Carlo Loffredo is considered the father of Italian jazz musicians. His father's family was from the Molise (Castellino del Biferno, province of Campobasso), his mother was Neapolitan. His father was a naval officer who was transfered to the Ministry in Rome. When he was young he started to listen to jazz: "When I was 6 or 7 - he says - at night I woke up to listen to Hilversum station at that colossal radio, which broadcasted American jazz". "I saved up money for tram and snacks and I cached it to buy records". Loffredo started in the 40's, after war. "That was enthusiasm jazz" he says. In 1942 began to play with an university Fascist quintet for war casualties. Then he was engaged by the Americans, and then by the Britishes. First American big bands that he eared were military. For example he saw Ray McKinley in Rome with a military band. In 1946, at Florence, he created his first little band, to go around olaying with English company in Italian soldiers' camps. He used so-called "V-Discs", now unobtainable, that is pieces recorded to keep up troops' spirit. "In those records there was everything, classical music, Gershwin, singer Ezio Pinza, Benny Goodman and Armstrong evidently, Lena Horn, Ella Fitzgerald... The beautiful was all these musicians recorded V-Discs for the soldiers for free". Loffredo went on building his own bands. One with Nunzio Rotondo, trumpeter become one of the best in Europe, established only for the Americans, with a lawyer, Walter Cianfrocca, who played piano. In 1947 his quintet won at Prague's jazz festival. Other important awards in Moscow in 1957 and in Wien in 1959. He founded, in the 50's the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band, which he renewed in 1952 and conducted for 15 years, having a run of successes and consents. For Rca he recorded “Petit fleur” which marked a sales record for jazz discs: 250.000 LPs sold. In the 50's his name was linked to “Roman New Orleans Jazz Band” and to the artistic collaboration with many international musicians, a golden age which went on until the 70's. He managed and brought out an endless number of jazz musicians, like Vincenzo Barbato, Massimo Catalano, Carlo Ficini, Romano Mussolini, Eddie Palermo, Michele Pavese, Roberto Podio, Jimmy Polosa, Nunzio Rotondo, Gianni Sanjust, Luca Velotti. He played with all the greatest jazz musicians in the world: Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, i Four Fresmen, Dizzy Gillespie, Stephan Grappelli, Bobby Hachett, Earl “father” Hines, i Mills Brother, Albert Nicholas, Oscar Peterson, Django Reinhardt, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson. Allergic to recording labels which often "make buy copies in exchange for recording" but also polemic against cultural istitutions or with information organs which often snob jazz.