Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:25
Size: 169,2 MB
Art: Front
(10:54) 1. What's New?
( 5:32) 2. Trawi
(16:05) 3. African Suite: the Market / The River / Ghanian Village
( 9:51) 4. Jamal
( 6:36) 5. Easy Living
( 9:18) 6. The Duck and the Duchess
( 7:58) 7. Skylark
( 7:08) 8. When Will the Blues Leave
As a pianist and composer, Dado Moroni is an elegant stylist whose post-Ahmad Jamal voicings and Gil Evans-styled arrangements even for small ensembles are singular in their subtle, suave grace and their quiet musical expertise. This trio date with a young rhythm section (Rosario Bonaccorso on bass and Gianni Cazzola on drums) is an amalgam of the familiar and ambitious for Moroni. His own compositions, which make up half the album, tend toward the inherently melodic side of his nature: There's the charming ostinato aplomb in "The Duck and the Duchess" and the multi-faceted chromatic gracefulness of "African Suite," which loops three different strains of rhythms around a complex harmonic structure that examines all the tones between B and D. And then there's the adventurous improviser who tackles the outrageously difficult melodic line in Ornette Coleman's "When Will the Blues Leave," which extrapolates a 12-bar blues and pours it into a fugue-like structure of flatted ninths. To temper the two poles, there are readings of Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark" done as an exercise in intervallic interplay and mode-shifting melodic exchange and a solid post-bop reading of Robin & Rainger's "Easy Living." This is piano trio jazz at its lyrical, exciting best.~ Thom Jurek https://www.allmusic.com/album/whats-new-mw0000422873
Personnel: Dado Moroni(p); Rosario Bonaccorso(b); Gianni Cazzola(ds)
Personnel: Dado Moroni(p); Rosario Bonaccorso(b); Gianni Cazzola(ds)
What's New?