de Gregori

2007 release. Doctor 3 are back. Absent from the music business since 2003, their return is more precious than ever, because these years of silence have not produced anything similar in the panorama of Italian jazz music. The alchemy of Doctor 3 was and is theirs only, belongs only to the trio, although individual members of the group have given birth to albums of all respects. But – let's face it – it was not the same thing. Blue, irresistibly jazz, is, unlike earlier works, an album decidedly focused on nocturnal atmospheres of rich blue. Here there is minimalism and synthesis, compared to the four previous productions; there is a crystal-clear sound returned in every note, in every agreement, every nuanced harmonic; it is as if the authors so distant in time and space (from Burt Bacharach to Francesco De Gregori, from Damien Rice to Luigi Tenco, from Rodgers and Hart to Mogol/Battisti.

Italy's foremost female rock singer, Gianna Nannini, was born in Siena on June 14, 1956, to a family that included a renowned industrialist and Siena Football Club president father and a Formula One pilot brother. Often described as the creative rebel in the family, Nannini attended the Lucca Conservatory throughout her entire adolescence, where she was trained as a pianist…