Saturday, March 4, 2017

Felice Clemente Quartet - Mino Legacy (2017)


IL NUOVO ALBUM DI FELICE CLEMENTE DEDICATO A MINO REITANO
cofanetto con cd, dvd e libro

Esce venerdì 3 marzo, nei negozi italiani e nel mondo e sulle più importanti piattaforme digitali, il nuovo album di Felice Clemente Quartet MINO LEGACY (Crocevia di suoni records/IRD/The Orchard). Un’intensa opera musicale, dove le radici del jazz s’intrecciano con naturalezza alla canzone italiana.

MINO LEGACY non è solo cd, è progetto prestigioso e articolato, dove l’album è all’interno di un cofanetto contenente anche un libro e un dvd.

“MINO LEGACY è una dedica maturata e cresciuta in me col passare degli anni e col tempo è diventata sempre più necessaria. Ora l’ho voluta realizzare attraverso il linguaggio musicale che più mi appartiene, ovvero il jazz, ripercorrendo la poetica e la carriera artistica di mio zio Mino nelle composizioni più significative che lo hanno reso famoso in tutto il mondo. L’obiettivo è quello di evidenziare ed esaltare la sua creatività compositiva, dandole nuova linfa vitale e l’opportunità di testimoniare la sua eccellenza artistica alle nuove generazioni” Felice Clemente



L’ALBUM

Jazzista, sassofonista, clarinettista e compositore, Felice Clemente con “MINO LEGACY”, suo dodicesimo lavoro discografico, rende omaggio a chi, come il nonno Rocco e suo zio Mino Reitano, lo ha portato a fare della musica la propria passione e professione. L’album attinge infatti a brani celebri del grande repertorio di Reitano, per rileggerli e reinterpretarli come veri e propri standard nati dalla musica popolare. L’UOMO E LA VALIGIA, UNA RAGIONE DI PIU’, LA MIA CANZONE, SOLO inedito di Fabio Nuzzolese a introduzione di MA TI SEI CHIESTO MAI, ERA IL TEMPO DELLE MORE, EDUARDO, MEGLIO UNA SERA… (PIANGERE DA SOLO), SE TU SAPESSI AMORE MIO, VORREI, sono i titoli della particolare tracklist dell’album, che chiude con l’inedito di Felice Clemente e Fabio Nuzzolese MINO LEGACY, che dà nome a tutto il progetto.

Ad accompagnarlo in questa nuova avventura, alcuni musicisti d’eccezione come Fabio Nuzzolese al pianoforte, Giulio Corini al contrabbasso e Massimo Manzi alla batteria.

IL LIBRO

Nel libro, PROFILO CRITICO DI … MINO REITANO lo storico della canzone Andrea Pedrinelli rilegge Reitano partendo dalle sue parole, raccolte negli anni, analizzando i suoi album ufficiali, la vita, la carriera e la rilettura jazz di Felice Clemente.



IL DVD

DIETRO LE QUINTE DI… MINO LEGACY è un video che ripercorre la genesi dell’album, attraverso un’ampia intervista a Felice Clemente, contenente immagini rubate in studio d’incisione e il videoclip del brano “Era il tempo delle more”. Inoltre, per testimoniare l’arte di Reitano, una sintesi inedita del suo tour estivo 1985 fra classici e proposte per nulla scontate.


Liner notes by Felice Clemente

There’s always a starting point in a musician’s career: there’s a beginning and there are some people shining light on your personality and on your destiny too.

Mino Legacy is a dedication to the ones who passed down to me the passion for music and let me become a professional musician and make the music be my life, that is my grandfather Rocco and my maternal uncle Mino Reitano.

This dedication has matured and grown up with me since many years and it has become more and more needed as time goes by. I wanted to make it real thanks to my favorite musical language, the jazz music, remembering his poetry and artistic career in his most significant and important compositions which made him famous all over the world.

