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I Visionari (album)
''I Visionari'' is an album by Stefano Bollani. Music and recording The core band is a quintet led by pianist Stefano Bollani. The material is mostly instrumentals. Release and reception ''I Visionari'' was released as a double-CD by Label Bleu in 2006. Critic John Fordham wrote: "A kind of Italian Django Bates with a more orthodox lyrical sense, Bollani keeps the surprises coming, wrapped in some fine writing. A good place for newcomers to start." Track listing All songs are by Stefano Bollani, except as noted. Disc A # "La Sicilia" – 6:15 # "Il Fiore Canta e poi Svanisce" – 6:22 # "Visione Numero Uno" – 10:35 # "Carnevale di Dunkerque" – 5:50 # "Storta Va" – 6:39 # "Che Cosa Sono le Nuvole" (Domenico Modugno / Pier Paolo Pasolini) – 4:33 Disc B # "Intro" (Mark Feldman, Nico Gori, Mirko Guerrini) – 1:37 # "Per Scordarti di Me" – 1:55 # "Visione Numero Due" – 5:20 # "Antichi Insediamenti Urbani" – 7:27 # "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Bollani
Stefano Bollani (born 5 December 1972) is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter. He has worked with such musicians as Gato Barbieri, Chick Corea, Bill Frisell, Sol Gabetta, Richard Galliano, Egberto Gismonti, Lee Konitz, Bobby McFerrin, Pat Metheny, Caetano Veloso, Phil Woods, Hector Zazou and has recorded more than 15 albums with trumpeter Enrico Rava. Bollani has performed with several symphonic orchestras (Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others) and with directors such as Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Harding, Kristjan Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Gianandrea Noseda and Antonio Pappano. He has also played with Italian pop-rock artists and has participated in and hosted TV and radio shows. Currently, he has published 49 albums alone (31 studio). Biography Early life Born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Label Bleu
Label Bleu is a French jazz record label founded by Michel Orier. Orier established the label in the mid-1980s in Amiens and soon after took over directorship of Amiens's cultural center, where he was able to build a recording studio. Label Bleu has concentrated on releasing jazz; in 1991, a sublabel imprint, Indigo, was founded to release world music titles.Gary W. Kennedy, "Label Bleu". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004. Roster * Abraham Inc. * Acoustic Ladyland * Chava Alberstein * Antonio Agri * Claude Barthélemy * Stefano di Battista * Michel Benita * Bojan Z * Stefano Bollani * Safy Boutella * Barbara Casini * Catman * Steve Coleman * François Couturier * D'Gary * DJ Shalom * Marc Ducret * Elite Swingsters * Piers Faccini * Glenn Ferris * Paolo Fresu * Richard Galliano * General Elektriks * Inara George * Regis Gizavo * Bunky Green * Andre Hodeir * Daniel Humair * Jaojoby * François Jeanneau * Wendo Kolosoy * The Klez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Solo (Stefano Bollani Album)
''Piano Solo'' is a solo album by Italian pianist Stefano Bollani recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography accessed November 10, 2011 Reception The review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars stating "Bollani can improvise on Prokofiev, trip along through a Dixieland standard... turn out splendidly intricate paraphrases... He also likes to make improbable associations... For the most part, all of this is filtered through a distinct, poetic, never flashy for its own sake, improvising personality, a lovely touch, and a concise sense of structure.".Ginell, R. S[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fordham (jazz Critic)
John Fordham is a British jazz critic and writer. As well as being the main jazz critic for ''The Guardian'', he publishes a monthly column for the newspaper. He is the author of several books on jazz, and has reported on it for publications including '' Time Out'', ''City Limits'', ''Sounds'', ''Jazz UK'' and ''The Wire''. He is a former editor of ''Time Out'', ''City Limits'' and ''Jazz UK''. He has contributed to documentaries for radio and television, as well as regularly to BBC Radio 3's programme ''Jazz on 3''. Awards Fordham has won the Parliamentary Jazz Awards "Jazz Journalist of the Year" award three times since 2005. , Jazz Services. Selected bibliography *1989: ''The Sound of Jazz'' (Hamlyn) *1991: ''Jazz on CD: the essential guide ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Bates
