The composer and arranger Otto Cesana was born on July 7, 1899 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy, and died on December 1, 1980 in the city of the county of Bronx, USA. UU.
He was more a member of the huge Italian community of San Francisco. At its height it caused a lot of controversy for his style, which was neither jazz nor pure classical.
Although music expert Leonard Feather included him as a jazz stylist, especially because of his arrangement in the song Symphony Jazz, he still did not fit that style, since it was not common to perform improvisations on his music, a characteristic of jazz.
What stood out in Otto Cesana's arrangements was precisely the influence of classical music, which associated this refinement with the ease of the lightness of his string-dominated music.
Otto Cesana began his musical studies in 1909, quickly learning organ, musical theory, composition, orchestration and harmony. He made compositions and arrangements for the radio stations of the time, as well as for Hollywood studios.
He began debuting his original works in the early 1940s in prestigious places such as the New York City Hall. Hired by the Columbia label along with Ray Conniff.
In 1941, he performed a jazz concert in the \"Town Hall\" of New York with his orchestra performing an original music program. His repertoire features six symphonies, four outings, numerous suites, concerts for various instruments, including piano, clarinet, trumpet and trombone, as well as many small pieces, sonatas, trios and many songs.
Cesana's deep interest in music and music theory can be attributed to her four books, Modern Harmony, Dance Arranging, Modern Counterpoint and Voicing the Modern Dance Orchestras.
The album for this publication, entitled \"Ecstasy\", released in the United States in 1955 by Columbia Records, was also released in Brazil by the CBS label. The disc selection consists of the following
