Artist
JET
Carlo Marrale (guitar, vocals)
Piero Cassano (keyboards)
Aldo Stellita (bass, vocals)
Renzo "Pucci" Cochis (drums)
Their name is very popular among Italian music collectors because from their ashes came the commercial pop group Matia Bazar, and also among prog collectors because of their LP rarity.
Jet (or J.E.T. as their name was usually written) were formed in Genova at the beginning of the 70's from a previous band of the same name that also included later members of another pop band, Ricchi e Poveri. The group made their debut in 1971 at the radio contest "Un disco per l'estate" with their first single Vivere in te, and two other singles a year later, Non la posso perdonare and Il segno della pace, were still in a melodic pop style.
Their first album, Fede speranza carità, also in 1972, derives from a radical turn in their musical style, to the then popular progressive rock, and is a very good album, with strong hard rock influences and falsetto vocals but with nice use of organ and a solid rhythm section, as in the long Sinfonia per un re that sometimes reminds of New Trolls' multivocal parts and Il prete e il peccatore. Unfortunately this has been their only venture into prog territory, and later singles took them back to a commercial rock not particularly memorable.
In 1974 the band added a female voice (Antonella Ruggiero) and a new drummer (Giancarlo Golzi from Museo Rosenbach) changing name to Matia Bazar and starting a very long and successful career that, through many line-up changes, lasted up to the present.
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| Fede speranza carità | Durium (MS-A 77307) | 1972 | gatefold cutout cover with paste-on shaped cup |
| AMS/BTF (AMS 27LP) | 2010 | reissue of the 1972 album in 400 copies with cutout gatefold cover reproducing the original - later with standard non-cutout gatefold cover and black (2019) then purple (2022) vinyl | |
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| J.E.T. | Durium (NDCD 219) | 1995 | compilation of singles tracks + the full 1972 album - now deleted |
| Fede speranza carità | Vinyl Magic (VM 057) | 1997 | reissue of 1972 album - now deleted |
| AMS/BTF (AMS 247CD) | 2019 | new reissue with mini-LP gatefold cover and two bonus tracks | |
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SINGLES (with picture sleeves) |
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| Vivere in te Uomo |
Durium (LDA 7711) | 1971 | both unreleased tracks |
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Non la posso perdonare Donna dove sei? |
Durium (LDA 7752) | 1972 | both unreleased tracks |
| Il segno della pace Non la posso perdonare |
Durium (LDA 7758) | 1972 | both unreleased tracks |
| Anikana-o Guarda con i tuoi occhi |
Durium (LDA 7796) | 1973 | both unreleased tracks |
| Gloria gloria Sinfonia per un re |
Durium (LDA 7805) | 1973 | B side also on Fede speranza carità, but here in different version |
| Voodoo woman Satan is waitin' |
Durium (LDA 7818) | 1973 | English version of Anikana-o / Guarda con i tuoi occhi |
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PROMOTIONAL AND JUKEBOX SINGLES (with blank sleeves) |
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| Vivere in te |
Durium (???) | 1971 | jukebox - backed with Loretta Goggi/Sto vivendo senza te |
| Anikana-o |
Durium (LDA 7804) | 1973 | jukebox - backed with Wess & Dori Ghezzi/Tu nella mia vita |
| Gloria gloria |
Durium (LDA 7812) | 1973 | jukebox - backed with Gino Paoli/Un amore di seconda mano |
Fede speranza carità is a very rare album, on Durium
label, and due to the small
pressing and the delicate cover it's almost impossible to find mint copies. The
gatefold cover has a cutout on the front for a thick glued-on shaped glass
that's in the inner.
The first italian vinyl reissue came out in 2010 in a limited edition on AMS, with a cutout cover faithfully reproducing the original. The same label later reissued the album with a standard non-cutout gatefold cover.
The album had been previously reissued with the original cover
design both in Japan (King K28P716) and Korea (Si-Wan SRML 2010
- only 1000 copies, later ones came with a single cover). The Korean issue also includes an extra track, the ballad Gloria gloria,
from a 1973 single.
No counterfeits exist.
The record was reissued on CD in Italy in 1997 and again in 2019, the latter with mini-LP gatefold cover and two bonus tracks from singles, Gloria gloria and Guarda coi tuoi occhi.
In 2005 a new Japanese CD official reissue (BMG Japan
BVCM-37588) was released with a mini LP gatefold cover that faithfully
reproduced the original.
The track Non la posso perdonare was released on
two different singles, in 1972. As most singles tracks this was never included on LP.
The single Anikana-o/Guarda coi tuoi occhi was also issued in France by Durium (2C006-94371) with a different picture cover and in Greece (Durium D 34916) with company sleeve.
Anikana-o was also released in Mexico in a spanish language version on Gamma (no.G-1250). The
same track, as well as its original B-side, had also been issued in Italy in
1973 in an English-sung version, retitled Voo doo woman.
A compilation on Durium, entitled Canzoni d'estate (MS-A 77272, year 1971) includes Vivere in te and Uomo, from Jet's first single.
The cassette tape version of Fede speranza carità (cat.no. MD-A 215) is particularly interesting for the cover sporting an unreleased colour picture of the group, totally different from the LP cover design. The same picture has been later reused for a budget-price CD compilation issued in 1995 and including the full album along with singles tracks.
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Fede speranza carità - LP and label |
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Fede speranza carità - inner gatefold |
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Fede speranza carità - cassette tape |
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Vivere in te - 7" single cover |
Non la posso perdonare - 7" single cover |
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Il segno della pace - 7" single cover |
Anikana-o - 7" single cover |
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Gloria, gloria - 7" single cover |
Voo doo woman - 7" single cover |
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Anikana-o - 7" single (Mexico) |
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J.E.T. - CD |
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Many thanks to Mauro Degrassi and Giorgio Murillo Tsijili for some of the info and pictures included in this page.
