George Robert, Tom Harrell Quintet - Cape Verde

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:24
Size: 161.2 MB
Styles: Bop, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1995/2014
Art: Front

[ 8:45] 1. Streets
[ 7:22] 2. Softly
[12:36] 3. Morning Star
[ 8:38] 4. Cape Verde
[ 9:58] 5. Missing You
[10:29] 6. Sail Away
[12:34] 7. Fast Lane

Alto Saxophone – George Robert; Bass – Reggie Johnson; Drums – Byron Landham; Flugelhorn, Trumpet – Tom Harrell; Piano – Dado Moroni. Recorded live in Rheinfelden, Switzerland on September 24-25, 1992.

This is the fifth and final release by the George Robert/Tom Harrell Quintet, taped during a pair of Swiss concerts in 1992. As in previous outings, the alto saxophonist and trumpeter/flüegelhornist are in top form and each musician also contributed strong originals as well; the potent rhythm section includes the underrated pianist Dado Moroni, bassist Reggie Johnson, and drummer Byron Landham. Harrell's snappy post-bop strut "Streets" features his flüegelhorn, plus fines solos by Robert and Johnson. An extended version of "Sail Away," an emotional driving samba that is also one of Harrell's best known compositions, is another highlight. Robert's rich ballad "Softly" also has a Latin feel to it, while his hard bop "Cape Verde" is clearly inspired by Horace Silver. The only work not composed by either co-leader is "Morning Star," by Rodgers Grant; this highly enjoyable work features an extensive solo by Moroni. The Robert/Harrell Quintet knew how to go out on top! ~Ken Dryden

Cape Verde

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Dado Moroni Trio - What's New?

Styles: Piano Jazz
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)

What's New?

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Dado Moroni - The Way I Am

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:26
Size: 155,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:11) 1. The Cup Bearers
(4:28) 2. Not Without You
(2:34) 3. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
(6:20) 4. I Can't Get Started
(4:59) 5. Improvistion in G Minor
(3:10) 6. Time Will Tell - Medley
(5:27) 7. The Man from Potter's Crossing - Medley
(5:00) 8. Yesterdays
(7:42) 9. Blue Dado
(8:47) 10. Ruby My Dear / Pannonica / Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk Medley
(2:43) 11. What Am I Here For
(5:00) 12. Lotus Blossom
(7:04) 13. S.K.J.

The renowned jazz musician Edgardo ‘Dado’ Moroni was born on this day in 1962 in Genoa. Moroni, who learned at the feet of some of the greats of American jazz music in Italian clubs in the 1980s and 90s, has recorded more than 25 albums, having released his first when he was only 17. He has appeared as a guest on many more albums and built such a reputation as a pianist and composer that he was able to become part of the American jazz scene himself in the 1990s, when he lived in New York. Moroni attributes his love of jazz music to his father’s passion for the genre, which meant that he grew up listening to the likes of Earl Hines, Fats Waller and Count Basie.Using a piano his parents had bought for his sister, Monica, he taught himself to play many of the songs he heard on the record player, receiving his first informal tuition from his mother, who played the accordion.

Formal piano lessons were arranged for him with the Genoa jazz pianist Flavio Crivelli, who introduced him to the music of Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie and contemporary pianists like Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal and Oscar Peterson. Moroni progressed so rapidly he was able to play professionally in clubs from the age of 14. The Italian jazz scene while he was growing up was popular but not wealthy. Club owners were keen to hire famous artists but could not always afford to pay for support musicians. This worked to the advantage of up-and-coming Italian musicians such as Moroni, who were more than happy to make up the numbers. Moroni found himself accompanying such internationally renowned names as Harry “Sweets” Edison, Freddie Hubbard, and even greats such as Peterson and Gillespie when they were on tour in Europe. It was Gillespie, Moroni said, who persuaded him to back his own talent and pursue a career in music after doubts about his ability to make a living had led him to embark on studies for a law degree.

