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Gianni Basso- Quartetto Gianni Basso (Vinyl) Steve Poltz Blur's Graham Coxon and FranzVinyl LP pressing of this 1981 release. Gianni Basso represents one of the most solid institutions of Italian Jazz. He has been like this since the beginning, when he appeared in Milan after some years abroad. At that time, he already had a long story behind him as an activist jazz musician: he started playing during his childhood in his hometown of Asti (where he was born in 1931) and then in Belgium, where his father emigrated with his family to