Showing posts with label Barbara Casini. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barbara Casini. Show all posts

Saturday, November 2, 2019

Enrico Rava - Italian Ballads

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:15
Size: 170,8 MB
Art: Front

(1:54)  1. The Song Of Gelsomina
(5:07)  2. Giulietta Degli Spiriti
(5:23)  3. Un Bel Di, Vedremo
(8:30)  4. Il Cielo In Una Stanza
(4:20)  5. Margherita
(4:40)  6. Bella
(3:22)  7. Un Canto
(7:28)  8. Diva
(5:51)  9. Torna A Surriento
(6:07) 10. Senza Fine
(2:58) 11. E Se Domani
(4:52) 12. Due Note
(3:26) 13. Stringimi Forte I Polsi
(6:01) 14. More
(2:09) 15. O Mio Babbino Caro

He is twelve years old, but he shows even more, this record by Enrico Rava's Electric Five dedicated to the evergreens of our local music. Impressive is the fact that the musicians involved  then only partially established, but today great realities of Italian jazz and not only are so impalpable in this work, in which everyone (perhaps with the sole exception of the guests Richard Galliano and Barbara Casini) is limit to accompany the trumpet of the leader, engaged mostly to the mere exposition of the lyric theme from time to time on stage, without adding anything expressive to it. Indeed, sometimes even removing something from the originals, as in "Margherita" or in the unlistenable "Endless". 

What else to say? That these operations (some time too practiced by Rava, especially live) may have some market feedback, but should be avoided for the sake of jazz music. In fact, while banalities of this kind flood the newsstands as attachments to magazines, the clubs are becoming increasingly deserted and the reviews close their doors.On the contrary, it has even come to reprint its fruits ...Translate By Google ~ AAJ Italy Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/italian-ballads-enrico-rava-venus-records-review-by-aaji-staff.php

Personnel: Enrico Rava (trumpet), Domenico Caliri (guitar), Roberto Cecchetto (guitar), Giovanni Maier (double bass), UT Gandhi (drums, percussion), Barbara Casini (vocals), Richard Galliano (accordion).

Italian Ballads

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Enrico Rava, Barbara Casini - Vento

Styles: Vocal, Guitar And Trumpet
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:07
Size: 115,6 MB
Art: Front

(0:46)  1. Aspettando un Sogno
(3:50)  2. L'Angelo
(4:50)  3. Cidade do Amor Demais
(7:10)  4. La Maschera
(4:31)  5. Vento
(4:56)  6. Bolero do Parecer
(1:34)  7. Ballo
(5:10)  8. Malinconica Abitudine
(6:03)  9. Un'Alba Limpida
(4:59) 10. Une petite folie
(4:49) 11. Fin de l'ennui
(1:24) 12. Early Autumn

She was born in Florence, on July 30, 1954, to Florentine parents, who rarely set their sights on Italy. In the house we listened to the songs in vogue, jazz and classical music. Barbara played the piano, the guitar, but above all sang, of everything: the Beatles, Rita Pavone, Mina. Then one day "new" records arrived, a new sound coming from overseas: the Bossa Nova . Barbara was fifteen years old. Thus began his love for Brazilian music , an extraordinary love that never ended, and which, once grown, pushed her to a turning point in life: despite her degree in psychology, she abandoned the project to become a psychoanalyst and decide to be a singer. He throws himself into the frantic search for everything concerning Brazil, music, literature and the Portuguese language itself. Finally in 1982 he made his first trip to that dreamed land. Elis Regina has been dead for a year and Barbara has already internalized her way of singing, she knows every breath, every smile and every tear that comes out of Elis's song. On that first trip he fills a suitcase with records , and the soul of sounds and names! He realizes that there is an unknown and wonderful world of composers, musicians, and performers who open new horizons to explore. When Barbara returns to Brazil, she goes a long way, from Rio to S Luis do Maranhão, "discovers" the Nordeste, re-falls in love, meets Luiz Gonzaga while she is recording her latest album just before she dies, learns her songs and those of Geraldo Azevedo, Xangai, Jatobá. His repertoire changes radically: Barbara in Italy spreads the popular music of that different Brazil, plays the triangle and the zabumba, canta côco e baião, maracatu and bumba meu boi, once again he enjoys and is moved. In the meantime he forms the Trio OUTRO LADO with Beppe Fornaroli and Naco , with whom he records an LP, "Outro Lado", (reprinted on CD by Philology in 1999). Many years pass, many journeys, many meetings. In 1994 he formed a quartet with Stefano Bollani on the piano, Raffaello Pareti on the double bass and Francesco Petreni on drums, a group that remained active until the early 2000s. He collaborates with great Italian and foreign musicians of the jazz scene (Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Fabrizio Bosso, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz) and Brazilian Popular Music, such as Toninho Horta and Guinga, and participates with various formations in the most important Italian festivals. Along his more than thirty-year career he also engages with jazz and with Italian and French songs. Translate By Google http://www.barbaracasini.it/barbara-casini-biografia/

