Bass Extremes

Bassist Victor Wooten began his musical career early. At age three, his brother Regi taught him to play bass, and at age five he made his stage debut with his four older brothers in the Wootens, playing songs by R&B mainstays like James Brown, Sly & the Family Stone, War, and Curtis Mayfield.

Luca Flores (Palermo 1956 - Montevarchi 1995), was Italian jazz pianist and composer. Born in Palermo in 1956, he began playing the piano at 5 years. After traveling around the world because of the work of his father, the young Luca lost his dear mother Jolanda in a car accident; this event profoundly marked his life. Luca played with great musicians of his era: Chet Baker, Dave Holland, Massimo Urbani, Tullio de Piscopo, Lee Konitz, Bruno Tommaso, Paolo Fresu, Furio di Castri, Steve Grossman, Kenny Wheeler, Tony Scott, David Murray….

After stints in afro pop, Kari Ikonen’s Finnish background has now drawn him to the wintertime. Spaces of biting cold and horror, of inhumanity and transience – these are the fundamentals of the Ikonen Trio’s third studio album. The band visit ghost towns, disassemble famous waltz motives and enter wondrous shadow world. Into their fifth year, the depth of the trio’s commitment to extremes remains remarkable.

The work of the Catalan pianist Sergi Sirvent, despite the organizational complexity that entails such a wide formation, is a real delight from beginning to end. Inferències and the group that develops it, is an octet conformed by a cast of musicians coming from diverse musical areas of the Barcelona scene. A project to publicize the compositional concerns in large format of one of the most interesting musicians and creators that currently exist in the national jazz scene.