Top improvisers, some amazing guitarists and a quiet piano player are among the standout jazz acts on offer this month.

Fabio Brum from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra shows us how he produces the sound from Ennio Morricone’s much-loved film score. Filmed backstage at the Royal Albert Hall for Classic ...

On what would have been Ennio Morricone’s 96th birthday, MOJO salutes Il Maestro with our expert guide to his greatest work. ... with Ennio often directing and always on trumpet. This particular album ...

With his substantial documentary “Ennio,” director Giuseppe Tornatore — who worked with Morricone for nearly all his films, including 1988’s “Cinema Paradiso” — turns an overdue ...

Morricone died in 2020 at age 91, pre-writing his own three-sentence obituary, the first sentence of which was: “I, Ennio Morricone, am dead.” Most of the composer interview footage Tornatore ...

Morricone’s father was a professional trumpet player who wanted Ennio to follow in his footsteps. So in 1940, when he was 12, Ennio entered the Saint Cecilia Conservatory and learned to play the ...

Morricone’s father, Mario, was a trumpet player, and soon Ennio was playing it, too. He began composing music as a child and studied it formally at a conservatory in Rome, where one of his ...

(As an old photograph shows, they were schoolboys together.) “Ennio” confirms the legend that Morricone’s score was played on set during the shooting of Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in ...

Ennio, this warm if unwieldy portrait of the composer by his friend and collaborator Giuseppe Tornatore – director of Cinema Paradiso, a film powered along by one of Morricone’s best-known ...

While Mario played the trumpet at outdoor cafés, the young Ennio collected the coins that were thrown. It was an early and tough lesson in the relationship between commerce and art.