The musician plays with the scent of music to make the mix of notes, of structures, accents, phrases, dynamics into a superfine dish and original. A collection which presents itself as a careful choice, with Middle Eastern fragrances, remote echoes of folk, brave and unexpected visits into musical passageways and along paths seldom, or never explored.
The musical suggestions which arise through listening to these original compositions leave an unusual listening flavour which leads to the desire to repeat the experience. The balanced “blend” of distant stylistic origins, the mixture of acoustic and electric instruments under the perceptive direction of Guido give us distinct flavours, but which derive from the stylistic direction of the innate talent of Guido for musical composition and creativeness.
Guido Premuda (guitar) Enrico Guerzoni (cello), Luigi Albertazzi (drums), Gilberto Grillini (double bass)
Tomaso Lama
Characteristic Pitches feat Robin Eubanks - Multitude
Three years after the release of “Night Dancers”, Boston based Italian drummer Paolo Lattanzi presents an entirely renewed group with an absolutely original repertoire. These captivating and flowing arrangements highlight the improvisational skills of the sextet, enriched by the presence of acclaimed trombonist Robin Eubanks (known, among things, for his works with Dave Holland).
Daniel Rosenthal (Tromba), Rick Stone (Alto Sax), Robin Eubanks (Trombone), Lefteris Kordis (Piano), Greg Loughman (Contrabbasso), Paolo Lattanzi (Batteria).
Gianni Virone - Frammenti
Frammenti ('fragments') is a peculiar work which deserves attention, no doubt. This music spreads an inner power and a modernity that being inside the border of Jazz language it allows to express fresh, original and surprising ideas.
Peculiarity in the peculiarity, the graphics are a work of the painter Mery Rigo, here inspired by the musical life of the Trio.
The idea to create this band started in 2003 right after a jam session where I had the luck to meet Mattia Barbieri. In that period I was already playing with another group with Davide Liberti and I decided to “put them together” and see what may have happened… This trio has been going on for a number of years thanks to the deep friendship among us and to the artistic affinity we discovered already at the first rehearsal. We all have more or less the same age and we live in the neighborhood of Turin and this surely helped our collaboration and the following work with other musicians.
During these years I noticed that our music was gradually changing, rehearsal after rehearsal, gig after gig, following the experience and the evolution of the single members and consolidating a real ‘band sound’. The compositions were having every time a new shape because having a lot of improvisation and each musician has the freedom to bring the music towards many directions. In this way, each composition is simply a kind of “fragment”, a musical idea to develop, the subject of a conversation made with our instruments. From here, the idea to represent all this through the painting with the collaboration of Mery Rigo, outstanding Estractist painter, active on the domestic scene since many years.
With Mery we had the idea to represent the musical process and improvisation of a jazz band through the fragmentation and the re-organization of images showing the band members during the performance. In this way we wanted to point out how the musicians participate in different ways to the development of the solos.
Gianni Virone
Gianni Virone – saxes, alto flute // Davide Liberti – double bass // Mattia Barbieri – drums
Chiara Liuzzi - Elica
"It seemed that the living soul of the colors released a musical calling, when the relentless will of the brush took away part of their lives. Sometimes I would hear the quiet chattering of the colors as they would mix; it was a mysterious experience;
surprised in the mysterious kitchen of an alchemist." V.Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art
ELICA is a product that is based on the perceptive dimension of sound through the holistic approach. The various sensorial sources that combine firstly to the sound perception and then to its production have been considered as the blades of a propeller (ELICA).
The association between the two terms of comparison weresuggested by the shape of the propeller itself, in which its blades are perfectly distinguishable when it is not working, while it confuses them into one another creating a circulation when in motion.
Looking at a color, listening to a sound, tasting food, smelling a fragrance, brushing against an object and trying to go past its outer shell and body, we face an emotional universe that is difficultly translated into words.
This cd is the result of a synesthesical and sensorial research on material, broadly speaking. Each musician individually transformed the perception of this, communicating it in interplay through impromptu.
Chiara Liuzzi
Chiara Liuzzi : Voice, sound objects Francesco Massaro : Baritone and Alto Sax, Clarinet, Sound objects Adolfo La Volpe : Guitar, Electronics, Banjo, Oud
Valerio Daniele : Sound Design
Stefano Pastor - Freedom
This project is witness of the artistic growth of Stafno Pastor, also confirmed by the many reviews he got (for instance, his duo CD with Borah Bergman by “All About Jazz New York”) and above all from the excellent ranking on Top Jazz 2009, with votes from the italian critics.
This music has a clear reference to Free Jazz form the sixties, here performed with freshness in a modern key.
Freedom: in a avant-garde setting redolent of the Seventies – but with a definite Chicagoan cast – inasmuch as it is an evolution from the American trends of the Sixties. A glance to tradition, by way of mirroring and further reflecting some methods and events of the African-American avant-garde, with its peculiar sticking to the groove of an historical continuum. (...)
The single or simultanous handling of the two instruments on Haslam’s part gets inside (or ovelaps) the nervous strain, unrelenting mostly on the ryhthmical level, built by the two other soloists, Stafano Pastor on violin and Claudio Lugo on curved soprano sax. It is within the collective improvisation of the three soloists (add the bass of Giorgio Dini working as a full-ranked and autonomous rhythm section) that takes place the ricovery of ‘dirtyness’, that is to say, of the less-than-perfect simultaneity of the performing artists, of the unclean attack of single notes; whence that impredictable richness in tone and rhythm, so peculiar to the free jazz tradition, wielded here as a radical instrument of expression.
