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James Senese & Napoli Centrale - Campagna
If folk music from Naples has rarely met rock, it has always flirted quite a bit with jazz since the days of Carosone.
Perhaps the best synthesis between the two languages is achieved by Napoli Centrale, led by James Senese - Jèmm for the Neapolitans, who have loved him forever - and Franco Del Prete.
Jèmm is the Ciro of "Tammurriata Nera", one of the most authentic Neapolitans I know. Anyone who has frequented the Neapolitan music scene has met him; along with people like the Zurzolo brothers, Tony Cercola, Robert Fix… always ready to share a beer, always willing to give advice, lend a hand, to record and arrange a piece with the young ones (or former young ones, like the writer of these four notes…), almost unaware of the weight and role they have had in the history and development of a certain way of making music not only in Naples.
Jèmm has put Naples at the center between Chicago and Canterbury, consuming an orgiastic rite in which his voice (more than his sax) was the pulsating member that performed the penetration…
From that music and with those musicians (sweetening the former and leaving behind the latter), the "phenomenon" Pino Daniele will emerge a few years later.