Moroni began a collaboration with two other Italian jazz musicians, Tullio de Piscopo and Franco Ambrosetti. At just 17 years old, he recorded an album with De Piscopo and the American bassist Julius Farmer and another with Ambrosetti and the Danish bass player Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Through the 80s, he played at festivals and clubs across Europe, often with a trio led by Duke Ellington’s former bassist, Jimmy Woode. In 1987, at the age of just 25, he was invited as the only European musician to be part of the jury of the Thelonious Monk international piano award held in Washington in 1987. Moroni moved to the United States in 1991 and became part of the New York jazz scene, performing with several bands and contributing to the rich heritage of Italian musicians in America. He appeared at the most prestigious jazz clubs in the city, such as the Blue Note, Birdland, Bradley’s and the Village Vanguard. In 1995 he returned to Italy to join the classical pianist Antonio Ballista in a project called “Two Pianos, One Soul”, which played some of Italy’s major theatres, among them the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Teatro Verdi in Florence and the Teatro Carlo Felice in his native Genoa. Moroni won the prestigious Umbria Jazz Award in the same year. In 2007 he won the "Best Jazz Act" at the Italian Jazz Awards. He is now based permanently in Italy and continues to record and tour, while at the same time teaching jazz piano at the Como Conservatory of Music. https://www.italyonthisday.com/2018/10/dado-moroni-jazz-musician-dizzy-gillespie.html

The Way I Am

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Dado Moroni - With Duke in Mind (Piano Solo)

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:09
Size: 148,8 MB
Art: Front

(1:19) 1. What Am I Here For - Entrance
(3:22) 2. There Was Nobody Looking
(6:08) 3. Main Stem
(6:39) 4. All Too Soon
(4:47) 5. Pleadin' for Love
(5:02) 6. So
(3:46) 7. Black Beauty
(5:00) 8. Day Dream
(3:11) 9. Cottontail
(5:50) 10. Isfahan
(6:02) 11. Caravan
(4:59) 12. Warm Valley
(5:19) 13. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
(2:44) 14. What Am I Here For - Exit

Born Edgardo Moroni, 20 October 1962, Genoa, Italy. Moroni began playing piano as a tiny child, encouraged by a very musical family background. Although his father was a dance band singer and his grandfather an opera singer, he turned to jazz and in his early teenage years also took up the bass. Some of his early influences came through his father’s record collection, which included artists such as Erroll Garner, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Art Tatum and Fats Waller. During the 70s and early 80s his experience and his reputation grew and he worked not only with noted Italian musicians, such as Franco Ambrosetti and Gianni Basso, but also with visiting American artists. Over the years, these included Freddie Hubbard, James Moody and Clark Terry.

He was a member of a trio led by Jimmy Woode, played with Mingus Dynasty, and toured extensively with a wide range of mainstream, hard bop and contemporary jazz artists. His reputation solidified in the USA owing to numerous visits and high profile concerts and well-received albums, on which he appeared as a sideman, with Ray Brown, Jesse Davis, Tom Harrell, and Lee Konitz. Although his stylish and vigorous playing is heavily bop influenced, Moroni’s performances often reveal touches of those early piano influences, Waller and Tatum for example, which help bring to his playing a satisfyingly broad texture. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dado-moroni-mn0000665243/biography

With Duke in Mind (Piano Solo)

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Franco Ambrosetti - Grazie Italia

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:48
Size: 155,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:20)  1. Roma non fà la stupida
(5:52)  2. Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)
(3:37)  3. Vecchio frack
(7:48)  4. Tintarella di luna
(5:31)  5. E se domani
(6:56)  6. Donna
(4:55)  7. E la chiamano estate
(8:10)  8. Le tue mani
(9:05)  9. Caruso
(4:42) 10. Nun è peccato
(3:48) 11. Che cosa c'è

Franco Ambrosetti has had dual careers as a very successful businessman, and as a fine trumpeter and flügelhornist inspired by Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis. His father Flavio Ambrosetti was an excellent saxophonist. Franco had piano lessons for eight years but is self-taught on trumpet, which he did not take up until he was 17. In 1972, he was one of the founders of the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, and through the years he has recorded quite a few worthy hard bop-ish albums for Enja in addition to leading his own groups.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/franco-ambrosetti-mn0000195215/biography

Personnel:  Franco Ambrosetti (trumpet), Furio di Castri (double bass), Alfredo Golino (drums), Antonio Farao (piano), Gabriele Comeglio (alto saxophone), Gianluca Ambrosetti (soprano saxophone), Dado Moroni (piano), Roberto Gatto (drums) ), Maurizio Giammarco (tenor saxophone), Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Flavio Ambrosetti (tenor saxophone), Franco Ambrosetti (flugelhorn), Enrico Rava (trumpet), Dado Moroni (organ), Alfredo Golino (percussion), Maurizio Giammarco (soprano) saxophone).

