Sheet music by Nini Rosso

Nini Rosso, bourgeois: Raffaele Celeste Rosso, was an Italian jazz trumpeter and composer. When his parents planned an academic career for him and opposed his career as a trumpet player, he left home at the age of 19, not yet of full age at the time. An employment in a nightclub was terminated by the police, who brought him back home. Nevertheless, he was finally able to assert himself against his parents.

He founded a small band with which he went on an international tour and soon established his reputation as the best jazz trumpeter in Italy.

At the beginning of the 1960s he landed in Italy with pieces like La ballata della tromba and the self-composed Concerto disperato Hits. The last title became internationally known as the title music of the film Marschier oder krepier (with Stewart Granger). In Germany this recording was released by the German label Italia.

With the instrumental trumpet piece Il Silenzio he had his biggest hit in 1965. The piece was a world hit, sold ten million copies and led the charts in numerous countries, including Germany, where it was the hit of the year[2], Austria and Switzerland.