Renato Carosone – Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano – Piccolissima Serenata – With Raf Montrasio on Mandolin

Renato Carosone was a famous Italian singer. The first song that I heard was Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano – a typical boogie woogie song of the 50s. In this song Raf Montrasio played a fantastic American style mandolin solo on a typical Italian bowlback mandolin.

Renato Carosone (3 January 1920 – 20 May 2001) was among the greatest figures of Italian music scene in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a modern performer of the so-called canzone napoletana, Naples’ song tradition. (Wikipedia)

Renato Carosone – Tu Vuo’ Fa’ L’Americano

 

Renato Carosone – Piccolissima Serenata

Recently I have watched some other videos with Renato Carosone, and I found this little Piccolissima Serenata which does also include a mandolin, this time it is a typical Italian mandolin melody.

 

Raf Montrasio does still play the mandolin, so here is a video recorded in 2009 during a guitar festival. Raf Montrasio plays a nice tune “La marcetta di papà” (Daddy’s little march), with an impressive glissando part. He is accompanied by Davide Facchini on the guitar.

Soave Guitar Festival 2009 – Raf Montrasio & Davide Facchini

Davide Facchini & Raf Montrasio
“La marcetta di papà” (Daddy’s little march)


Another video of the same tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G402SVtnAIU

Finally a typical jazz standard played by Raf Montrasio and Davide facchini:

How high the moon – Raf Montrasio & Davide Facchini

Additional Information

Official website Renato Carosone: http://www.renatocarosone.it/

Wikipedia about Renato Carosone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Carosone

Duo Anita and Davide: www.anitadavideduo.com

Davide Facchini: www.myspace.com/davidefacchini

Myspace page of Raf Montrasio: www.myspace.com/rafmontrasio

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