Carlo Uboldi Trio Guest Scott Hamilton - Live At Jazz Appeal

Styles: Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:39
Size: 144,0 MB
Art: Front + Back

(10:22)  1. Tangerine
(12:09)  2. The Way You Look Tonight
(11:22)  3. Have You Met Miss Jones
( 4:39)  4. Sweet Georgia Brown
( 5:35)  5. The Shadow Of Your Smile
( 9:51)  6. Besame Mucho
( 8:37)  7. Mack The Knife

Born in Como in the 1996 (but of italy-swiss nazionality), Carlo Uboldi begin studying music at 6 years, thanks to a keen-family on music. In 1983 and 1984 he partecipates to the different festivals of the jazz in Como. Infact he points out his swing-phrasing and since then he starts his professional carreer,playing with different and various swing and be-bop groups in Italy and abroad. At the same time he teaches in the different schools in Milan and Como (Italy). In the meantime he continue studying with the teacher "Ettore Righello. In 1992 he works with the Fritz Hartschuh's quintet (together with the Paolo Tomelleri) in Germany, with whom he takes part in the Cruise "Jazz at the Sea" with the name-groupe "swinging Italy", during which Carlo Uboldi has the opportunity to play with the best American-musicians. In swiss he knows some of the best and important local-musicians (Oliviero Giovannoni and Danilo Moccia), with whom he plays again in various formation now. For 1996 (till to-day) he has been taking part in the Gianni Coscia's quartet "A Kramer piaceva cosi"(together with the musicians such as Luciano Milanese e Ellade Bandini) and for 2000 he has been working with the quintet of the actress-singer Elisabetta De Palo (with the project "omaggio a Natalino Otto" who, together also with the musician Marco Ratti. They have recorded CD and till to-day plays in different theatres and festivals in Italy.

Today he works such as "free lance" in various and different jazz-groups and he is the leader, with Marco Castiglioni, of the sextet "DUDECOM " (with musicians such as Emilio Soana, Francesco Licitra, Stefano Dall'Ora, Marco Bianchi), with whom he performs his own swing/be-pop compositions. However, the Trio (together with the musician such as Dall'Ora (bass), e Castiglioni-(drums) is the best and test formation of Uboldi. This Trio is full of swing and they own (among the three of them) an ritmic – harmonic agreement that only little groups can boast of this characteristic. For an year he has been working with Luca Calabrese with whom interacts in a "duo" that presents standard and original-pieces. In his career he has worked also with Rudy Migliardi, Bruno de Filippi, Hengel Gualdi, Glauco Masetti, Stefano Bagnoli, and played also at the "New Orleans festival of Ascona (ch); jazz-festival of Sori in Italy; Conservatorium G.Verdi of Milan; B.Goodman story of Bergamo (Italy); "quelli che il jazz" of Milan; jazz club of Lucerna (ch), Rheinfelden(ch),Emmenbrucke(ch),Bulach(ch);conservatorium of Zagabria (J); jazzhaus of Freiburg(D); jazztone of Lorrach(ch);cafe cult, jazz keller e Alte Oper di Francoforte/Frankfurt (D); Rive jazzy IF Nyon (ch); rathaussaal of Karlstadt (D). Today Carlo Uboldi is esteemed as one of the best pianist o and he is also the nearest at the "Peterson-style". Contrarily to the other imitator-instrumentalists, he succeeds to propose himself with a particolar fantasy and volcanic-sensibility with traditional-passages and sometime with a refined phrasing with points of the vanguard. http://www.jazzitalia.net/public/blogs/24/carlouboldi_eng.asp#.V6ZLNzXQua4

Personnel:  Carlo Uboldi (Piano); Luciano Milanese (Bass); Marco Castiglioni (Drums); Scott Hamilton (Tenor sax).

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John McLaughlin - Liberation Time

Styles: Guitar Jazz
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:59
Size: 85,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:21) 1. As the Spirit Sings
(5:06) 2. Singing Our Secrets
(7:13) 3. Lockdown Blues
(2:28) 4. Mila Repa
(7:22) 5. Right Here, Right Now, Right On
(1:37) 6. Shade of Blue
(7:49) 7. Liberation Time

Perhaps the biggest success of Liberation Time is that its title feels sincere and not ironic. Such a sentiment could have easily come out as a cute bit of wishful thinking under the restrictions of pandemic life. Being who he is, though, John McLaughlin inevitably finds the value and positivity even in this strange state of affairs. "The wonderful thing about music is that you put the headphones on and you are all in the same room," he says in regards to the newly-standard modus operandi of virtual conference calls. Even if that's not literally true, the chemistry among this crew of friends is thankfully undimmed by distance.

Of course the closeness is partly due to the long working history of the 4th Dimension band of Gary Husband, Etienne Mbappe and Ranjit Barot. As a silver lining to the circumstances, though, McLaughlin takes advantage of the remote-recording method to include a handful of collaborators who might not have been available otherwise. His romping guitar and Husband's keys are joined by a different rhythm section on the cooking opener "As the Spirit Sings"; Julian Siegel's sax adds some extra bebop flavor to the intricate rock-fusion jam of "Right Here, Right Now, Right On" while an entirely different backing group flies through the quick changes.

Alongside the core quartet's jamming in spots such as the jaunty "Singing Our Secrets," or the too-bright-for-its-name "Lockdown Blues" (spiced up with some playful Indian konokol scatting while they're at it), the guest tracks manage to feel all of a piece with the overall program. The leader's uplifting spirit unifies the music and the cast as much as his voice on the guitar does. His fleet juicy fretwork is inimitable as ever, often still tearing through these fun licks at whiplash speed, surprisingly complemented by a couple of contemplative interludes featuring him at the piano another addition that probably would not have happened in what we used to call ordinary circumstances. Even if it can't quite hit the incendiary highs of Live at Ronnie Scott's (Abstract Logix, 2017) or John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring—Live in San Francisco (Abstract Logix, 2018), this is a sharp-cooking session radiant with liberating energy and hope for the future.By Geno Thackara https://www.allaboutjazz.com/liberation-time-john-mclaughlin-abstract-logix

Personel: John McLaughlin: guitar; Gary Husband: drums; Ranjit Barot: drums; Etienne Mbappe: bass; Roger Rossignol: piano; Jean Michel Aublette: bass; Vinnie Colaiuta: drums; Nicolas Viccaro: drums; Julian Siegel: saxophone, tenor; Sam Burgess: bass; Jérôme Regard: bass; Oz Ezzeldin: piano.

Liberation Time

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