco records, and the Italian half of her work at its clearest. Spotify - Tenco In Jazz Listen · Buy
- River Tales (Our Dreams Are Still Alive!) (2015, Splasc(h)) - with Tiziano Tononi and the American singer Jay Clayton. Spotify - River Tales Listen
Tiziana Ghiglioni - Full Discography
Discogs artist 2168241. 83 credits on the main entity: 32 Main, 39 Appearance, 11 TrackAppearance and 1 Producer, plus 12 further credits across six group entities filed under her name. Recording career runs 1981 to 2021.
Leader and Co-Led Releases
| Album | Year | Label | Personnel | Notes | Listen | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lonely Woman | 1981 | Dischi Della Quercia | Ghiglioni (vocals), Larry Nocella, Riccardo Zegna, Piero Leveratto, Luigi Bonafede | Her debut, co-billed to all five players. | not found | Amazon |
| Sounds Of Love | 1983 | Ghiglioni (vocals), Kenny Drew (piano), Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (bass), Barry Altschul (drums) | Her second album, with an American and Danish rhythm section of the first rank. | Spotify | Amazon | |
| Silenzi Osceni: Live In Roccella Jonica 1986 | 1987 | Ismez/Polis Music | With Paolo Damiani | not found | Amazon | |
| Somebody Special | 1987 | not found | Amazon | |||
| Onde | 1987 | Splasc(h) Records | Art Studio: Enrico Fazio (bass), Fiorenzo Sordini (drums, percussion, marimba), Claudio Lodati (electric/acoustic guitar), Carlo Actis Dato (tenor/baritone sax, bass clarinet) | Billed "Art Studio & Tiziana Ghiglioni" | not found | Amazon |
| Well Actually | 1987 | Tiziana Ghiglioni / Giancarlo Schiaffini Duo; Ghiglioni also credited as producer | The duo album with the trombonist, five years before they worked together again on SONB. | not found | Amazon | |
| Yet Time | 1988 | not found | Amazon | |||
| Voices: Live In Rome | 1989 | With Paolo Damiani | not found | Amazon | ||
| Goodbye, Chet | 1991 | Philology | Ghiglioni (vocals), Mike Melillo (piano) | Recorded roughly two months after Chet Baker passed away on 13 May 1988. | not found | Amazon |
| Lyrics | 1991 | Paul Bley (piano), Ghiglioni (vocals) | Duo with Bley. | Spotify | Amazon | |
| I'll Be Around | 1991 | Ghiglioni (vocals), Mal Waldron (piano), Enrico Rava (trumpet) | Spotify | Amazon | ||
| Up And Down | 1992 | Black Saint | Ghiglioni (vocals), Chico Freeman, Mal Waldron | not found | Amazon | |
| SONB (Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue) | 1992 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals), Steve Lacy (soprano sax), Enrico Rava (trumpet), Gianluigi Trovesi (reeds), Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone) | Voted second-best album of the year by Musica Jazz. The record behind the "first lady of Italian jazz" tag. | Spotify | Amazon |
| So Many Stars | 1993 | Philology | Lee Konitz (alto sax), Ghiglioni (vocals), Stefano Battaglia (piano) | Billed to Konitz on streaming services. | Spotify | Amazon |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni canta Luigi Tenco | 1994 | Philology | Won the Targa Tenco in 1994. | not found | Amazon | |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini | 1995 | Soul Note | Ghiglioni (vocals) performing the compositions of Giorgio Gaslini | An album made entirely of her own teacher's writing, sixteen years after his 1979 workshop. | Spotify | Amazon |
| Spellbound | 1996 | YVP Music | Ghiglioni (vocals), Attilio Zanchi (bass), Gianni Cazzola (drums), Guido Di Leone (guitar), Gianluigi Trovesi (saxophone, clarinet) | Personnel confirmed via Discogs release 6466153. | not found | Amazon |
| Tenco In Jazz | 1998 | Philology | Her second Luigi Tenco record; piano by Giovanni Ceccarelli. | Spotify | Amazon | |
