Clarinett

A solo album for clarinet inevitably becomes a test on the clarinet, on it's expressive power andon the musician's mastery in playing it. Especially if the musician plays a contemporary repertoirethat is made up of works that follow two different visions. One pays an obsessive attention to the peculiar features of the instrument, the other is apparently more indifferent to the technical limits of execution of the musical score. With his album Gian Maria Matteucci aims to unify the two visions trying to perform the score pointing out the clarinet related features.

"På tittelsporet til “Carla. The Fish” finnes det et tematisk sitat fra en komposisjon av Carla Bley (amerikanske pianist og komponist). Min låt hadde først tittelen “Sitatfusk”. Ved annonsering før fremføring av denne endret jeg tittelen der og da til “Sitatfisk”, siden det ikke er fusk å sitere andre når det sies hvem man siterer. Og det gjorde jeg. Jeg hadde jo bare fisket opp noen strofer fra havet av musikk. Begeistret for låta, fremføringen, tittelen “Sitatfisk” og Carla Bley kom en finsk kvinne til scenen og fortalte at kala betyr fisk på finsk. Klart at min komposisjon umiddelbart ble omdøpt til “Carla. The Fish”. Sitatet er i komposisjonens mellomparti, det såkalte stikket (the Bridge) blant musikere."

Fasten your seat belt, please. Get ready for the full tilt, barely tamed, beautiful monster that is Gard Nilssen’s sixteen-piece Supersonic Orchestra. Audacious and experimentalist, like everything the Norwegian drummer and composer touches, Supersonic flouts convention and, in particular, realigns the longstanding relationship between pre-composition and improvisation in orchestral jazz. If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours, its debut, was recorded live at the adventurous Molde International Jazz Festival in 2019, where Nilssen was Artist in Residence. The band’s uniquely configured, all-star lineup features three drummers, three double bassists and ten horn players, most of them saxophonists. It is a big band, Jim, but not as we know it.