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CAPO D'ASTRO

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Paolo Birro and classical standards from American songbook Paolo Birro, grandpiano 20 Bit Digital Recording. Live in studio at Istituto La Montanina, Velo d'Astico (Vicenza, Italy). May, 1998 This work was recorded in the library of a wonderful nineteenth-century villa once home of the famous Italian writer Fogazzaro. The enchanting atmosphere of its pinewood and the delightful dawns can be felt throughout the recording. Paolo Birro caresses the keys of a magnificent Arthur Rubinstein's 1930 Steinway&Sons D 274 Grandpiano. Pieces by C.Porter, I.Berlin, Gershwin, J. Kern and others, with the addition of original works written by the pianist himself.

TRIOS

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Mauro Negri, Simone Guiducci Mauro Negri, clarinets / Simone Guiducci, guitars / Fausto Beccalossi, accordion / Achille Succi, bass clarinet / Luigi Sabanelli, basson / Alan Farrington, vocal / Marco Remondini, cello / Andrea Lease, french horn / Carlo Cantini, violin 20 Bit Digital Recording. Live in studio at Teatreno (Mantova, Italy). May, 1998 Mauro Negri, clarinet, and Simone Guiducci, guitar, make up a close (harmonious) duet responsible for this project that revisits original jazz pieces whose origins can be found in the Italian tradition - "a borderline jazz..." writes Marco Cicogna on Audio Review - carried out with a different special guest (musician) playing in every piece. The list is enriched by the presence of clarinet, bass, violoncello, accordion, bassoon, horn and the voice, here used as an instrument.

DIALOGHI

€ 15,00

Original compositions by Massimo Parente, Giancarlo Berlen, Benny Golson, Steve Swallow, Bill Evans The Trio: Massimo Parente, grandpiano / Giancarlo Berlen, drums / Pasquale Gadaleta, doublebass / Special Guests: Gaetano Guastamacchia, clarinet / Luigi Ciani, guitar / String Orchestra Tommaso Traetta, Vito Clemente, conductor. 20 Bit Digital Recording. Live in studio at Studio Cavalieri (Bari, Italy). July, 1998.  A jazz classic trio, a great wind orchestra and a bunch of soloists (clarinet, guitar, violin, violoncello) get together, giving birth to a superb performance that ranges from the highest levels of standard American jazz to the original music that the two creators composed precisely for the project, to the traditional sounds of Puglia, homeland of the band. The result is a crossover of many different genres of music that, always keeping jazz as the leading inspiration, make their way through classic sound. NOT AVAILABLE

GUARDA AVANTI

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Sax Four Fun, William Tononi, Paolo Fresu, Bill Lee, Carla Bley, Paul F.Mitchell Sax Four Fun, saxophone quartet / Special guest: Pepito Ros, soprano sax 24Bit / 96 kHz Digital Recording. Live in studio at Sala Polivalente Abano Terme (Padova, Italy). July, 1999 A band of four saxophonists. In this CD, their second, the band strengthen and ratify their style, achieving perfection in its form of expression, a warm groove in their fastest pieces and a bewitching dimension in the ballads. "... A collage where irony and calm join together in a flowing river of fantasy, ending up melting new kaleidoscopic structures that open up to pleasure and joy...", write the critic Vittorio Albani.

LEONI E ALTRI GATTI

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Henning Sieverts, Pietro Tonolo, Roberto Dani Pietro Tonolo, saxophones / Henning Sieverts, doublebass and cello / Roberto Dani, drums and percussions 24Bit / 96 kHz Digital Recording. Live in studio at Torresino Theatre (Padova, Italy). July, 1998  Henning Sieverts is a young but already well-known German jazzman, a cellist and a double bass player but, most of all, a long time friend of Pietro Tomolo. Their common passion and love for Venice is the seed from which the main suite of this record sprang up. The guest presence of the drummer Roberto Dani and his endless repertoire of rhythms and tones highlights the extraordinary quality of the recording, whose fascinating and warm sounds were achieved using 24 Bit technology in an empty small theatre of Padua.

PLANETARIUM

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Gianni Pirollo Gianni Pirollo, clarinet and alto clarinet / Luca Rossetti, piano / Beppe Gioacchini, percussions / Aldo Lucchini, doublebass 24Bit / 96 kHz Digital Recording. Live in studio at Studio Papillons (Padova, Italy). February, 2000  This is how the authors describe their work: "Our music seeks clarity, melody, smoothness, an interior harmony that recalls the floating of the same planets to which in many pieces the Author refers. We can therefore assist to the melting of pure melody into an improvised paroxysm (Prisma) or to the centripetal whirling of a piece whose stillness hides a desire of escape towards outer worlds (Epicentro)..."

SERENGETI

€ 13,50

Original compositions by Oscar Del Barba Oscar del Barba, grandpiano / Mauro Negri, clarinets / Markus Stokhausen, trumpet and Fluegelhorn / Sara Michieletto, violin / Paolo Pasoli, viola / Nicola Boscaro, cello / Gianaldo Tatone, second violin 24Bit / 96 kHz Digital Recording. Live in studio at Pollini Auditorium (Padova, Italy). March - April, 2000 The perfect synthesis of modern music mixed with echoes of jazz, brushes of classical music, tastes of ethnic music and bits of experimental music. Nine original pieces by Oscar del Barba, brilliant Italian pianist and composer. Special guest at the trumpet and the flugelhorn, Markus Stockhausen. All the sessions, which are spontaneous and extremely realistic, were recorded live in the studio at the Pollini Auditurium, Padua.

RADIO DAYS

€ 13,50

Standards from Italian and American Swing Age, '40 and '50 years. The Metronomes: Francesco Michielin, vocal / Carlo Piccoli, piano / Stefano Fedato, drums / Special Guests: Marco Strano, saxophones / Michele Giacomazzi, guitars / Marco Pasetto, soprano sax / Gianni Pirollo, clarinet / The Diapa Sons, chorus 24Bit / 96 kHz Digital Recording. Live in studio at Studio Papillons (Padova, Italy). January, 2000  The Metronomes' bag of tricks is so profound that it includes a vast repertoire ranging from Italian songs of the 30s and 40s ( "Baciami Piccina, "Mille lire al mese", "Il giovanotto matto, written in 1940 by Lelio Luttazzi in his first twenties), to those of the following years ("Conosci mia cugina"), to American evergreens like Pennies from Heaven, Undecided, Cabaret and even includes modern pieces like Sermonette.