Roberto Ottaviano - Resonance & Rhapsodies (Extended Love & Eternal Love) Disc 1, Disc 2

Album: Resonance & Rhapsodies (Extended Love & Eternal Love)Disc 1
Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:24
Size: 112,1 MB
Art: Front

( 9:15) 1. Promise
( 5:34) 2. Revelation
( 4:35) 3. Homo Sum
(11:17) 4. Dedalus
( 6:52) 5. Omumua
( 6:18) 6. Resonance
( 4:29) 7. Ad Astra

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Album: Resonance & Rhapsodies (Extended Love & Eternal Love)Disc 2
Time: 50:21
Size: 116,9 MB

(6:35) 1. Adelante
(5:36) 2. Ergonomic
(4:58) 3. Ijo Ki Mba Jo
(6:07) 4. Monkonious
(6:35) 5. Villaraspa
(6:17) 6. To the Masters
(6:51) 7. China Syndrome
(4:30) 8. Violeta
(2:49) 9. Mad for Misha

The new double album by Roberto Ottaviano, Resonance & Rhapsodies, is a challenge addressed to the entire world of Italian jazz (and beyond), which has long been based on a very fashionable musical practice, sick with stereotypes and assorted niceties. Continuing on the path already traced in his previous records, Sideralis and Eternal Love, the saxophonist from Bari continues to search for a meaning for his making music in a difficult and intriguing quadrature of rigor and passion. Recovering the desire for gambling from the season of utopias of the Sixties and Seventies (John Coltrane, Steve Lacy, Keith Tippett and the English scene) but immersing it in a burning and disenchanted topicality together with his splendid companions in adventure, Octavian gives shape to a necessary music, which gives and at the same time demands attention and "presence" from its listeners. Not a pastime, in short, but something to be absorbed perhaps in headphones, taking all the time necessary, rediscovering a civilization of listening today shattered between streaming pills, mobile phones and social networks. Published by the Dodicilune label, for which Ottaviano has recorded since 2008, Resonance & Rhapsodies is a double album entrusted half to the Eternal Love quintet and half to the Extended Love octet. In both at the top there are Ottaviano's saxophones and Marco Colonna's clarinets, which integrate perfectly. The piano flashes between Ellington and Taylor of the faithful Alexander Hawkins and the acid tones of Giorgio Pacorig's fender rhodes, the basses of Giovanni Maier and Danilo Gallo, the drums of Zeno De Rossi and Hamid Drake shine. An hour and forty of original music in which to get lost and find yourself, between the intense chamber music of the octet and the fire of the quintet.
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Personnel: Soprano Saxophone – Roberto Ottaviano; Clarinet – Marco Colonna; Double Bass – Giovanni Maier; Double Bass, Acoustic Bass – Danilo Gallo; Drums – Hamid Drake, Zeno De Rossi; Piano – Alexander Hawkins, Giorgio Pacorig

Resonance & Rhapsodies (Extended Love & Eternal Love)

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Roberto Ottaviano QuarkTet - Sideralis

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:45
Size: 106,6 MB
Art: Front

(7:41) 1. Vulpecula
(5:09) 2. Berenice's Code
(4:47) 3. Planet Nichols
(3:43) 4. Planet John Lee Hooker
(1:50) 5. Ellingtonia
(2:02) 6. Afro Asteroids Game
(4:20) 7. On the Harmonica Wake
(3:26) 8. Holy Gravity
(4:34) 9. Centaurus
(8:10) 10. Sideralis

For his most recent work, just published, Roberto Ottaviano intended to make a tribute to John Coltrane on the fiftieth anniversary of his death. In reality, the disc is much more than a simple tribute to the great artist, who has always been one of the main points of reference for Ottaviano; the ten original compositions that compose it, all signed by the saxophonist from Bari, represent the ideal synthesis of the musical exploration work carried out over the years by its author. Hence the connection with the Coltrane of the last period, that of the sound research aimed at a cosmic absolute that we also find in this work.

Accompanied by very valid and renowned musicians such as the pianist Alexander Hawkins, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Gerry Hemingway , Octavian takes us on a journey through the galaxy of contemporary jazz, also recalling some of his roots such as John Lee Hooker , Herbie Nichols and Duke Ellingtoncited directly in the titles of as many pieces, in a continuous exploration based on written forms that leave much room for free improvisation. The long opening piece, "Vulpecula," is already an example of this approach, with its thematic fragments that alternate with freely improvised phases with a broken rhythm; but the culmination of abstraction is reached in the final "Sideralis," eight minutes of indescribable sound immersion in cosmic space. Between the two extremes of the CD we find shorter and more structured pieces that highlight the perfect cohesion of the performers called to a constant work together, in which even the rare individual solos are part of a larger collective moment. The CD certainly represents a challenging and courageous listening, but it pays off with a sound journey that leads us through a very intense and stimulating musical experience.~ Mario Calvitti https://www.allaboutjazz.com/sideralis-roberto-ottaviano-dodicilune-records-review-by-mario-calvitti.php

Personnel: Roberto Ottaviano: saxophones; Alexander Hawkins: plan; Michael Formanek: upright bass; Gerry Hemingway: drums.

Sideralis

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