This hugely popular trumpet player (born in Trieste, Italy in 1939) almost single-handedly brought Italian jazz to international attention. He began playing Dixieland trombone in Turin, but after hearing Miles Davis, switched instruments and embraced the modern style. Other key meetings were with Gato Barbieri, with whom he recorded movie soundtracks in 1962, and Chet Baker. He began to play with Steve Lacy and also teamed up with South African expatriates Louis Moholo and John Dyani and recorded The Forest and the Zoo (ESP) live in Argentina. In 1967, he moved to New York, playing with Roswell Rudd, Marion Brown, Rashied Ali, Cecil Taylor, and Charlie Haden. In a brief return to Europe, Rava recorded with Lee Konitz (Stereokonitz, RCA) and Manfred Schoof (European Echoes, FMP). From 1969 to 1976, he was back in New York, recording Escalator Over the Hill with Carla Bley's Jazz Composers' Orchestra. After his first album as a leader, Il Giro del Giorno in 80 Mondi (Black Saint), he began to lead his own pianoless quartets and quintets. His recorded output numbers over 100 records, and over 30 as a leader. ECM has reissued some of his essential recordings of the '70s, like The Pilgrim and the Stars, The Plot, and Enrico Rava Quartet, while Soul Note and Label Bleu published CDs by his innovative Electric Five (in reality a sextet, as he always excludes himself from the count), which includes two electric guitars. With keyboard master Franco D'Andrea and trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Rava recorded Bix and Pop (Philology) and Shades of Chet, tributes to Bix Beiderbecke and Armstrong, and to Chet Baker, respectively. Also of note are Rava, L'opera Va and Carmen, gorgeous readings of opera arias. In 2001, he created a new quintet with young talents Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Bonaccorso, and Roberto Gatto, and toured with old friends Roswell Rudd and Gato Barbieri, releasing Easy Living with them in 2004 on ECM. Three years later, after Bollani, who had struck out as a solo player, was replaced by Andrea Pozza, The Words and the Days came out. In 2007, Rava and pianist Stefano Bollani released The Third Man on ECM. Rava followed the release in 2009 with New York Days, a collection of moody originals with a film noir tinge, backed by a band that included Bollani, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Paul Motian. Rava broke in a new all-Italian quintet for Tribe, which was issued by ECM in the fall of 2011. Its members included trombonist Gianluca Petrella, pianist Giovanni Guidi, bassist Gabriele Evangelista, and drummer Fabrizio Sferra. Guitarist Giacomo Ancillotto also guested on the set, expanding the lineup on various selections. Rava made a wide left turn for 2012's On the Dance Floor. Amazingly, the trumpeter only became aware of pop singer Michael Jackson's music after his death, and he became obsessed with it. The album, his tribute to what he considers the late singer's contribution to 20th century music, was recorded with Parco della Musica Jazz Lab at the Rome Auditorium; it is entirely comprised of Jackson's material. In 2019, he appeared alongside saxophonist Joe Lovano on the live ECM date Roma. Translate By Google ~ Francesco Martinelli https://www.allmusic.com/artist/enrico-rava-mn0000182392/biography

