Artist

NAPOLI CENTRALE

1974-75
James Senese (sax, flute, vocals)
Mark Harris (keyboards)
Tony Walmsley (bass)
Franco Del Prete (drums, percussion)

1975
Harris and Walmsley quit, replaced by:
Ciro Ciscognetti (keyboards)
Pino Daniele (bass)

1976
Ciscognetti and Daniele replaced by:
Pippo Guarnera (keyboards)
Kelvin Bullen (bass)

Napoli Centrale were formed by the nucleus of Showmen after the band's split, when James Senese and Franco Del Prete, along with american keyboardist Mark Harris and english bass player Tony Walmsley veered toward a personal blend of jazz-rock and popular music leaving any traces of prog behind them. 

With lyrics sung in neapolitan dialect, the first single Campagna became a hit. 
The six-track debut album was in a similar style, the strong lyrics dealing with social problems while the music was sometimes very original. 
After the LP release, bassist Tony Walmsley left the band to join the reformed Rovescio della Medaglia, and was soon followed by Mark Harris, they were replaced by Ciro Ciscognetti from Fabio Celi & gli Infermieri and a young Pino Daniele on bass, later a popular solo artist.
The band had a good live activity and also played the Montreux jazz festival in Switzerland.

A second album was released in 1976, with help from many well-known session musicians among which drummers Bruno Biriaco (Perigeo) and Agostino Marangolo (Flea and Goblin), and was in the same style as the first one.

Third album came in 1977, with the founding duo helped by other musicians, and was more jazz-oriented than their previous works.

After the band split James Senese started a short solo career with two albums, while both him and Del Prete have had a good career as session musicians.
Keyboardist Mark Harris, still living in Italy, has launched his own record label, Saint Rock, to promote new italian artists (see link below).

A revamped line-up of Napoli Centrale was created by James Senese in the late 80's, with Savio Riccardi (keyboards), Gigi De Rienzo (bass) and Agostino Marangolo (drums). This line-up released two albums, Jesceallah in 1992, including reworkings of early tracks, and 'Ngazzate nire in 1994. Another album followed in 2001, entitled Zitte! Sta venenn' 'o mammone.

In 2005 neapolitan rock writer Carmine Aymone has published Je stò ccà.....James Senese, a book with a bonus CD with 6 tracks, produced by the independent label Suonidelsud (see link at the bottom of the page and the Books section for more details).

(the trolley icon lets you order the CD from BTF website)

LP
Napoli Centrale	Ricordi (SMRL 6159)	1975	gatefold cover - early copies included a sticker
	Ricordi/Orizzonte (ORL 8201)	80's	single cover
Mattanza	Ricordi (SMRL 6187)	1976	gatefold cover
	Ricordi/Orizzonte (ORL 8349)	80's	single cover
Qualcosa ca nun more	Ricordi (SMRL 6224)	1977	gatefold cover
CD
Napoli Centrale	BMG (MPCD 32948-2)	1995	reissue of 1975 album
	BMG (74321 86015-2)	90's	as above
Mattanza	BMG (74321 89028-2)	90's	reissue of 1976 album
Qualcosa ca nun more	BMG (74321 44157-2)	90's	reissue of 1977 album
Jesceallah	Blue Angel (BAR 40592)	1992
'Ngazzate nire	Blue Angel (FDM 70494)	1994
Zitte! Sta venenn' 'o mammone	Sony (PDG 5030512)	2001
SINGLES (with picture sleeve)
Campagna Vico Primo Parise n.8	Ricordi (SRL 10756)	1975	both tracks from Napoli Centrale, here in shorter versions

All the Napoli Centrale albums are not difficult to find, the only rarity being the first LP with the original yellow sticker that was on the shrink (but some early copies also contained another sticker into the cover). 
The single had the same cover as the LP, but the sticker logo was printed in this case.

No counterfeit exists, nor foreign reissues.

Former Napoli Centrale keyboardist Mark Harris' label, Saint Rock, has a website at http://www.saintrock.com 
The independent label Suonidelsud, that produced the CD Je stò ccà enclosed as bonus with the eponymous book on James Senese, has an Internet website at www.suonidelsud.it