| Battisti! | 1998 | Philology | not found | Amazon | ||
| My Essential Duke Ellington | 1998 | Philology | Ghiglioni (vocals), Lee Konitz (alto sax), Attilio Zanchi (bass), Tony Scott (clarinet, piano), Gianni Cazzola (drums), Gianluca Tagliazucchi/Giovanni Ceccarelli/Roberto Cipelli (piano), Maurizio Caldura Núñez (sax), Cristiano Pecchio and Lena Aboo (vocals), plus Camilla Battaglia (vocals) | Recorded 2 Feb-20 Jul 1995 at Murec Studio, Milan. Camilla Battaglia, Ghiglioni's daughter, was four or five years old at the sessions - a family cameo, not a professional credit; Discogs' release-level extraartists list carries no per-track breakdown to confirm which piece she appears on. Personnel confirmed via Discogs release 7704268. |
not found | Amazon |
| Volare | 2000 | Philology | Ghiglioni (vocals), Renato Sellani (piano) | First of the paired Sellani albums. | not found | Amazon |
| Poetica | 2000 | Philology | Ghiglioni (vocals), Renato Sellani (piano) | not found | Amazon | |
| A Lucio Battisti 2 | 2000 | not found | Amazon | |||
| La Voce Del Mondo | 2002 | Not On Label | not found | Amazon | ||
| Voyage | 2002 | Wide Sound | not found | Amazon | ||
| Rotella Variations | 2003 | Splasc(h) | not found | Amazon | ||
| So Long Flores | 2004 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals), Alberto Tacchini (piano, arrangements), Tiziano Tononi (drums) | For the pianist Luca Flores, who passed away in 1995. | not found | Amazon |
| Gershwin! | 2007 | Philology | With Enrico Rava | not found | Amazon | |
| A Male Walking In The Cauldron | 2009 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals), Piero Bittolo Bon (alto sax, bass clarinet, flute), Silvia Bolognesi (double bass), Tiziano Tononi (drums), Simone Massaron (electric guitar), Daniele Cavallanti (tenor/baritone sax), Emanuele Parrini (violin, viola) | not found | Amazon | |
| Non Sono Io: Musiche di Luigi Tenco | 2010 | Philology | Her third Tenco record, sixteen years after the first. | not found | Amazon | |
| Songs | 2011 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals), Alberto Tacchini (piano, music by), Roberto Bonati (bass), Massimo Manzi (drums), Riccardo Luppi (tenor sax) | Co-billed "Tiziana Ghiglioni - Alberto Tacchini": his music, her lyrics. | not found | Amazon |
| Figli | 2011 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals), Alberto Tacchini (piano, arrangements), Tiziano Tononi (drums), Daniele Cavallanti (tenor sax) | not found | Amazon | |
| River Tales (Our Dreams Are Still Alive!) | 2015 | Splasc(h) | Ghiglioni (vocals) with Tiziano Tononi and Jay Clayton | Spotify | Amazon | |
| No Baby | 2017 | Dodicilune | Ghiglioni (vocals), Steve Potts (alto sax), Gianni Lenoci (piano) | Her most recent record under her own name. | not found | Amazon |
| Apaz | Promojazz | not found | Amazon |
Group Entities Filed Under Her Name
| Entity | Discogs ID | Credits | Releases |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians | 2471681 | 5 | Peace Warriors Volume One (Black Saint, 2005), Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) Volume Two (Black Saint, 2007), Forms And Sounds: Air Sculptures (Felmay, 2018) |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni Sextet | 2822073 | 2 | Streams (1984) |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni Quartet | 4171225 | 2 | Spellbound (YVP Music, 1996) |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni / Giancarlo Schiaffini Duo | 2793623 | 1 | Well Actually (1987) |
| Tiziana Ghiglioni & The Tbone Band | 4419813 | 1 | A Male Walking In The Cauldron (Splasc(h), 2009) |
| Tenco Proget | 3944743 | 1 | Then And Now (Time In Jazz 1998-2007) (2008) |
Sideman and Guest Appearances
Chronological.
