Kosmopolites Paolo Fresu

Paolo Fresu Quintet nasce nel 1984 da un progetto di Roberto Cipelli e Paolo Fresu. La volontà di formare un “gruppo stabile che fosse capace di imprimere un marchio di fabbrica alla propria musica” approdò nella costituzione di un gruppo di “amici jazzisti”.

Se è vero che la musica di questo CD è nata per accompagnare due film (Il più crudele dei giorni e L'isola), è altrettanto vero che Paolo Fresu non 'subisce' tale condizione, assemblando i brani in maniera tale da dar vita ad un lavoro unitario, dalla forte identità e tale da sintetizzare varie fasi della sua ormai già lunga carriera.

Fresu was born in Berchidda, Sardinia. He picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda. Fresu graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari in 1984, in trumpet studies under Enzo Morandini, and attended the University of Musical and performing arts in Bologna. Fresu has taught at the Siena Jazz National Seminars, as well as jazz university courses in Terni, and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Italy. Fresu composes music for theatre, poem, dance, radio, television, and film.

Chiaroscuro at once has the feeling of inevitability and a sense of randomness about it, as if it were meant to happen, yet it's such a long shot that it ever did. Towner, the guitarist of the jazz/world/new age outfit Oregon, is an American who celebrated his 70th birthday in the year of this album's release, 2010 – it's his 22nd for ECM. Fresu is an Italian trumpeter, not quite 50, whose only previous ECM connection (among some 300 albums he's appeared on in all) came in 2007 when he worked with pianist/composer Carla Bley on her release The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu.

Paolo Fresu & Furio Di Castri - Fellini (2000) {Audion Recordings Italy CD2 rec 1999}
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© 2000 Audion Recordings Italy / Demidoff | CD2
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Creative / Trumpet / Double Bass

This excellent live record by Paolo Fresu and Furio Di Castri (Audion Recordings label) collects part of the concert which took place in July 1999 at the Enoteca Italiana at the Fortezza Medicea in Siena, at the end of the annual 'Siena Jazz' specialization courses. our two artists are teachers. Fresu and Di Castri are two musicians who have often experimented with their instruments (trumpet and double bass) without ever compromising the lyricism and poetics of their compositions or reinterpretations of classical standards. This LIVE performance made up of songs by the same authors plus some famous covers, only confirms the great musical eclecticism of the two artists who are able to extract absolutely new and unexpected sounds from their instruments, building a precious, unusual and fascinating sound picture.

Italian trumpeters Enrico Rava and Paolo Fresu pay tribute to the late Chet Baker – but take it from us, the set's way more than just a simple tribute album! Some of the tunes might be familiar ones from Chet's book, but the performances here are often distdemoinctly un-Baker-like – taken at times, tempos, and tones that really push the envelope – and which make the album more of a nstration of the instrumental strengths of Rava and Fresu than a return to Chet's earlier sound.