Lennart Axelsson, 'Parlami d'Amore, Mariù' (Cesare Bixio)

Lennart Axelsson (1941) is a Swedish trumpet player who has spent a good part of his career in Germany. Born and raised in Sweden, he began his career in a Swedish armed forces band. Disillusioned with military life, he quit to become a full-time musician, playing with various jazz bands in Sweden. In the early 1970s, he moved to Zürich, Switzerland to take a job in the big band of Swiss radio station Schweizer Radio DRS. In 1974, he joined the James Last Orchestra. He was one of the featured trumpet soloists on Last's 1975 album 'In The Mood For Trumpets', along with Rick Kiefer and Ack van Rooyen; this was notable as Last's record company Polydor usually did not credit the individual personnel on Last's studio recordings. In 1979, Axelsson left the Last band and joined the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk, or North German Radio) big band, where he eventually became the featured trumpet soloist. He retired from the NDR band in 2005.

Written by Cesare Bixio (1896-1978), one of the most popular Italian songwriters of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with lyrics by the Italian composer and poet Ennio Neri (1891-1985), 'Parlami d'Amore, Mariù' (Speak to Me of Love, Mariù') is the main theme of the musical film 'What Scoundrels Men Are!' (1932), in which the great Italian actor, singer and director Vittorio De Sica sings this song to the lovely Lia Franca (Mariuccia).

With scenes from the movie 'The Lake House' (2006), starred by Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

Recorded in the album 'Trompeten Träume (Trumpet Dreams) - The Golden Trumpet' (2006).

Check Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras' touching rendition of 'Parlami d'Amore, Mariù':

https://youtu.be/wrrSlHt8SwM

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