| Year | Release | Leader / Artist | Label | Listen | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Life Songs | Ishtar Quintet | Bull Records | not found | Amazon |
| 1984 | Streams | Tiziana Ghiglioni Sextet | not found | Amazon | |
| 1985 | Don't Say Goodbye | Alfredo Ponissi Ensemble | not found | Amazon | |
| 1985 | Strumentali: Genere Jazz Di Sapore Brasiliano | Alfredo Ponissi Ensemble | Nuovo Repertorio Editoriale | not found | Amazon |
| 1986 | Nightime Call | Max | not found | Amazon | |
| 1987 | Early Spring | Attilio Zanchi | Splasc(h) | not found | Amazon |
| 1988 | Mingus: Portrait In Six Colours | Roberto Ottaviano Six Mobiles | not found | Amazon | |
| 1989 | Only Angels Have Wings | Max Meazza | Solid Air | not found | Amazon |
| 1989 | Lontano Che Vai | Sergio Caputo | not found | Amazon | |
| 1990 | Ci Ritorni In Mente: Dedicato A Lucio Battisti | Various | not found | Amazon | |
| 1991 | The Art Of Romance | Michel Graillier, Riccardo Del Fra | Musidisc | not found | Amazon |
| 1994 | Quando... Tributo A Luigi Tenco | Various | not found | Amazon | |
| 1994 | L'In/Canto Del Verso: Antologia Sonora | Various | Edizioni Elytra | not found | Amazon |
| 1997 | A Night In Italy: Canzoni Italiane In Jazz | Various | Musica Jazz | not found | Amazon |
| 1998 | Alkaline | Alessandro Di Puccio Jazz Trio | Splasc(h) | not found | Amazon |
| 1999 | Almost Blue "Chet Lives" | Mike Melillo and Ares Tavolazzi | not found | Amazon | |
| 1999 | Natura Mediterranea | Paolo Pellegatti | Celestio / Azzurra Music | not found | Amazon |
| 1999 | Don't Forget... | Musikorchestra di Luca Garlaschelli | Audiar | not found | Amazon |
| 2000 | Chapter One: Italian Mood | Renato Sellani | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2001 | Song Book Vol. II | Giorgio Gaslini | Agorá | not found | Amazon |
| 2001 | ...Fo[lle] Je Reste! (Omaggio A Michel Legrand) | Donatella Chiabrera Quartet | Editions L'Eubage | not found | Amazon |
| 2002 | Italian Jazz Graffiti | Civica Jazz Band | Soul Note | not found | Amazon |
| 2002 | Splasc(h) Story | Various | Splasc(h) / Musica Jazz | not found | Amazon |
| 2002 | Corpo Di Guerra | Various | Il Manifesto | not found | Amazon |
| 2003 | Ciao Kramer | Renato Sellani Trio plus Fabrizio Bosso | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2003 | Per Carlo Alberto Rossi | Renato Sellani Trio | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2003 | Per Umberto Bindi | Renato Sellani | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2003 | Hidden Colors | Tarcisio Olgiati Quartet | Abeat Records | not found | Amazon |
| 2003 | For Miles And Miles | Massimo Donà Quintet | Caligola | not found | Amazon |
| 2004 | A Mina | Renato Sellani Trio | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2004 | Battisti In Jazz | Various | Sconfini | not found | Amazon |
| 2005 | Peace Warriors Volume One | Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians | Black Saint | not found | Amazon |
| 2006 | Song Book | Giorgio Gaslini | Velut Luna | not found | Amazon |
| 2006 | JazzItalia | Various | Jazz Forum Records | not found | Amazon |
| 2007 | Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) Volume Two | Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians | Black Saint | not found | Amazon |
| 2007 | Varii, featuring Tiziana Ghiglioni | Silvia Bolognesi Living Quartet | Reflexio | not found | Amazon |
| 2007 | Io, Modugno | Renato Sellani | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2007 | La mia finestra su Napoli | Renato Sellani | Philology | not found | Amazon |
| 2008 | Then And Now (Time In Jazz 1998-2007) | Various | Tàjrà | not found | Amazon |
| 2010 | Mingus In Strings Vol. 1 | Musikorchestra di Luca Garlaschelli | Radio SNJ Records | not found | Amazon |
| 2015 | Corindilindoli | Andrea Massaria / Giancarlo Schiaffini | Setola Di Maiale | not found | Amazon |
| 2015 | Hunger And Love (Billie Holiday 1915-2015) | Various | Dodicilune | not found | Amazon |
| 2016 | The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint And Soul Note | Mal Waldron | Black Saint / Soul Note | not found | Amazon |
| 2018 | Forms And Sounds: Air Sculptures | Tiziano Tononi & The Ornettians | Felmay | not found | Amazon |
| 2021 | A Secret Garden (In Gianni Lenoci's Music) | Gianna Montecalvo, Roberto Ottaviano | Nel Gioco Del Jazz | not found | Amazon |
Her most recent credit of any kind is the 2021 tribute to the pianist Gianni Lenoci, who had played on her own No Baby four years earlier.
