Effective period / Period of releases: 1959

Members: Stefano Bagnoli, Bob Valenti, Renato Gerbella, Raffaele Linares, Luciano La Neve, Claudio Clerici, Renzo Clerici, Fabio Mataloni, Giancarlo Garlandini, Jack Russo, Giampiero Compare

Italian jazz group of traditional style.
Born in September 1950 from the meeting of the pianist Fabio Mataloni with trumpeter Swiss Herman Mayer.
In 1953, after realizing some remarkable recordings especially for the rigid approach with to the real New Orleans music,
they inaugurated the first local jazz of Milan: the "Santa Tecla Honky Tonk".
They have taken part in many concerts abroad and the "Velodrome d'Hiver" in Paris the public decreed them a triumph.
At the II° National Jazz Festival held in Rome in 1958, the orchestra won a trophy for best Traditional style group