Showing posts with label Paolo Tomelleri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paolo Tomelleri. Show all posts

Friday, July 9, 2021

Paolo Tomelleri Big Band - The Overwhelming Love

Styles: Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 111:27
Size: 260,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:11) 1. Intro America West Side Story
(5:08) 2. Moonglow
(3:16) 3. L'uomo dal Braccio D'oro
(4:56) 4. Them There Eyes
(5:59) 5. Acque Amare
(4:25) 6. Le Strade di Notte
(4:00) 7. Fever
(3:51) 8. I Wish I Were Twins
(6:25) 9. After You've Gone
(5:26) 10. What's Good for Me
(4:06) 11. Woodchopper's Ball
(5:20) 12. Maria
(4:57) 13. Dark Eyes
(5:23) 14. Just a Gigolo
(8:52) 15. I've Found a New Baby
(4:22) 16. I've Got You Under My Skin
(2:02) 17. Typewriter
(4:17) 18. Almost in Your Arms
(5:48) 19. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
(3:16) 20. Whirlybird
(3:34) 21. Luna indiscreta
(3:04) 22. I Wish I Knew
(3:57) 23. Rockin' in Rhythm
(6:41) 24. C Jam Blues

After the great success of the 2012 and 2013 editions of “International Live Swing” and after “Jazz Broadway 2011”, the great gala dedicated to swing music and dance returns to Milan. The best performers on the international scene will "tell us", with music and dance, how Jazz was born from the contamination of a large number of musical and entertainment genres: from Broadway musicals to Hollywood music, up to the jazz reinterpretation of famous classical music pieces.

Special Guests: Dan Barrett (trombone, US), Rebecca Kilgore (vocal, US), Frank Roberscheuten (clarinet, US), Martin Breinschmid (vibraphone and drums, US) With the participation of: Rossano Sportiello (jazz piano, US), Paolo Alderighi (jazz piano, IT), Stephanie Trick (jazz piano, US) And with the extraordinary participation of: Karima Ballerini Swing: Vincenzo Fesi (dancer and choreographer of the stage area of the theater, IT), Marco Larosa and Sonia Salsedo (dancers and choreographers of the stalls areas, IT) and a dance group of international importance: Isabella Gregorio (IT), Katja Hrastar (Slovenia), Moe Sakan (Japan), Remy Kuoaku Kouame (France) and Pontus Persson (Swiden).

"Jazz Side Story" refers to the great "West Side Story", but it is also a metaphor for how Jazz interprets the theme of our life and other forms of musical expression. West Side Story is the famous musical adaptation of the great Leonard Bernstein of Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare 1594).

The theme of the two lovers opposed by circumstances is much older and recalls dramas and legends of ancient Greece and the Celtic world, such as Troilus and Cressida, Tristan and Isolde, of course.

The theme is that of "overwhelming love", which through West Side Story, brings us to the role that Jazz has had in the world of music.

Overwhelming love is the "fil rouge" of the show: a narration of music and dance set in the America of the '30s and' 40s, through a path that intertwines the history of music, costume and vintage style, swing dances and by composers who in their time were great innovators.

On the stage of the Dal Verme the Big Band by Paolo Tomelleri, 20 brass to which is added a section of 12 strings, 2 opposing pianos, 2 drums and other instruments constitute a unique formation of its kind, which po jazz is transformed into a big band, until it becomes one of the largest symphonic rhythm orchestras in Italy.

The protagonists of the evening are jazz music and swing dance, the challenges between soloists on the international scene, which retrace Broadway musicals and certain themes of classical music.

It is known that that era was also linked to the world of dance. The orchestras addressed an audience of dancers, especially in New York. The Roseland, the Alhambra, the Savoy Ballroom were the places where most of the young people went to hear their idols. Ballrooms for 2000 people. Dancing also played a fundamental role in Broadway plays, vaudeville shows, the Cotton Club. There was no successful show that did not feature a group of dancers. It was precisely the dance, despite racial discrimination, that brought black and white boys and girls together. Swing dance became a kind of fever of the time and, subsequently, it was considered by historians to be an important element of social aggregation. At Dal Verme, as in the great shows of the time, a phenomenal dance troupe will be staged to revive the atmosphere of the great ballrooms in the America of the 1930s and 1940s. The dancers invited to the gala come from all over Europe. The choreographies are curated by Vincenzo Fesi, an internationally renowned artist and dancer.Translate By Google https://www.ipomeriggi.it/eventi/jazz-side-story-the-overwhelming-love/

