Massimo Faraò Trio - Luiza

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:26
Size: 123,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:08)  1. So In Love
(6:43)  2. Beautiful Love
(6:04)  3. Dear Old Stockholm
(5:06)  4. Luiza
(5:41)  5. Fly Me To The Moon
(7:06)  6. Someone To Watch Over me
(6:59)  7. E La Chiamano Estate
(4:47)  8. Blue Bossa
(4:47)  9. Stardust

Ferdinando Faraò belongs to one of the few Italian jazz dynasties. The son of an amateur drummer, he is the brother of piano player Antonio Faraò and the cousin of piano player Massimo Faraò. Inspired by his father's wide collection of jazz records and captivated by a concert of Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald that he had seen in Milan at the age of 10, he started to study the drums with the support of his family. By the age of 20 he had become the in-house drummer at Capolinea, Milan's most important jazz venue. In the '80s he played in the Claudio Fasoli Quartet and accompanied many North American musicians that toured Italy, such as Lee Konitz, Mal Waldron, Sal Nistico and Bob Mover. In the '90s he joined the quintet of Italian singer Tiziana Ghiglioni and has been increasingly involved in special audio-visual projects. His recording career as a solo artist started relatively late, in 1997, with the album Listening Self, featuring Pietro Tonolo on saxophone, Piero Leveratto on double-bass and Franco D'Andrea on piano. Faraò is a subtle drummer that leads from the back rather than putting himself under the spotlight. Also at ease on percussion and xylophone, he can provide a versatile and wide aural palette. 

A witty composer, he privileges midtempo compositions in which he often experiments with odd time signatures, sudden rhythmic shifts and sampling. Though constantly active as a sideman and teacher, Faraò didn't record as a leader again until 2004's large ensemble offering Eschersuite, the first album in a trilogy that was followed by Darwinsuite (2009) and Pollocksuite (2010). In 2015 he led the Artchipel Orchestra on the date Play Soft Machine and enlisted them again along with drummer Chris Cutler for To Lindsay: Omaggio A Lindsay Cooper. ~ Luigi Santosuosso https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ferdinando-fara%C3%B2-mn0001342062/biography

Personnel: Massimo Farao; piano; Aldo Zunino bass; Marco Tolotti drums

Luiza

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Dave Turner, Nelson Symonds - The Pulse Brothers

Styles: Saxophone And Guitar Jazz
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:05
Size: 151,9 MB
Art: Front

(11:19)  1. Star Eyes
(13:20)  2. Like Someone in Love
(12:02)  3. Black Orpheus
( 9:26)  4. It Could Happen to You
( 7:36)  5. You Stepped out of a Dream
(12:19)  6. Au Privave

A native of Montreal, alto/baritone saxophonist & composer Dave Turner has been a mainstay of the city’s jazz scene since the mid 1970’s. During this time, he has performed extensively with his own groups around the Montreal area, and has been a featured performer at every major Jazz festival in Canada. He has also performed at many prominent clubs on the international jazz scene Top of the Senator (Toronto), Sweet Basil (New York), Le lion s’envole (Liege) and l’Archiduc  (Brussels), Dizzy’s (Rotterdam), Café Alto (Amsterdam).

Dave Turner has been a featured soloist and lead alto saxophonist with the Vic Vogel Big Band since 1979. He has also collaborated with the Orchestre Metropolitain (conducted by Agnes Grossman), the National Arts Center Orchestra (conducted by David Amram) and, in 1999, he performed and recorded with the European Broadcast Union Orchestra in a series of concerts celebrating the centennial of the birth of Duke Ellington. In 1996, Dave Turner was honoured as “Alto Saxophonist of the Year” by Jazz Report magazine. A prolific recording artist, he has released a total of ten albums under his own name, each one receiving wide critical acclaim across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. “Café Alto”, recorded in 1987, was nominated for a Juno. In 1995, he was the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Award from Concordia University for his work in the Jazz Studies program, of which he has been an involved faculty member since 1982. https://www.daveturner.ca/wp/?p=174

Personnel: Dave Turner – alto sax; Nelson Symonds – guitar; Dave Gelfand – bass; Claude Lavergne – drums

The Pulse Brothers

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