(Erika Dagnino, from the liner notes)
Stefano Pastor (violin), George Haslam (baritone sax, tarugato), Gianni Lugo (alto sax), Giorgio Dini (double bass)
Parker - Lenoci - Curci - Magliocchi "Serving an Evolving Humanity"
“Serving an Evolving Humanity” is a suite in 3 parts, totally improvised in a concert recorded in Noci, Italy, in a summer night.
The four musicians, all well known for tghe fruitful experiences in the field of improvisation (even extreme!), meet for the first time and generate a great performance, where instruments sounds merge with the fresh air of the public square where the stage was built.
Peculiarity of the CD, the booklet contains poems by William Parker and Vittorino Curci, kindly provided by their editors, and chosen for the subject of the concert: for an evolving humanity!
The Ars3 trio (Grossi, Zanchi and Castiglioni) returned with their own collective intelligence, their own collective sensitivity, their own patterns, harmonies, melodies, their unrestrained curiosity, their osmosis, and that special aftertaste of melancholy savoured with those jazz musicians who do not give in to the tyranny of swing, but prefer its sound, colours, atmospheres and mood. Here they are, for the delight of music, back again with a work that involves the "rasping" voice of Gian Maria Testa and, in conclusion, the exciting - and in a way - excited voice of Sheila Jordan. A celebration of peace that is not ideological, not factious. It is instead an ontological, intellectual peace, one of feelings, peace in music, meant not as a battle hymn but as a dream-like spur. Opening with “Masters of War” by Bob Dylan and closing with “Peace” by Horace Silver. This is what makes this CD a new and different transition from pop music to great jazz something that is also difficult to define, but that is certainly an example of sophistication, sensitivity and creativity. 
Antonio Zambrini is esteemed one of the best italian composer. The last three recordings by Antonio Zambrini , “Quartetto”, “Due colori” and “Musica” ( all by Abeat records ) have been of great success either in critics and sales all around many countries. It’s the first time that Antonio Zambrini is recording some songs by other people’s.
A TIME REMEMBERED” is a project of extraordinary artistic force that revisits some between more celebrates compositions of Bill Evans in occasion of the thirty-year period from his disappearance, mixing two languages, that of jazz and classic music without to deprive them of their natural expressive characteristics. The formation combine traditional jazz piano trio with the addition of a guitar and a classic strings quartet. The arrangements are particularly fresh and effective. The fresh sound , the propulsive charge of the rhythmic section, contribute to giving the feeling of a work that pulls down every clichè and every element of adhesion to any style in order to give to the listeners only limpid sonorous forms. High audiophile profile.
Third work of Roberto Demo published by Abeat. His previous cds, “La porta” ( 2001) and “ Sono Un bluff ” ( 2005), have been very successful. Roberto Demo had been widely recognized by public and critics, also pointed to the top of the emerging talent at the top jazz referendum.
Since many years Abeat is publishing some appealing cds with world famous musicians. A stellar cast honors their cultures and musical traditions reinterpreting some of the most famous and significant immortal melodies of the italian and french repertoire : “Estate” by Bruno Martino, “La canzone di Marinella” by De Andrè e “Fiore di maggio” by Fabio Concato, “Tu t’laisses aller”and “Jolies momes de mon quartier” by Charles Aznavour, “What are you doing the rest of your life?” and “ You must believe in spring” by Michel Legrand, “Les feuilles mortes” by Kosma. Four musicians of immense value confirm that jazz has no boundaries. “Canzoni” is a disc of rare elegance and pleasure.
Rosario Di Rosa, one of the most creative italian reality of the last years. This new project with the double bass player Paolo Dassi and the drum player Riccardo Tosi takes its inspiration from Cabaret VOLTAIRE , the famous place, where in 1916, some intellectuals gave birth to the artistic movement called "Dada ". This becomes a pretext for un ironic reading of the today's reality that very often celebrates the superfluous and the ephemeral one. To serve as scenography to the all, the metropolitan and frantic rhythms of a great city that they become very often sonorous column of various reported histories in music. Every composition shows of it different angolature and perspectives through the use of references, cultures and worlds very distant among them as the room music, the drum'n'bass, the rock and the contemporary music. Rosario Di Rosa creates a music full of references to the past but, at the same time, he proposes a new suggestion, a strong and energetic motion of rebellion. A real work of art not only for the musical contents, Cabaret Voltaire dips the listener in a dense atmosphere of colors and tastes that postpone to the wealth of the earth of Sicily. A contemporary jazz that reassumes some typical Italian flavours and peculiarity , thanks to the talent of the rhythmic partners and the ingeniousness of the compositions.
Vittorio Mezza, is considered one of the most interesting and original pianist on the new italian jazz scene. With the help of two “supermusicians” as Massimo Moriconi and Ettore Fioravanti gave birth to a musical project of extraordinary artistic depht, great novelty both stylistic and of ideas. It’s remarkable a strong component of swing and interplay, a quality is becoming rarest.
Max De Aloe, an ingenious and atypic musician within the italian jazz survey, regarded among the most meaningful harmonica-players in the European jazz scenery,carries out his new musical project, entitled "APNEA", involving one of the most accredited american pianists, Bill Carrothers.Two strong and leading personalities joined to create the coming shortly CD "Apnea", published by Abeat Records ( ABJZ 0072) ,in which all songs were entirely composed for this special purpose and are based on the novels of Haruki Murakami, a great japanese writer. A tribute hanging between literature and a contemporary jazz ,enriched with crosswise kinds of music ,that will surely enchant either the jazz novices and people keen on japanise literature.
Etta Cameron is best known as a gospel vocalist with a contagiousenthusiasm, which can distill the ardor in any choir and lead them to rock even the smallest country church. When on the panel of one of TV’s many talent contests, lovable Etta