The Overwhelming Love

Monday, February 10, 2020

Paolo Tomelleri Big Band/Nicki Parrott - A Jazz Story. Volume 1

Styles: Swing Jazz 
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:17
Size: 127,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:24)  1. Moon River
(7:42)  2. Chinatown My Chinatown
(2:38)  3. Nocturne, Op.9: No. 2 - Jazz Version
(5:08)  4. Mississipi Rag
(4:10)  5. Besame Mucho
(6:37)  6. One o'Clock Jump
(2:46)  7. Fidgety Feet
(7:44)  8. Deep Purple
(6:04)  9. Estrellita
(3:23) 10. Tutti Frutti
(3:36) 11. La Mer

After the extraordinary success of Jazz Broadway 2011, the great gala dedicated to swing music returns to Milan, in a new dress and a new concept: bringing together the best talents on the international scene in Milan. Together they will tell an extraordinary era for swing: the transition from Broadway musicals to the great musical themes of Hollywood films.

The gala reads in an original way the American song book of the 30s and 40s through a path that intertwines the history of music, costume and vintage style, swing dances and extraordinary composers who in their time were great innovators.

Big Band by Paolo Tomelleri (sax, trumpets, trombones, rhythms)
Scott Hamilton (tenor sax, among the greatest living saxophonists)
Carlo Bagnoli (baritone sax)
Niki Parrot (acoustic double bass and vocals)
Paolo Alderighi and Rossano Sportiello (piano)
Stephanie Trick (stride piano)
the drummers Tullio de Piscopo and Christian Meyer

80 years old and a career spanning 60 years: Paolo Tomelleri, rewarded at last year’s festival for his exceptional contribution to the development of jazz in Italy, is a legendary musician from the Milano scene. With experience also as a writer of theater and film music, he is a successful soloist and orchestra director who has collaborated with Enzo Jannacci for over thirty years (as well as with Ornella Vanoni, Giorgio Gaber, and Adriano Celentano) and with famous jazzists such as Tony Scott, Joe Venuti, Jimmy McPartland, Clark Terry, Bill Coleman, or Phil Woods.

A Jazz Story. Volume 1

Friday, February 27, 2015

Carlo Bagnoli, Paolo Tomelleri, Rossano Sportiello, Massimo Caracca - Bechet Project: Live At Il Malo

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:03
Size: 139.8 MB
Styles: New Orleans jazz
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[6:26] 1. Everybody Loves My Baby
[6:25] 2. Gone Away Blues
[6:18] 3. Runnin' Wild
[6:14] 4. If I Had You
[6:40] 5. China Boy
[4:42] 6. Passport To Paradise
[6:17] 7. Le Marchand De Poisson
[3:49] 8. Creole Song
[8:46] 9. Dans La Rue D'antibes
[5:21] 10. Promenade Dans Les Champs Elysées

Carlo Bagnoli (soprano sax); Paolo Tomelleri (clarinet); Rossano Sportiello (piano); Massimo Caracca (drums).

The number of musicians and critics who consider Sidney Bechet one of the greatest clarinet players of the New Orleans' jazz, is just high! Anyway, Bechet almost gave up playing bis clarinet and devoted himself to the soprano saxophone, instrument he had judged as particularly suitable for his unrestrained personality; in fact, it is just by such instrument that he became one of the most significant exponent of the origin of jazz. By his soprano sax, Bechet developed a very personal and unusual language, characterized by the extraordinary passion he used to give the notes, from the vigorous and hectic "vibrato", to the capacity of using the soprano as a driving voice of the orchestra (he was even called the only "trumpeter without trumpet!"). Therefore, Sidney Bechet is unanimously considered as the greatest soloist of soprano sax in the history of traditional jazz and absolutely one of the leading ones.

Carlo Bagnoli and Paolo Tomelleri, two historical figures of the Italian jazz, at their ease in various jazz styles, by this fresh quartet wish to pay a tribute to a real master of both soprano sax and clarinet. Without any intention of imitating his styIe, habit rather common in France but devoid of the personal identity that any musician should always keep in any situation, Carlo and Paolo want to repropose some tunes typical of Bechet' s career, whether during the American period or during the French one when he was literally consecrated as "le Dieu". Said tunes that belong to the repertory of the traditional jazz, are added to the other tunes composed by Bechet himself (Dans les rues d' Antibes, Promenade aux Champs Elysèes, Moulin a cafè, Petite fleur, Passport to paradise and so on).

Bechet Project: Live At Il Malo