Brunod / Mella / Boggio Ferraris - Italian Jazz Book Vol. 1 (UR RECORDS 2018)

This project wants to celebrate the music of some of the most important and valuable Italian jazz players, and especially their compositions. So, the repertory stretches from Franco D’Andrea to Enrico Rava, from Daniele di Bonaventura to our beloved Andrea Allione, arriving to touch the music of the group’s components themselves, all three of them active composers.

The aim, therefore, is to help the great public get a closer look at the fine compositional flair of some of the leading musician of the Italian jazz scene.

All of this is realized through the sounds of an unusual band, with no drums but with two harmonic instruments, in eternal balance between love and hate: Boggio Ferraris’ vibraphone and Brunod’s guitar. The solid rhythmic of Aldo Mella’s double bass completes this trio that wants to gain an unique “voice”, hopefully of some relevance for Italian jazz, even by playing pieces of diverse and far origins.

Maurizio Brunod, Guitar

Aldo Mella, Double bass

Gabriele Boggio Ferraris, Vibraphone

1  Danças (A. Allione)

2  Hypnotic Sad Loop (M. Brunod)

3  Le Solite Cose (E. Rava)

4  Fafa (A. Mella)

5  I Gazzillori (D. Di Bonaventura)

6  Cherries (F. D’Andrea)

7  Indaco (A. Mandarini)

8  Da Silva (E. Rava)

Luca Dell'Anna Quartet - Human See, Human Do (UR RECORDS 2018)

“How fickle is the mind! Even if it is introverted, it does not remain steady but gets agitated in a moment like the surface of the ocean. Tied to the senses (like the sight) it bounces again and again like a ball. Having been nourished by the senses, the mind grasps the very objects it has given up; and like a demented person, it runs after the very things from which it has been restrained. It jumps from one object to the other like a monkey. “

(Yoga Vasistha)

Luca Dell’Anna – piano, compositions

Massimiliano Milesi – tenor sax

Danilo Gallo – double bass

Alessandro Rossi – drums

1  Sector n.4

2  From The Other Room

3  Jade (part 1)

4  Jade (part 2)

5  Sankhara

6  Human See, Human Do

7  Inside Dennis Cleg

8  Monkey and The Brain

All tunes are composed by Luca Dell’Anna

A.B. Normal - Out of a Suite (UR RECORDS 2018)

"…the music profession is one of those that has taken longer to be recognized. Charged with too many ancient magical or religious conceptions and with all the particularities of the artistic mentality, it has been too long admired and despised together. His ambivalence sometimes touches the region of holiness, because, like the tree of the world, the musician is placed between two worlds, between heaven and earth, between life and death. That's why you avoid too personal relationships with him. It is respected and to the same extent it is feared or despised. His faculties are valued, which are sometimes needed; but the esteem is still too mixed with the fear that a music endowed with all the rights of a common being can abuse his power.

Sometimes the music seems even to be an outcast."

(M. Schneider - Sociologie et mythologie musicales)

Andrea Baronchelli, Trombone, effects, compositions

Michele Bonifati, Electric guitar, effects

Danilo Gallo, Electric bass, effects, objects

Alessandro Rossi, Drums, electric drums

Suite:

1  Intro

2  Roots

3  Cortex

4  The Crown

5. Outro

Out:

6  Starting with a Cherry

7  Syriarin

All composition by Andrea Baronchelli, except n.6 by Michele Bonifati