Umberto Petrin (piano) - a member of Ghiglioni's touring group from 1989 to 1996, and Discogs-credited alongside Gianluigi Trovesi and Paolo Fresu on the same track of her album Tiziana Ghiglioni Canta Luigi Tenco (1994).
Roberto Ottaviano (soprano saxophone) - Discogs-confirmed on her album Yet Time (1988).
Sandro Cerino (clarinet, bass clarinet, flute) - featured alongside Ghiglioni as a member of Roberto Ottaviano's Six Mobiles on Mingus: Portrait In Six Colours (1988), Discogs-confirmed.
Maurizio Caldura Núñez (alto, tenor, soprano saxophone) - member of Ghiglioni's working sextet, credited on her 1998 Philology albums My Essential Duke Ellington and Battisti!; profiled separately on this site.
Giorgio Gaslini - her teacher from the 1979 workshop and the leader whose big band she sang in; later the subject of Tiziana Ghiglioni Sings Gaslini (Soul Note, 1995), and she appears on his Song Book Vol. II (Agorá, 2001) and Song Book (Velut Luna, 2006).
Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone) - the Well Actually duo (1987), SONB (1992), and Corindilindoli with Andrea Massaria (Setola Di Maiale, 2015). Nearly thirty years of intermittent work together.
Claudio Lodati (guitar) and Carlo Actis Dato (tenor sax) - fellow musicians on Art Studio's Onde (1987), alongside bassist Enrico Fazio, on which Ghiglioni is the featured singer, Discogs-confirmed.
Mal Waldron (piano) - I'll Be Around (1991) and Up And Down (Black Saint, 1992); she also appears in his Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint And Soul Note box (2016).
Enrico Rava (trumpet) - I'll Be Around (1991), SONB (1992) and Gershwin! (Philology, 2007).
Paul Bley (piano) - Lyrics (1991), a duo.
Lee Konitz (alto saxophone) - So Many Stars (Philology, 1993), with Stefano Battaglia.
Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone) - SONB (1992).
Renato Sellani (piano) - Volare and Poetica, then a long run through his Italian Saga series to 2007: Chapter One Italian Mood, Per Carlo Alberto Rossi, Per Umberto Bindi, A Mina, Io, Modugno, La mia finestra su Napoli, and Ciao Kramer.
Paolo Damiani - Silenzi Osceni: Live In Roccella Jonica 1986 (1987) and Voices: Live In Rome (1989).
Gianluigi Trovesi - SONB (1992).
Fabrizio Bosso (trumpet) - Ciao Kramer (Philology, 2003), with the Renato Sellani Trio.
Ares Tavolazzi (bass) - Almost Blue "Chet Lives" (1999), with Mike Melillo.
Tiziano Tononi (drums) - the Ornettians records on Black Saint (Peace Warriors Volumes One and Two, 2005 and 2007), Forms And Sounds (Felmay, 2018), and co-leader with Ghiglioni and Jay Clayton of her own River Tales (Our Dreams Are Still Alive!) (2015).