Personnel:  Barbara Casini (vocals, guitar); Enrico Rava (trumpet, flugelhorn); Mauro Negri (clarinet); Stefano Bollani (piano); Giovanni Tommaso (bass); Roberto Gatto (drums)

Vento

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Barbara Casini - Uragano Elis

Styles: Vocal, Brazilian Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:22
Size: 131,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:03)  1. Agora Ta'
(4:12)  2. E' Com Esse Que Eu Vou
(4:21)  3. Corrida de Jancada
(6:04)  4. Na Batucada Da Vida
(2:05)  5. Marambaia
(3:19)  6. Vou Deitar e Rolar
(8:33)  7. Valsarancho
(4:03)  8. Alo Alo Marciano
(4:59)  9. Ponta de Areia / Cancao da America
(4:56) 10. Veracruz
(6:04) 11. Bolero de Sata'
(4:37) 12. Calcanhar de Aquiles

A pampered homage to Elis Regina by one of our best performers of Brazilian music. The artistic personality of Barbara Casini is unquestionable, as is her love for Brazilian music and the Portuguese language, which is now her second (or first) language. In the notes of the booklet the same Florentine musician says of Elis: " the emotion always on the lips, you fall in love with his breaths, tears and smiles guessed in his song ". And these are the feelings that Barbara Casini manages to convey in her interpretations. Twelve songs that marked the short life of the Brazilian singer, who disappeared only thirty-seven years, re-harmonized and arranged by Paolo Silvestri and performed by a rich ensemble: Riccardo Luppi with saxophones and flute, Marco Tamburini on trumpet and filicorno, Roberto Rossi on trombone and conchiglie, Natalio Mangalavite on piano and rhodes, Dado Moroni on piano playing three pieces, Sandro Gibellini on guitars, Raffaello Pareti on double bass and electric bass, Francesco Petreni on drums and Heraldo Da Silva : pandeiro, cuica, tamborim, surdo, congas. A cascade of sounds that intertwine around the luminous voice of the leader, whose experience and ability ignites every piece. S ranges from authors such as Baden Powell and Milton Nascimento to Pedro Caetano and Edo Lobo , up to Guinga , guitarist and composer who recently collaborated with Gabriele Mirabassi . A brilliant repertoire, which sparks energy, but not without lyrical and melancholic moments, such as the splendid Ponta de Areia , introduced by a single flute by Riccardo Luppi, which demonstrates its versatility also for saxophones. Rossi's trombone sings well in Agora Tà , dialoguing with the voice supported by the choral harmony of drums and percussion and by the punctual walking of Pareti . Moroni 's intervention in Corrida de Jangada , Valsarancho and Veracruz embellishes the three pieces with exquisitely jazzy fragrances. Casini puts his heart in every single song, tears and screams his passion but also under his breath, covering all the vocal forms imaginable, modulating the contrasts and the rhythmic changes. The orchestrality of the performances is the added value as well as the arrangements by Silvestri . Each of the musicians enriches them with new themes, new sensations. The story of Elis "Furacao" is retraced with extreme professionalism and a lot of artistic devotion. Translate by Google http://www.jazzitalia.net/recensioni/uraganoelis.asp

Uragano Elis

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Barbara Casini & Renato Sellani - Gershwin & More

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:27
Size: 124,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:10)  1. The Man I Love
(3:36)  2. But Not For Me
(5:48)  3. Lover Man
(3:59)  4. Our Love Is Here To Stay
(4:14)  5. All Of Me
(4:41)  6. The Nearness Of You
(4:47)  7. A Foggy Day
(2:51)  8. Soon
(4:14)  9. You Go To My Head
(4:58) 10. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:15) 11. They Can't Take Away From Me
(5:48) 12. Summertime

Barbara Casini (born 1954 in Florence) is an Italian vocalist and guitar player. Studying piano from her youth, she was exposed to Bossa Nova at the age of 15, which had a marked influence on her musical life. After graduating in psychology from the University of Padova, she moved on to become an important voice for Brazilian music and jazz in particular in Italy and beyond after first performing in 1979. She has since recorded and performed with Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Leo Walls, Francisco Petreni, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, amongst others and with her own group, Outro Lado. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Casini

Gershwin & More