Antonio Zambrini & Rita Marcotulli - La Conversazione

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:17
Size: 98,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:40) 1. Beatriz
(3:15) 2. Natale a Riminni
(2:26) 3. Garrincha
(5:49) 4. Small Ballad
(6:11) 5. La Strada
(5:39) 6. Melamp
(2:25) 7. Passato di Vedura
(3:35) 8. Giant Steps
(3:18) 9. Antonia
(2:35) 10. Canto Triste
(3:19) 11. Here's That Rainy Day

Born 1959, Rome, Italy. Playing piano from early childhood, Marcotulli studied classical music at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory before being drawn to Brazilian music. She also began moving onto the fringes of jazz and established a local reputation at first, before becoming well known among contemporary jazz audiences both at home and abroad. This was largely due to playing with musicians such as Chet Baker, Richard Galliano, Jon Christensen, Palle Danielsson, Peter Erskine, Steve Grossman, Joe Henderson, Hélène La Barrière, Joe Lovano, Tony Oxley, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Michel Bénita, Aldo Romano and Kenny Wheeler. In 1987 she was nominated for the Best Young Talent award in the Music Jazz Poll and the following year she was a member of Billy Cobham’s band, touring Europe and the USA and appearing on 1989’s Incoming. She spent some time in Sweden, before returning to Italy in the early 90s. In the late 90s, she played the San Remo festival in duo with Pat Metheny and also appeared as a member of a piano trio, with Paul Bley and John Taylor, at the Olympic Theatre of Vicenza.

Among other musicians with whom Marcotulli has worked and sometimes recorded are Sal Nistico, Pino Daniele, Andy Sheppard, Charlie Mariano, Marilyn Mazur, Roberto Gatto, Bob Moses, and she has had a long-term musical relationship with Dewey Redman. Marcotulli has claimed the influence of musicians such as Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and John Coltrane. A highly skilled performer, she chooses to play in a style that derives as much from pop and folk as jazz. In addition to playing in jazz circles, Marcotulli has also composed music for the dance theatre and for films. By AllMusic
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rita-marcotulli-mn0000808191/biography

La Conversazione

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Sal Nistico - Empty Room

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:15
Size: 96,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:38)  1. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(9:04)  2. Lush Life
(9:10)  3. Inner Urge
(7:02)  4. Empty Room
(6:13)  5. I Should Care
(6:05)  6. The Hymn

Sal Nistico's explosive tenor solos with Woody Herman in the mid-'60s helped make that edition of Herman's Herd into a success. Originally an altoist, Nistico switched to tenor in 1956 and played with R&B bands for three years. He gigged with and made his recording debut in 1959-1960 with the Jazz Brothers, a band also including Chuck and Gap Mangione. But it was while with Herman in 1962-1965 that Nistico made history. In 1965, he spent five months with Count Basie. He returned to Basie in 1967 and to Herman on several occasions (1968-1970, 1971, 1981-1982), although without the impact of the first stint. Otherwise, the tenor freelanced throughout his career, playing with Don Ellis and Buddy Rich but mostly working with pick-up groups. Nistico recorded for several labels as a leader including Riverside, Red, and Beehive. Bio ~ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sal-nistico/id5056531#fullText
 

Personnel: Sal Nistico (tenor saxophone); Rita Marcotulli (piano); Roberto Gatto (drums).

Empty Room

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Cæcilie Norby - Sisters in Jazz

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:54
Size: 128,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:20)  1. Easy Money
(4:48)  2. Willow Weep for Me
(4:33)  3. Droppin' Things
(6:24)  4. Man from Mars
(3:59)  5. Naked in the Dark
(4:57)  6. First Conversation
(3:46)  7. Puzzled
(4:24)  8. Love Has Gone Away
(4:04)  9. Big Yellow Taxi
(5:54) 10. All at Once
(4:52) 11. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
(3:47) 12. Do I Move You

Cæcilie has gathered musical forces with her European "Sisters in Jazz", consisting of some of the most exciting, diverse and dynamic female musicians on the European Jazz scene. Together they've created her new album which celebrates women in jazz. http://caecilienorby.com/

Personnel: Cæcilie Norby / vocals & percussion; Rita Marcotulli / piano; Nicole Johänntgen / saxophone; Hildegunn Øiseth / trumpet; Lisa Wulff / bass; Dorota Piotrowska / drums; Marilyn Mazur / percussion (04, 06, 07 & 09)

Sisters in Jazz

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Rita Marcotulli, Andy Sheppard - On The Edge Of A Perfect Moment

Styles: Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:53
Size: 124,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:28)  1. Element
(8:03)  2. Les Mains D'Alice
(6:20)  3. Waves And Wind
(1:38)  4. Sound Of Stone I
(7:21)  5. Lullaby For Igor
(2:38)  6. Monkies Business
(4:04)  7. On The Edge Of A Perfect Moment
(5:37)  8. Us And Them
(5:50)  9. Carnival
(1:42) 10. Sound Of Stone II
(5:09) 11. Rabo De Nube

Italian pianist Marcotulli's duets with British saxophonist Sheppard have been discreet gems which, in recent years, have occasionally been seen glittering around the jazz scene, and this set is a more faithful representation of that intimacy than the pair's more eclectic album, Koine, released four years ago. Marcotulli has lived in Scandinavia, and the ghostly, wistful long-note jazz of Jan Garbarek, Arve Henriksen and others has had an impact here. Sheppard's tone control and ability to do more with less has been an eloquent feature of his mid-life music, but a startling edginess often bursts out of it, in fierce split-notes or rumbling, upward-spiralling runs against slowly swaying piano figures. Waves and Wind appoints the piano (in Marcotulli's Jarrett-like incarnation) and the saxophone to play each role respectively, and Sound of Stone is an abstract wriggle through soprano figures and skittering percussion. Lullaby for Igor is like a slow townships dance, while Pink Floyd's Us and Them is a reverie that imperceptibly gathers momentum, and Carnival a driving tango. The result is a real contemporary improvised dialogue, on very good original material. ~ John Fordham  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/may/11/jazz.shopping

Personnel:  Piano, Liner Notes – Rita Marcotulli;  Saxophone – Andy Sheppard

On The Edge Of A Perfect Moment

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Enrico Rava - Chanson

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:49
Size: 131,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:18)  1. Diva
(3:03)  2. Could Be a Tango
(1:51)  3. Bellflower
(2:22)  4. Balls
(4:26)  5. Autoritratto
(2:17)  6. Que Reste -T-Il De Nos Amours
(1:57)  7. Palami D'Amore Mariu'
(3:28)  8. What's New
(2:08)  9. My Crazy Valentine
(3:20) 10. Blue in Green
(4:40) 11. The Door Without the Door
(3:18) 12. Question
(5:14) 13. Giselle
(2:58) 14. Feuiles D'Automne
(3:31) 15. Parks
(7:49) 16. Spleen

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; he 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 100 records, 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 released 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. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/enrico-rava-mn0000182392/biography

Chanson

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