The goal to achieve is highlightning and bringing out his compositive creativity, giving to it a new life and the chance of being witness to new generations of his artistic excellence.

Fabio Nuzzolese, composer and pianist, did a great job in the arrangement of the compositions, as he was respectful of the originality and clarity in Mino’s lyrics, giving them a new jazzy and elaborated guise in writing and performing. The final result is a very deeply enjoyable, touching, fascinating music able to put together light music and jazz one naturally, extensively, no artificial filters or prejudices.

All this project has been possible thanks to Marco Bassi, a great friend of mine and a cultured, passionate, musical and art critic who has supported me from the very first day and thanks to all my excellent travel companions and polished musicians Fabio, Massimo and Giulio who shared this experience passionally and with enthusiasm. Thanks to Andrea Pedrinelli too, great expert and musical critic, author of Mino’s life and artist career book.

I strongly hope that Mino’s compositions and poetry will keep on ringing and living as they have been doing for many years.


01. L'uomo e la valigia 3:55
02. Una ragione di più 8:09
03. La mia canzone 5:01
04. Solo 1:23
05. Ma ti sei chiesto mai 4:47
06. Era il tempo delle more 5:19
07. Eduardo 6:32
08. Meglio una sera...(piangere da solo) 5:07
09. Se tu sapessi amore mio 5:54
10. Vorrei 4:07
11. Mino Legacy 6:21

Felice Clemente tenor and soprano sax
Fabio Nuzzolese piano
Giulio Corini double bass
Massimo Manzi drums


Kneebody - Anti-Hero (MOTEMA MUSIC 2017)


With a constantly evolving sound that incorporates electronic music, rock and hip-hop, Kneebody has established themselves as one of the most forward-looking groups in jazz. Following their groundbreaking 2015 collaboration with IDM innovator Daedelus, the GRAMMY-nominated quintet bring raw energy, churning backbeats, and unrestrained exploration to their latest offering, Anti-Hero.

01 For the Fallen
02 Uprising
03 Drum Battle
04 Antihero
05 The Balloonist
06 For Mikie Lee
07 Profar
08 Carry On
09 Yes You
10 Austin Peralta

Ben Wendel (sax)
Shane Endsley (trumpet)
Kaveh Rastegar (bass)
Adam Benjamin (keyboards)
Nate Wood (drums)


Igor Gehenot - Delta (IGLOO RECORDS 2017)


A revelation with his trio, winner of numerous awards and hailed by the Brit-ish magazine Jazzwise, the young Belgian pianist Igor Gehenot has brought together the cream of Europe’s young jazz scene in a new quartet project called “Delta”.

After two albums as a trio for the Igloo label ("Road Story" in 2012 and "Motion" in 2014), the charismatic young Belgian pianist called on a solid rhythm section, the young Swedish double-bassist Viktor Nyberg and the Luxembourg drummer Jérôme Klein. To complete this high-flying quartet, he brought in the bugle-player Alex Tassel, a leading figure on the French scene both in terms of electric and acoustic jazz. Winner of an Adami Jazz Talents award in 2011, Tassel has shared stages with major names such as Daniel Romeo, Rick Margitza, Jacques Schwartz-Bart, DJ Cam and Baptiste Trotignon.


Recorded in October 2016 for the Igloo label, the “Delta” project offers music in Gehenot’s lyrical style, alternating between strong melodies, solid grooves and elegant swing. Using unabashedly lyrical and romantic sounds, Gehenot and his partners play music that is rich in poetry and colour, giving each note room to open up and arrive at the essence.