Django Bates (born Leon Bates, 2 October 1960) is a British jazz musician, composer, multi-instrumentalist, band leader and educator. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. Bates has been described as "one of the most talented musicians Britain has produced... his work covers the entire spectrum of jazz, from early jazz through to bebop and free jazz to jazz-rock fusion." In additional to his jazz work, he is also a noted classical composer (writing both large- and small-scale compositions on commission), theatre composer, and has taught as a professor at various European music schools. As a leader, his bands have included Human Chain, Delightful Precipice, Quiet Nights, Powder Room Collapse Orchestra and Belovèd, and he was also a leading figure in Loose Tubes and Bill Bruford's Earthworks. Early life Bates was born in Beckenham, Kent, England, and attended Sedgehill School. While at this school, he also attended the Centre for Young Musicians in London (1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirko Guerrini
Mirko Guerrini (born 28 April 1973) is an Italian-Australian jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger. Biography Mirko Guerrini was born in Florence, Italy. Has studied piano, saxophone, classical composition and jazz music at the Conservatorio “Cherubini” in Florence, as well as Jazz saxophone with Dave Liebman in New York. Eclectic and multi-instrumentalist, composer and orchestra conductor, he has 20 Cds to his credit as a solo sax player and leader of jazz ensembles, more than 50 CDs as a sideman. He is now leading the band ‘Mirko Guerrini Horizontal Quartet’ (Andrea Keller, Tamara Murphy and Niko Schauble) and he is also the co-leader of the acclaimed band ‘Torrio!’ with Paul Grabowsky and Niko Schauble. Guerrini has released 6 books: 2 with a selection of his compositions by the well known label Carisch Ed, and 3 educational books dedicated to the Jazz Tenor Saxophone: Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and Oliver Nelson. He was part of the “blockbuster” project “ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Fresu
Paolo Fresu ( sc, Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. Career Born in Berchidda, Sardinia, he picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the band Bernardo de Muro in his home town Berchidda. Fresu graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari in 1984, in trumpet studies under Enzo Morandini, and attended the University of Bologna School of music and performing arts in Bologna. He made his debut in 1985, with the release of his first album ''Ostinato.'' He has taught at the Siena Jazz National Seminars, as well as jazz university courses in Terni, and is the director of Nuoro Jazz Seminars in Nuoro, Italy. Fresu composes music for theatre, poem, dance, radio, television, and film. In 2007, he recorded and toured with Carla Bley's quartet, the Lost Chords. In 2011, he released ''Mistico Mediterraneo'', which featured him, Daniele di Bonaventura and five other members playing band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-bop Albums
Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid 1960s in the United States. Pioneers of the genre, such as Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean, crafted syntheses of hard bop with contemporaneous developments in avant-garde jazz, modal jazz and free jazz that resulted in music with a complex and experimental flavor though still rooted in bop tradition, featuring less of the blues and soul leanings predominant in hard bop. The movement had a significant impact on subsequent generations of both acoustic jazz and fusion musicians. Definition Post-bop refers to a body of music that emerged in the late 1950s and 60s that combined principles of bebop, hard bop, modal jazz, avant-garde and free jazz, but also departed from earlier traditions in jazz. Post-bop can refer to a variety of Jazz music that is post-bebop chronologically but in the common understanding post-bop music reflects these influences: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Bollani Albums
Stefano is the Italian form of the masculine given name Στέφανος (Stefanos, Stephen). The name is of Greek origin, Στέφανος, meaning a person who made a significant achievement and has been crowned. In Orthodox Christianity the achievement is in the realm of virtues, αρετές, therefore the name signifies a person who had triumphed over passions and gained the relevant virtues. In Italian, the stress falls usually on the first syllable, (an exception is the Apulian surname ''Stefano'', ); in English it is often mistakenly placed on the second, . People with the given name Stefano * Stefano (wrestler), ring name of Daniel Garcia Soto, professional wrestler * Stefano Borgia (1731–1804), Italian Cardinal, theologian, antiquarian, and historian * Stefano Bertacco (1962–2020), Italian politician * Stefano Cagol (born 1969), Italian artist * Stefano Casiraghi (1960–1990), Italian socialite * Stefano Cavazzoni (1881–1951), Italian politician * Stefano Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