Grazie Italia

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George Robert - Featuring Mr. Clark Terry Live

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:59
Size: 171.7 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 1994
Art: Front

[12:28] 1. The Snapper
[ 7:10] 2. Michelle
[10:25] 3. Samba De Gumz
[12:36] 4. On Green Dophin Street
[11:37] 5. Simple Waltz
[ 7:39] 6. Joan
[13:02] 7. Mumbles

Alto Saxophone – George Robert; Bass – Isla Eckinger; Drum – Peter Schmidlin; Flugelhorn – Clark Terry; Piano – Dado Moroni. Live at Jazzclub Q-4 Rheinfelden, Dec 8, 1990.

Born on September 15, 1960 in Chambésy (Geneva), Switzerland, George Robert is internationally recognized as one of the leading alto saxophonists in jazz today. His discography includes more than 50 albums, among others with Kenny Barron (7), Clark Terry (5), Tom Harrell (5), Phil Woods (4), Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, Ivan Lins, Ray Drummond, Rufus Reid, Billy Hart, the Metropole Orchestra and many others.

In 2008 he was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. He has been touring throughout the world since 1984 and is the author of « The Music of George Robert » (Advance Music). He is an international Yamaha recording & performing artist and is also endorsed by D’Addario/Rico reeds.

Featuring Mr. Clark Terry Live mc
Featuring Mr. Clark Terry Live zippy

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Franco Ambrosetti - Cheers

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 66:46

Size: 152.8 MB

Styles: Contemporary jazz, Trumpet jazz

Year: 2015

Art: Front

[8:05] 1. Autumn Leaves

[5:42] 2. No Silia, No Party

[8:23] 3. I'm Glad There Is You

[8:52] 4. Bye Bye Blackbird

[7:50] 5. Drums Corrida

[7:11] 6. Someday My Prince Will Come

[8:28] 7. The Smart Went Crazy

[6:48] 8. Midnight Voyage

[5:23] 9. Body And Soul

Franco Ambrosetti - flugelhorn; Kenny Barron - piano; Buster Williams - bass; Jack DeJohnette - drums; John Scofield - guitar; Randy Brecker - trumpet; Greg Osby - alto saxophone; Gianluca Ambrosetti - soprano saxophone; Antonio Faraò - piano; Uri Caine - piano; Dado Moroni - piano;Terry Lyne Carrington - drums.

Franco Ambrosetti is a Swiss jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer born in Lugano, Switzerland, perhaps most noteworthy for his many albums released on the jazz recording label Enja Records. Ambrosetti's father, Flavio, was a saxophonist who once played sax opposite Charlie Parker. Franco worked professionally with his father frequently in a group which also included George Gruntz, among others. Franco has classical piano training and is also a self-taught trumpeter. Ambrosetti has worked with several American and European musicians in recordings and at jazz festivals and concerts, including Kenny Clarke, Dexter Gordon, Phil Woods, Cannonball Adderley, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Mike Stern, Hal Galper and Romano Mussolini. Ambrosetti also holds a Masters Degree in economics from the University of Basel.

