Red Mitchell, Guido Manusardi - Formidouble!!! Live in April 1974 at Guldhatten Club in Stockholm

Styles: Post Bop, Piano Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:03
Size: 138,5 MB
Art: Front

( 9:55)  1. Spanish Meeting
( 9:58)  2. Country Dance
( 5:54)  3. So What
( 6:43)  4. Oleo
( 6:03)  5. God Bless the Child
(12:08)  6. Jacol Tambalelor
( 9:19)  7. My Romance

He did well and the Splasc (h) to document a splendid Scandinavian concert of '74, held by the Italian-American duo Guido Manusardi - Red Mitchell. Formidouble is the result of an artistic association of rare elegance and sobriety, cemented by a close relationship of friendship between the two musicians, both moved to northern Europe around the mid-70s.Quintessence of jazz, swing is an apparently easy way that only a few manage to raise to perfection, as a basis of creative and improvitive vigor. This category includes both the Italian pianist and the American bass player, who, from the height of a balanced speech, make simple and simple what is not.Consider, for example, the daring harmonies of the two themes ("Country Dance", "Jacol tambalelor") signed by the Romanian contrabbassist Johnny Raducanu, re-evoked with an admirable hint of tones and still the swinging, extrovert version of "My Romance", all conducted on average times. Faced with a proof of capital and high artistic quality, it is difficult to highlight the best moments of the album. It will be limited to (re) emphasize the duo the encyclopedic mastery of all jazz styles, as a starting point for creatively re-harmonizing the standards. In some episodes human understanding translates into the extemporaneous choice of themes, on which the pianist often works tasty melodic digressions between jazz matrix and folclorical repertoire, however embellished by Mitchell thanks to a masterful use of the bow tuned to fifths.~ AAJ Italy Staff https://www.allaboutjazz.com/formidouble-guido-manusardi-splasch-records-review-by-aaji-staff.php

Personnel: Guido Manusardi (piano); Red Mitchell (double bass)

Formidouble!!! Live in April 1974 at Guldhatten Club in Stockholm

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Gianni Basso & Guido Manusardi Trio - Live At Down Town

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 70:32
Size: 162,8 MB
Art: Front

(10:49)  1. Bye Bye Blackbird
( 8:20)  2. There's No Greater Love
(10:03)  3. I Close My Eyes
( 9:16)  4. You Stepped Out of a Dream
(10:03)  5. Old Folks
(11:19)  6. Man I Love
(10:42)  7. I Love You

This set of standards by Italian tenor boss Gianni Basso with Guido Manusardi's piano trio is notable only for two things: the poor sound the stereo needs to be turned nearly all the way up for the listener to be able to engage the entire band and for the extremely snoozy choice of material. Coming from the Johnny Griffin school of tenor players, Basso has a warm, slightly raw tone that encourages the more R&B side of the jazz canon for its fullest expression. Basso plays Coltrane on "Bye Bye Blackbird," a tune he can pull off melodically, but improvisationally he relates with clichés that dip back into the blues book on the changes. He doesn't extend them or invert them, he merely blows over them and loudly so the rest of the band is buried in the mix. As for other standards like "Old Folks," "There Is No Greater Love," "The Man I Love," and "I Close My Eyes," the performances are adequate but never heat up past lukewarm. Manusardi is a fine accompanist, but hardly a refined soloist; his own breaks are filled with chordal reworking of the tune's harmony for exactly the same number of choruses (four) before turning it over to Basso, who slips through the motions of playing half the melody and harmonically extrapolating tune after tune. Yes, this is jazz but, for all its lyricism and good intentions, it's mediocre.~ Thom Jurek https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-down-town-mw0000722636      

Personnel: Gianni Basso - ts;  Guido Manusardi - p;  Stefano Travaglini - b; Massimo Manzi - d

Live At Down Town

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Teodora Enache, Guido Manusardi Trio - On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:33
Size: 88.2 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[2:05] 1. My Favourite Things
[6:49] 2. You Go To My Head
[4:57] 3. In A Mellow Tone
[2:22] 4. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[2:44] 5. Shiny Stockings
[6:14] 6. Round About Midnight
[4:08] 7. All Of Me
[3:15] 8. Route 66
[5:55] 9. My Funny Valentine

Teodora Enache (born September 30, 1967 in Oneşti) is considered one of the most important Jazz musicians in Romania.

She graduated with Honors the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University in Iaşi, with a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics. Then, she managed to switch to a successful career in Jazz, graduating the Canto section of Academy of Music in Iaşi and studying canto, improvisation and harmony with Johnny Răducanu and Edmond Deda and rhythm & bongos with Maurice de Martin.

Teodora won the Award for Best Debut at Sibiu International Jazz Festival in 1993. Between 1993 and 2004, she participated in numerous Jazz concerts and festivals in Romania, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and the USA. She performed with internationally acclaimed stars such as Curtis Feller, Les Paul, Stanley Jordan, Johnny Griffin, Rick Condit, Johnny Răducanu, Guido Manusardi, Al Copley and Philippe Duchemin. In 2004 Teodora Enache won The Excellence Prize for the Most Important Contribution in Jazz. She recorded her first disk in 1997, followed by other eight in Romania and the USA. Hers latest project is Rădăcini - Shorashim (English: Roots), Romanian and Jewish songs in Jazz Rhythms.

On The Sunny Side Of The Stree

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