Aldo Ortado

Viotti's violin music impresses one as distinctively melodic, enchanting, and elegant within the violin repertoire of all time. And this selection here is especially delightful and graceful, singing with warm, mellow, silken melodies throughout - uncomplicated yet highly refreshing and enjoyable! Very good for refreshment and relaxation.

Fireworks with Aldo Colombini- An explosive combination of easy-to-do yet amazing card magic.
The most popular card routine used by professionals to get audiences involved is a multiple selection and revelation routine. On this DVD Aldo Colombini tips all the work for his version of this classic plot where twelve audience members select cards and you find them using flashy and impossible revelations.
The impromptu routine can be used as part of a show or an entire act. What makes Aldo's version exceptional is his method of controlling the cards. The card control is by far the best, easiest and most direct method ever created. The routine is also structured to allow you to easily adjust for additional or fewer cards depending on the size of your audience.

For a number of years, it has been my convinction that Music (and Art in general) must simply have the humble task of describing its own End, or at the very least, its slow dying out. … Misunderstandings are only created by those who, even unconsciously, think of music as a discourse, and thus, even unawares, as caricature of an arc that describes a useless orgasm. … Everything flows smoothly, even in total immobility. The reality that surrounds us already moves too fast to make us want to imitate it. The end naturally creates a sense of saturation and exhaustion, but it is never definitive: by way of a hopeless inurement, we immediately hasten into the infinite and the eternal.

Aldo Clementi, from sleeve text

Aldo Romano has long proven himself an innovative leader and the 2007 sessions that make up Just Jazz are no exception. Romano is not one to take a lot of solos himself, preferring to showcase his bandmates while adding color behind them. His pianoless quartet consists of clarinetist Mauro Negri, who played on Romano's earlier Dreyfus CD État de Fait, old friend Henri Texier on bass, and the much younger Géraldine Laurent, a gifted French saxophonist whose star is rising. Most of the release focuses on Romano's captivating originals, highlighted by the emotional "Cité-Soleil" (French for "Sun City"), named for the wretched shanty town in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. "Township" is an infectious African-flavored chant, with Laurent's vocal-like alto recalling Eric Dolphy, and Negri's electronically altered clarinet adding seasoning. "Chick Webb," named for the famous swing drummer, has a fun twist in that the bassist is the featured soloist.