Cheers

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Paola Arnesano, Dado Moroni - Defrà

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:50
Size: 148.4 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:39] 1. Autumn In New York
[3:31] 2. But Not For Me
[6:02] 3. Amarti Con Gli Occhi
[3:58] 4. Someone To Watch Over Me
[6:29] 5. Alfie
[5:06] 6. Like Someone In Love
[7:37] 7. Se Todos Fossem Iguas A Voce
[4:00] 8. Nice Work If You Can Get It
[4:51] 9. I Want To Be Happy
[5:53] 10. Defrá
[4:30] 11. Cherokee
[5:39] 12. Body And Soul
[2:29] 13. Stomping At The Savoy

Paola Arnesano was born in Bari. She studied singing with the soprano Maria Grazia Pani and acting with Antonella Porfido and Franco Damascelli. Her debut as a jazz singer goes back to the end of the eighties when, in co-operation with Mario Rosini on piano, she formed a quintet in her name. In the meantime she studied the piano with Nico Marziliano and she also studied arrangement for big band with the maestro Luigi Giannatempo.

Very fond of jazz samba and bossa nova, she studied their language and repertoire: this would result in the establishment of permanent bands like the Abrasileirado and the Trio de Janeiro, whose co-leader is Guido Di Leone. Mainly attracted to the cool singers of the fifties, she started to develop original projects, such as a jazz re-interpretation of the Italian songs of the forties or the writing of lyrics for a more recent music which had never been sung before. At the same time she started to compose her own music and this would lead to the release of her first two records. In the meantime she was asked to be permanently part of Attilio Zanchi’s quartet which, besides him, the double bass player, was also formed by Guido Di Leone and Gilson Silveira. Moreover she also steadily co-operated with Davide Santorsola, Mimmo Campanale and Maurizio Quintavalle. At that time she got second at the Premio Urbani.

Her concert activity took her to England, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. She gave several seminars in Italian schools and universities. Furthermore, in the last few years, she has also been performing as a member of the Faraualla vocal quartet and she has been co-operating with high calibre musicians such as Noa, Maria Pia De Vito, Paolino Dalla Porta, Francesco Sotgiu, Andrea Parodi, Pino Minafra, Rita Marcotulli, Bebo Ferra, Paolo Pietrangeli, Carmen Consoli, Antonella Ruggiero. Since 1993 she has worked at the music school Il Pentagramma in Bari, where she teaches singing, harmony and improvisation technique. Teacher of jazz singing at Conservatory Niccolò Piccinni in Bari. She won the Italian Jazz Awards "Luca Flores" 2009 as the "best jazz singer" in Italy.

Defrà

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George Robert & Dado Moroni - Youngbloods

Styles: Trombone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:40
Size: 162,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:59)  1. I Remember You
(5:57)  2. Blues For Andy
(3:37)  3. Lush Life
(6:28)  4. Love's Mirror Image
(4:16)  5. East of the Sun
(5:47)  6. Missing You
(3:38)  7. Voyage
(5:09)  8. My Kind Of World
(4:44)  9. Pacific Sunset
(5:09) 10. Easy to Love
(4:28) 11. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
(4:15) 12. Stablemates
(4:48) 13. Susanita
(7:17) 14. Body And Soul

This duo date features two of Europe's finest jazz musicians of the 1990s, George Robert and Dado Moroni, in a program that mixes exciting versions of standards and jazz compositions. "I Remember You" gets things off to a fast start, with Robert's alto sax and Moroni's piano inviting comparison to a match of Phil Woods and Kenny Barron. This comparison doesn't last, as these musical chameleons refuse to be pigeonholed; a mesmerizing "Lush Life," a driving "Easy to Love," and an emotional take of "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." The duo also interprets classics from the jazz canon, such as "Stablemates" and Kenny Barron's "Voyage" (which has become one of the most frequently interpreted works of the post-bop era) with the same level of imagination. 

The only misfires occur when Moroni makes an ill-advised switch to a Fender Rhodes electric piano, badly dating Jimmy Woode's otherwise swinging "My Kind of World," as well as distracting from the beauty of Robert's lyrical clarinet on "Body and Soul" and a bossa nova arrangement of "East of the Sun." Robert also wrote three of the songs, including the lively gospel-flavored "Blues for Andy," the bittersweet ballad "Missing You," and the Latin-flavored "Pacific Sunset." Both of these talented musicians should command wider audiences as the 21st century progresses. ~ Ken Dryden  http://www.allmusic.com/album/youngbloods-mw0000181476

Personnel: George Robert (trombone); Dado Moroni (piano, Fender Rhodes piano).

Youngbloods

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