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Nino Rota's "Il Casanova di Federico Fellini" is the most experimental and adventurous soundtrack ever composed for a Fellini's film. The historical setting was just an excuse to free both Rota and Fellini creativity and embrace their artistic anarchy. Ennio Morricone, Alexandre Desplat and Rota's heir Francesco Lombardi tell us why.

Introducing "Christmas in Italy", the perfect soundtrack to your festive season carefully selected from the CAM Sugar archive featuring Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni, Nino Rota, and more.

Tourists and passers-by relived the magic of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita as Ennio Morricone's orchestra played an impromptu performance of the Nino Rota film theme for the Oscar-winning masterpiece starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg.

Paparazzi, divas, nuns and jazz clubs: Rome means Dolce Vita. We take a journey into the the city that defined the iconography of Federico Fellini's masterpiece and inspired the unique blend of genres of its timeless motion picture soundtrack by Nino Rota.

Among these formidable soloists, one above all blesses the compilation: Chet Baker. 

Baker, an icon going beyond music alone, lived one of his most rocambolesque and artistically peculiar seasons in the Belpaese. When touring the country in the summer of 1959, he opted to stay won not only by the beauty of the place but also by the energetic and adventurous jazz scene. Given his precarious financial conditions, constantly undermined by his weakness for drugs, Italian jazz musicians made a great show of solidarity by including the American trumpeter and singer in their orchestras and sessions.