"I studied dramatic arts when I was seven. At thirteen I entered the Paris Music Conservatory, city where my family has been living in definitively in 1947. I studied classical music, but I was more fond of jazz and popular music. In 1950 I was accompanying famous "vedettes" on their international tours, but my biggest illusion was not to be an accompanying but to form my own orchestra to do what I liked. Only in 1959 I could turn my drem into a reality. It turns out that while being in New York some friends introduce me to Ray Ventura. I explain to him my projects, I told him what I wanted to do: an orchestra with my own style, "Caravelli style". I got carried away and beat around the bushes. Suddenly I readlized what I was doing. I stood up, turn around and left. That wasn't working. But it looks like Ventura didn't thought the same: next week he looked for me, himslef and I signed a contract. That's how the actual Caravelli was born. Everything else, was just a matter of time and sacrifices."

 (Caravelli, pseudonimo di Claude Vasori, direttore d'orchestra, compositore, arrangiatore, pianista; Parigi, 12 settembre 1930 – Le Cannet, 1º aprile 2019)