Till Brönner: L'unica chance

Never one to rest on the laurels of his gorgeously burnished trumpet sound, German trumpeter Till Bronner is always chasing new ideas and fresh sources of inspiration. Lately, that search has brought him back to the country where he grew up and spent some of his formative years: Italy.

The album Italia is the fruit of Brönner's collaboration with internationally acclaimed producer Nicola Conte. Together, they make a compelling case for Italian popular music as part of the jazz "canon"—alongside, say, Brazilian music—by reimagining well-and lesser-known Italian songs and soundtracks from the 1960s through the early 1980s. A cheeky deep-cut is "L'unica chance," a cult song by Italian singer-songwriter and actor Adriano Celentano recorded in 1973, which has found new life in the TikTok era thanks to a video of Celentano dueling on the dance floor with Lola Falana, the Tony-nominated American singer, dancer, and actress who became a sensation in Italy in the late '60s and early '70s.

Probably the only dance-floor hit to ever call out the food industry's impact on consumers' health, "L'unica chance" gets a fresh spin here. Till Brönner revives both its anti-consumeristic message and its bass-driven funky simmer, spotlighting another American expat, Berlin-based singer Sera Kalo. Brönner's trumpet solo and Conte's sleek production do the rest, ensuring you'll put this song on repeat.

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