Derby Club

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Derby Club was a musical and comedy club located in Milan, Italy.

The club was founded in the late 1950s by Gianni Bongioanni as a restaurant named "Gi-Go" in which live jazz music was occasionally played. [1] [2] [3] It turned into a nightclub in 1962, when thanks to the involvement of jazz musician Enrico Intra was renamed "Intra’s Derby Club" (later just "Derby Club") after the Inter Milan-A.C. Milan football derby, and started focusing on jazz music and cabaret performances. [1] [2] [3]

The club became a meeting place for a very diverse audience, and actively contributed to the launch of several artists' careers, including Enzo Jannacci, Cochi Ponzoni and Renato Pozzetto (aka Cochi e Renato), Paolo Villaggio, Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bisio, Giorgio Faletti, I Gufi, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli, Lino Toffolo, Paolo Rossi, Antonio Catania, Gianfranco Funari, Giobbe Covatta, Enrico Beruschi, Felice Andreasi, Francesco Salvi, Enzo Iacchetti, Walter Valdi. [1] [2] [3] [4] Among artists who performed there were also Dario Fo, Charles Trenet, Amália Rodrigues, Ornella Vanoni, Gino Paoli, Gabriella Ferri, Bruno Lauzi, Franco Califano, Quartetto Cetra. [1] In the 1980s the club started declining, eventually closing in 1985. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Bassignano, Ernesto; Cantore, Lalla (1990). "Derby Club". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore. p. 533. (in Italian)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cappa, Felice; Gelli, Piero; Mattarozzi, Marco (1998). "Derby Club". Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900 (in Italian). Baldini & Castoldi. pp. 329–30. ISBN   978-88-8089-295-3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Crippa, Stefano (26 August 2016). "Derby, gli anni da ridere di Milano". Il manifesto . Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  4. ↑ Dagradi, Danilo (5 February 2020). "Derby Club: C'era Una Volta Un Luogo Magico". Milanodavedere.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2023.

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