Daniele Cavallanti (tenor/baritone saxophone) - two Discogs-confirmed studio credits, on A Male Walking In The Cauldron (2009, with The Tbone Band) and Figli (2011, with Federico Ceratti).
Mike Melillo (piano) - Goodbye, Chet (Philology, 1991) and Almost Blue "Chet Lives" (1999).
Gianni Lenoci (piano) - No Baby (Dodicilune, 2017); she appears on the 2021 tribute to him, A Secret Garden (In Gianni Lenoci's Music).
Chico Freeman (saxophone) - Up And Down (Black Saint, 1992).
Alberto Tacchini (piano) - her longest-running instrumental partnership: So Long Flores (2003/2004), the co-billed Songs (2011) and Figli (2011), plus two decades of shared concert dates from their first meeting at Milan's CPM institute in the mid-1990s.
Attilio Zanchi (double bass) - a ten-year working relationship (1987-1997) per Zanchi's own biography; the two are Discogs-verified together on Early Spring (1987, his leader debut, track "After Hours") and on her own Spellbound (1996, YVP Music).
Camilla Battaglia (voice, piano, electronics) - her daughter; Discogs credits both of them on vocals on My Essential Duke Ellington (1998, recorded 1995), when Battaglia was four or five years old - a family cameo, not a professional session, but a real, documented one.
Emanuele Parrini (violin) - co-led Rotella Variations (2003) together; also Discogs-confirmed together on So Long Flores (2004), A Male Walking In The Cauldron (2009), Non Sono Io (2010) and Figli (2011).
Giampaolo Casati (trumpet) - credited with Casati on Paolo Pellegatti's Natura Mediterranea (1999, Celestio/Azzurra Music). Profiled on JazzProfiles.com.
Giancarlo Barigozzi (recording engineer) - credited as recording engineer on Sounds Of Love (Soul Note SN 1056, 1983), per Discogs.
Gianni Basso (tenor saxophone) - credited on Renato Sellani's Per Umberto Bindi (2003, Philology), on which Ghiglioni is featured on vocals, per Discogs; profiled separately on this site.
Gianni Cazzola (drums) - on Ghiglioni's Spellbound (1996), Tenco in Jazz and My Essential Duke Ellington (both 1998); profiled separately on this site.
Gianni Mimmo (soprano saxophone) - credited with the cover photograph of No Baby (Dodicilune, 2017), Ghiglioni's record with Steve Potts and Gianni Lenoci, per Discogs.
Giovanni Ceccarelli (piano) - pianist on Tenco In Jazz and on tracks 2, 4 and 7 of My Essential Duke Ellington (both 1998), Discogs-confirmed; the rhythm section on the first is Attilio Zanchi and Gianni Cazzola. His official biography calls him a steady member of her group.
Guido Di Leone (guitar) - credited beside Ghiglioni on Spellbound (1996, YVP Music); Discogs-confirmed. His own Hearing A Rhapsody (1995) also names Ghiglioni on its sleeve, though Discogs does not itemize that record's personnel. Profiled separately on this site.
Larry Nocella (tenor saxophone) - co-billed with Ghiglioni on Lonely Woman (Dischi Della Quercia, 1981), her debut; Discogs credits him on tenor saxophone.
Luca Flores (piano) - gave Flores his national recording debut on the Tiziana Ghiglioni Sextet's Streams (1984); after Flores's 1995 death, Ghiglioni recorded a full tribute album, So Long Flores (2003/2004, Splasc(h)), for which Flores's own drawings supplied the cover art. Profiled separately on this site.
Riccardo Zegna (piano) - pianist on her debut album Lonely Woman (1981) and her sextet album Streams (1989). Profiled separately on this site.
Simone Massaron (guitar) - Discogs-confirmed on three of her albums: Peace Warriors (Forgotten Children) Volume Two (2007), A Male Walking In The Cauldron (2009) and Figli (2011).
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