"In good company, Igor Gehenot brilliantly negotiates the milestone of the third album and continues his personal evolution by playing on the forms. His imagination, his melodic sense and deep sensitivity, however, are still intact. This new production has no trouble reaching the same level of success as the first two. (...) His music still bears the mark of a deep nostalgia, even evoking Nordic tones of which the Munich label ECM is the incarnation. The overall sound is moving, especially on the magnificent “Sleepless Night”, perfect for nocturnal meditation. “Moni”, “Abysses” and “Johanna” extend this dreamlike atmosphere where the rhythm seems to play behind a veil while the pianist sketches some saturnine chords and the bugle-player flirts with both silence and weightlessness." (P. Dulieu)


Intro
December 15
Moni 
Sleepless Night 
Step 2
Abysses 
Starter Pack 
Johanna
Drop by 

Igor Gehenot Piano
Jérôme Klein Drums
Viktor Nyberg Double Bass

Guest
Alex Tassel Flugelhorn


Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People - Weather or Not (WHALING CITY SOUND 2017) 2 CD


It is unique and kind of madcap, the sign of a fertile artist plowing through all the ideas swirling around his brain. Gerry Gibbs is the artist, and "Weather or Not" is his new, two-disc set. Disc 1 is devoted to covering a variety of tasty material from the legendary 'Weather Report,' while Disc 2 features Gibbs cranking up the creative juices on a set of 16 originals, traversing from flamenco to pulse-quickening funk, calypso, gospel Latin jazz, R&B and plenty of all-out swing. It is Gibbs' most audacious and fully-realized project to date, an early crowning achievement from a restless spirit and a triumphant, indefatigable artist.

Disk 1

01. Teen Town
02. Palladium
03. Mr. Gone
04. Young and Fine
05. A Remark You Made
06. Black Market
07. Sightseeing
08. Punk Jazz
09. Scarlett Woman / Boogie Woogie Waltz
10. Elegant People
11. Birdland
12. Directions

Disk 2

01. Maestro Ron
02. Just Glad to be Anywhere
03. Kojak
04. Road Trip
05. Joaquin and Pinky
06. We Are So Free
07. The 70's Song / aka Patrice Rushen
08. Only In Dreams
09. Paul & Sid's Blues
10. I'm Simply Waiting
11. When I close My Eyes
12. St. Marteen
13. The Caribbean Song
14. Her Last Words (R.I.P.)
15. It's A Good Day
16. When I close My Eyes (and go to a place I have never been before) (part 2)

Gerry Gibbs - drums, percussion, electronics, voices
Alex Collins - piano, rhodes, organ, vocals
Hans Glawischnig - acoustic, electric bass


Christina Dahl Quartet - Childish (STORYVILLE RECORDS 2017)


Christina Dahl is one of Denmark’s most respected saxophonists and she has a personal and lyrical sound. As a musician her expressions range from explosive virility to dimmed melancholy.
On her new album she brings the unique quartet consisting of one of our very best guitarists, Niclas Knudsen, the internationally acclaimed bassist Jesper Lundgaard and a great talent on the drums, Esben Laub von Liljenskjold. Together, the four musicians have developed a playful and free language, where everyone has a leading role as soloists.


Bouncing Balance
Choice of voice
Crossing Bridges
Childish
Circles
Waves of wind
Endless Enternity

Niclas Knudsen - guitar
Jesper Lundgaard - bass, fretless fender bass/double bass
Esben Laub von Lillienskjold - drums


Friday, March 3, 2017

MONTRÉAL EN LUMIÈRE: A tribute to Piaf, Les Vikings, DJ Stefie Shock and Coleman Hell for the Nuit blanche!




Antonio Faraò: “News From…” is out now! (WARNER MUSIC GROUP)










“NEWS FROM…” featuring SNOOP DOGG & WALTER RICCI is the first single from EKLEKTIK  the new album of Antonio Faraò to be released in March 2017 with WARNER MUSIC.

