Library composer Romolo Grano

From discogs:

Italian composer, conductor, pianist, cellist, oboe and cor anglais player.
Born in Venezia. Studied at Conservatorio B. Marcello di Venezia.

Some very experimental music and some very generic music, all mixed together.  I guess recently Canopo put together a bunch of themed compilations of his old library music in which many styles are mixed.  The rym discography is a little bit more complete with these later albums.  Nonetheless he was unbelievably prolific.  The more modern stuff is virtually abstract musique concrete really, while the one soundtrack (L'amaro Caso etc.) is so generic as to make me want to weep, and wonder if it was written by a computer program with all the right arrangements for orchestra, themes, etc. Of course with these movie productions that's exactly what they want, lest they lose any money at all at the box office from a wrongly placed note or two.  God forbid you'd offend anyone's ears. Which in fact he was guilty of often enough in the early 70s library stuff (eg most of the tracks on Contempora).

From the Topical CD compilation, the Space Machine:

From the 1969 Religioni Vol.1, Omaggio al '700:

Jana Koubková, Jazz Q Martina Kratochvíla - Mini Jazz Klub 38 (CZE 1984 Single)

 

This single contains some really nice tracks on it with the inimitable Jazz Q. I've added a compilation of her material for those interested, limited time only though.

Zly Sen:

Horký Dech Jany Koubkové - Mini Jazz Klub 23 ‎(CZE 1979 EP) and 1982 LP (Hot Breath of JK)

 

My apologies if this was posted already here, it wouldn't surprise me at all if I was starting to repeat myself. On the other hand if it wasn't posted here before I would be a little surprised.

The first track from the EP, which isn't included in the later LP, features her crazy and slightly annoying jazz vocal 'stylings':

Erich Bachträgl, Uli Rennert, Jeff Wohlgenannt, Mike Gottwald – Gollum (Austria 1981)

 

Some lovely jazzy fusion with very nice composed tracks, similar mostly to the recent Australian Brian Brown 70s stuff.  Info here.

Title Track:

Andre Ceccarelli (with Bernard Arcadio) and Project One, by Request, plus multiple others from him

 

I guess this man needs no introduction, discography here.  He did make one of my all-time favourite library records which is Rythmes, and I would pray every day to the gods of progressive rock and fusion that he had made a million more like it because it's a home run on every single track.

On top of that he was in many of my favourite fusion outings including Synthesis, Structure, Working Progress and the underappreciated but wonderful Troc. 

Then, on his own in 1977 he made two self-titled albums which really went far into the commercial direction, which you can't blame any musician for doing, who wants to be poor and unknown but creative instead of rich and famous in that particular sphere of pop culture? Especially when the riches and fame, for a star musician, can be so immense both in money and females.

From the 1977 Ceccarelli, one of the few very creatively original compositions is Space Out:

Thereafter he made two even more commercial albums with the band called Bad News Travels Fast, where there is really nothing of note in my opinion.

In 1981 he started a collaboration with pianist Bernard Arcadio with his ST album which continued through many albums throughout the 80s. Difficult for me to know if something so late can be any good, others will know more than me, you can see Bernard's library discography here.

Project One from 1985, with info here, is a surprisingly well composed set of library instrumental tracks, a couple of all-percussion pieces (Din Dou), with creative chord changes, interesting melodies and highly varied themes too, the only detraction perhaps is the digital keyboards used for all the arrangements.  For ex. the first track Garrance which gives you an idea of what I mean: