Srdjan Ivanovic Blazin' Quartet - Sleeping Beauty (March 12, 2021)

Never has a five-member quartet sounded better! ... or bigger ... or more profoundly, organically, articulate.

Joined by special guest, maestro flutist, Magic Malik, Srdjan Ivanovic's renowned Blazin' Quartet -- featuring Andreas Polyzogopoulos (trumpet), Federico Casagrande (guitar), Mihail Ivanov (double bass) and Srdjan Ivanovic (drums; keyboards; composer) -- delivers in truly omnipotent fashion. On the timeless "Sleeping Beauty," nine tracks of unpredictable, potent, refreshingly-divorced-from-the-status-quo-while-exceedingly-brilliant creative mettle are offered, awaiting your listening pleasure.

Seldom does such an ensemble jazz cast weave so seamlessly, yet play with such heartfelt emotion, conviction and, at times, abandon. With an inherent, extraordinary chemistry on display, moments of the most rare, exquisite beauty materialize while ascending to the fore. A delightful, resounding lack of pretense, combined with abounding imagination and sparkling, upper-echelon performances, contributes to an album that's as fresh and ingenious as ensemble jazz gets, from every facet.

1. Intro

2. Sleeping Beauty

3. The Man With The Harmonica

4. Guchi

5. Andreas

6. Rues des Balkans

7. Sleeping Beauty (solo guitar)

8. A l'Aube du Cinquième Jour (Gott Mit Uns)

9. Outro

SRDJAN IVANOVIC (Bosnia & Herzegovina, France) - drums, keyboards, compositions, arrangements)

ANDREAS POLYZOGOPOULOS (Greece) - trumpet

FEDERICO CASAGRANDE (Italy) - guitar

MIHAIL IVANOV (Bulgaria- upright bass

special guest:

MAGIC MALIK (France) - flute

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François Poitou -Funambule ((feat. Bastien Ribot, Saúl Crespo Saldaña, Aude Marie Duperret, Maxime Berton & Federico Casagrande) 2017

"Gracieux et d'une élégance étourdissante, le premier album d'un contrebassiste et compositeur déjà maître de ses moyens." 

Les INROCKS

1. Le jour se lève 4:56

2. Funambule 7:19

3. Vertigo 5:10

4. Hors du temps 7:54

5. La couleur et la forme 4:26

6. Mrs J #1 2:41

7. Mrs J #2 6:01

8. Anonymous 3:26

9. Ne le dis à personne 5:40

Bastien Ribot, Saul Crespo Saldaña : violins

Aude-Marie Duperret : viola

Max Berton : soprano sax, bass clarinet

Federico Casagrande : guitar

Francois Poitou : double bass, compositions

Enrico Pieranunzi, Federico Casagrande - Double Circle (2015)

A piano and an acoustic guitar. A sweet melody, “Anne Blomster Sang”, which can positively affect your daily mood, if listened to when you wake up. This brightly beautiful gem is the opening track of “Double Circle”, a CD that brought Enrico Pieranunzi and Federico Casagrande together in a recording studio for the first time: two musicians from different generations and with different backgrounds, but united by their love for jazz. This love has led Pieranunzi to become a reputable piano master over time and Casagrande to live far from home, since he left the province of Treviso (Italy) and moved all the way to Paris to learn the ropes in the jazz clubs of the French capital and returned more mature and ready to tell his musical tale. Two different paths crossed in a recording studio in Udine and gave rise to a charming record including airy, quiet tunes that alternate with small, more quick-paced movements, like the two brief improvisations, “Sector 1” and “Sector 2”. Speaking of paths, “Dangerous Paths” is one in which Pieranunzi’s and Casagrande’s instruments become vehemently entwined, suggesting their being chased on a bumpy road. But it doesn’t take much to restore the calm: “Within The House of Night” is a gentle oasis of uncommon refinement. The very moving “Charlie Haden” is Pieranunzi’s tribute to a musician with whom he has shared so much for so long, in the ‘80s together with Chet Baker and in the last decade with two projects, “Special Encounter” and “FelliniJazz”, recently re-released in double LP format on CAM JAZZ for the tenth anniversary of their initial release.  Pieranunzi and Casagrande wrote all of the tracks here, except for “Beija Flor” by Noel Silva, Augusto Tomás Jr and Nelson Cavaquinho.

Recorded and mixed in Cavalicco on 12, 13, 14 November 2014 at Artesuono Recording Studio.

Enrico Pieranunzi (Piano)

Federico Casagrande (Acoustic Guitar)

01. Anne Blomster Sang

02. Periph

03. Sector 1

04. Clear

05. Dangerous Paths

06. Within the House of Night

07. No Nonsense

08. Beija Flor

09. Disclosure

10. Sector 2

11. Charlie Haden

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Domi

Fulvio Sigurtà - The Oldest Living Thing (2015)

Back from the intriguing experience of “SPL” (in trio with Andrea Lombardini on bass guitar and Alessandro Paternesi on drums), a modern record with surprising turns, Fulvio Sigurtà is back with a more classically jazz album. Supported by Steve Swallow’s stunning bass guitar and Federico Casagrande’s refined acoustic guitar, Sigurtà’s trumpet and flugelhorn weave soft, enchanting melodies. You may let yourself be lulled by the first song and title track on this album, written by the band leader, and Casagrande’s “Sorrows And Joys Of A Lamb”. The two regularly alternate as writers of the nine original tracks on “The Oldest Living Thing”, composed by one or the other in more or less equal measure. The only virtual guest here is Ennio Morricone, who is involved thanks to an appealing reinterpretation of the theme from “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”.  Sigurtà and his fellow travelers have looked for (and actually found) dazzling melodies throughout this fifty-minute long recording.

From a musical idea unfold outstanding plots by the three instruments, with horns and guitar that often alternate with one another in leading the dance and Swallow’s bass that supports it all with valuable skill and excellent taste, watching the scene from behind the lines and emerging here and there with sophisticated virtuosities and a voice always utterly recognizable. Although the temperament and uniqueness of the sound of the powerful bass player from New Jersey is no surprise, one can rightly be a little amazed by the continuous growth of Sigurtà and Casagrande: the former has mastered a variety of timbres that would make many players envious (the intro to “Sunday Snow Flakes” is a case in point), while the latter invents sounds and harmonies that perfectly combine with the band leader’s ideas (“Travel Back”). This steadily evolving leader showed four completely different sides of his musical personality in his past four albums on CAM JAZZ: one of the talents among the new generation of Italian jazzmen who is worthy of being listened to most attentively.

Fulvio Sigurtà (Trumpet, Flugelhorn)

Steve Swallow (Electric Bass)

Federico Casagrande (Acoustic Guitar)

The Oldest Living Thing

Sorrows And Joys Of A Lamb

Helichrysum

Marmotte

Sunday Snow Flakes

Travel Back

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

The Olive Tree Of Noah

Loft

The Oldest Living Thing (Duo)

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JAVI