Sound Poetics

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.

Looking at Petrassi's total oeuvre, there are certainly decisive masterpieces to be found among his vocal and chamber music. However, the Concerti for orchestra, composed during a period ranging almost forty years, from 1934 to 1972, is the only group of pieces that complete reflects his artistic quest that passed through a myriad of experiences, providing material for the study of developments in the Italian and European music of the era, seen, naturally, from the personal viewpoint of Petrassi's poetics.

from the CD booklet

Thanks to a certain high ranking Nazi official whose penchant for jazz music caused him to violate the aggressively racist policies of his own government, Django Reinhardt was able to perform his music throughout most of the Occupation without being deported, involuntarily sterilized, or exterminated along with many of his fellow Gypsies. Nevertheless, weary of an imposed police state and shaken by Allied "precision" bombardment of Paris, Reinhardt and his second wife Naguine attempted to flee to Switzerland by way of Thonon-les-Bains at Lac Leman in 1943. Apprehended and jailed at Thonon, they were set free by the same fortuitous fluke in the Nazi establishment. Given the disruptive nature of these harrowing circumstances, it is not surprising that the only recordings known to have been made with Reinhardt in attendance during the year 1944 are three sides cut on November 3…

Despite the fact that pianist and composer Paul Bley had been a renowned and innovative jazzman for nearly 20 years, 1973 saw the release of his most mature and visionary work. This is one of the most influential solo piano recordings in jazz history, and certainly one that defined the sound of the German label ECM. Consisting of seven tracks, five of which were composed by Carla Bley (his ex-wife) and Annette Peacock (soon to be his ex-wife), and two originals, Bley showcased his newfound penchant for the spatial pointillism and use of silence that came to define his mature work. In Carla Bley's "Ida Lupino," the pianist took the song's harmonics and unwound them from their source, deepening the blues elements, brushing the Errol Garnerish ostinato with pastoral shades and textures of timbral elegance, and reaching the tonic chords in the middle register just as he forced the improvisation just barely into the abstract with his right hand…