The album EKLEKTIK contains 12 compositions and arrangements of Antonio Farao’ and features an incredible cast of musicians : Marcus Miller, Snoop Dogg, Krayzie Bone (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony), Manu Katché, Mike Clark (Herbie Hancock/Headhunters) Didier Lockwood, Bireli Lagrene…
Antonio Faraò is a pianist of uncommon skill. With a career that extends over 30 years, he has realized his potential and established himself as one of the most respected jazz pianists in the International scene.
Antonio Faraò has collaborated and/or performed live with a number of great jazz musicians: Joe Lovano, Jack Dejohnette, Bireli Lagrène, Al Jarreau, Wayne Shorter, Marcus Miller Franco Ambrosetti, Daniel Humair, Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Steve Grossman, Christian Mc Bride, Chico Freeman, Miroslav Vitous, John Abercrombie, Richard Galliano, Toots Thielemans, Dave Liebman, Didier Lockwood, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, George Garzone, Cecil Mc Bee…and with the famous Italian pop singer Mina.

"In our lifetime, there are only a small few instances where ones talent is so rife it copiously spreads across the entire creative landscape of that existing talent, touching any and everything possible in its phenomenal existence.
The name Antonio Farao emerges here as one who has vigorously, ambitiously, and significantly pursued jazz as one of its progenitors, moving it ahead in blinding incremental revelations. Being rife with talent and unusual ability, he has now exposed another genre of music as if by another unusually talented person. Make no mistake, genius can accomplish that phenomenon.
From jazz he has now touched the music of Hip-Hop/Funk. This is something that’s highly unusual for one to accomplish. An artist is usually planted in one style or the other, but not both. However, Antonio is able to embrace the two as if he has duel personalities. But it’s not personalities to be considered here, it’s superlative talent and superior ability. For a certainty, that makes him a rare phenomenon.
This new CD then, Eklektik , graphically reveals his ability to aggressively invade the realm of that which would never be expected by a superior, and well-established jazz artist. On this CD you will listen with rapt attention and disbelief as your ears absorb the sounds one after another. The music is unusual, of course, but the man is even more unusual. Welcome into the inner world of Antonio Farao."  BENNY GOLSON


Newvelle Records' First Album of Season Two is Shipping Now!

Newvelle Records is excited to be sharing the first record of their Second Season with members now.  Irmãos de Fé featuring John Patitucci, Yotam Silberstein and Rogério Boccato is a truly beautiful and unique recording of all Brazillian music

Rogério Boccato, John Patitucci and Yotam Silberstein © Jordan Kleinman
What if it's about the song?

There is a paradox in the regional specificity of these songs and their overwhelming universal truth. Music that speaks not just across languages but through a deeper medium. These songs are not conveyances for improvisational flights of fancy. John, Yotam and Rogerio bring their considerable gifts and unique voices to express the song, and the song alone, and perhaps that is the higher calling. 

– excerpted from the liner notes by Elan Mehler



The second release of Season Two features Lionel Loueke and Kevin Hays showing some super-human telepathy on an album of all original material.  Check out a sample on the In The Studio page.

Our third release of Season Two is a band led by Jon Cowherd, featuring Brian Blade, Tony Scherr and Steve Cardenas.  Check out a sample on the In The Studio page.


John Patitucci Trio Featuring Yotam Silberstein and Rogerio Boccato

Kevin Hays and Lionel Loueke Duo

Jon Cowherd Quartet featuring Steve Cardenas, Tony Scherr and Brian Blade

Chris Tordini Trio featuring Becca Stevens and Greg Ruggerio

Aruán Ortiz revisiting the music of the great Cuban classical composers

Rufus Reid Trio with Steve Allee and Duduka Da Fonseca and featuring the Sirius Quartet

 All of Newvelle's covert and interior photographs for Season Two come from the French Collective Tendance Floue.
Newvelle's Recording Engineer on all six records is the multi-Grammy winning Marc Urselli.
Mastering engineer is by Alex Deturk.  
Jim Hoppin and Sarah Enid Hagey shot video at these sessions.  
All video editing is by the award-winning Ben Chace.  
Jordan Kleinman shoots all studio photos.
The web team is run by Aymeric Auberger.
Social Media management by Jessye Mehler.
Newvelle is run by:  Elan Mehler and Jean-Christophe Morisseau.