Napoli Centrale is an Italian jazz-rock group, founded in Naples in 1975.
Napoli Centrale is an Italian jazz-rock group, founded in Naples in 1975.
The musical project was founded by musicians James Senese and Franco Del Prete, who following the disbandment of their previous R&B band The Showmen (later known as Showmen 2) wanted to pursue a different musical path. [1] The style of the band is characterized by a mixture between rock, folk, jazz and blues, with lyrics in Neapolitan language which often deal with social themes. [1] The group got an immediate commercial and critical success with its first eponymous album and its first single "Campagna", representing a significant exception to the other successful Italian bands of the time, either dedicated to progressive rock or characterized by a melodic and romantic repertoire. [2]
Shortly later the release of their first album, bassist Tony Walmsley and keyboardist Mark Harris left the band to join Il Rovescio della Medaglia, and it started a period of numerous lineup changes, which also briefly saw Pino Daniele as bassist. [2] In the early 1980s Senese pursued a solo career, putting the band on hyatus. [1] [2] Senese reconstituted the band in the early 1990s, with Savio Riccardi, Gigi De Rienzo and Agostino Marangolo. [1] In 1992 they released their comeback album Jesceallah, in which Art Ensemble of Chicago members Lester Bowie and Don Moye collaborated. [1]
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