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Romano Mussolini: "Il Duce's son who played the Jazz," the second part.


( Romano with the accordion in Ischia with Calise center)

Piero Montanari
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He was shy, I said, but joyful and jolly fellow, prone to "cazzeggiano", always ready with a joke, a joke to tell and with the want to laugh. Was terrified of everything that could be serious. It seemed he never wanted to deepen the arguments or engage too much, as if light always sail over all the awkward situations with his neurosis that compelled him to reduce everything, even when presented with problems to solve.

Because of this timidity was a bit 'awkward and often clumsy, but in front of the piano was transformed into a powerful musician and driver. He played jazz piano and he played beautifully without ever having studied in the conventional sense. His musical paths were others learned how to play, as they say, listening to jazz records that his brother Victor, a great fan of the genre, had given him. It was precisely those 'Victory disc', the disc V as they were called at the time, one of the good things come with the Americans, along with the chocolate and chewing gum. The Americans, the "freerer" liberators that drove Hitler and fascist Italy and Europe. IV discs were soaked in the music that our country had just heard, because of autarchy and fascist xenophobia. That music really liked a new Roman Empire and conquered it, much to care if fascism had formal notice and, somehow, stupidly tried to Italianize ("St. Louis Blues" and "Honeysuckle Rose" had become for the twenty years of "The sorrows of St. Louis" and "Pepe's on the roses").

Thus Romano, confined to the end of the war in Ischia with the rest of his family (Donna Rachel, Anna, Victor and Edda) began to seriously passionate about the piano in his home and who also played twelve hours a day . Later, as we said in the first part, entered the complessino Ugo Calise, the songwriter Ischia, also a big fan of jazz.

(Romano in the arms of his father)

Actually Mussolini from the music had always been a place of honor, if only for disks that use the leader was 'playing' when he came home the evening after his office. - They were jazz records - says Roman, - my father loved - and never add that to the rest of Italy was not allowed to listen to them. And then the captain played the violin. The story of this violin belonged to Mussolini has become state law: it seems to circulate in the world at least a dozen, two or three of dubious origin and perhaps all other authenticated by the Roman ... A little tricksy? It may be, is unknown, and it is with sincere affection that reveals some little trick that allowed Roman not to live in the bill, as it was he used to live.

Throughout his life he had to deal with economic problems and solve them in its own way as he could. One day the father of the violin, the other clocks signed by him, and another at the pictures. Sure, there was music and there were concerts, but not always enough money, especially to him complaining of having family dependents.