BELLA BAND

A five-piece band from Florence that only released an album. Their drummer Mauro Sarti had previously played with Campo di Marte. The LP, released by Cramps in 1978, included four long instrumental tracks in a typical jazz-rock style, with nice horn arrangements and good guitar, keyboards and sax solo parts. After a line-up change, and despite a good live activity, the band disappeared in the fertile florentine new wave scene of the late seventies. After leaving Bella Band in 1978, Mauro Sarti entered the rock'n'roll group Dennis & the Jets, later joined by sax player Roberto Buoni. Riccardo Cioni and Luigi Fiorentini formed Panama, with ex-Sensations' Fix Richard Ursillo and Stephen Head, and singer Sarah Jane Morris. Cioni also has an acting role in Alessandro Benvenuti's film Ad ovest di Paperino (whose soundtrack is played by the group The Colla featuring Tony Sidney from Perigeo). Bass player Fabrizio Federighi has been for many years a read more...