Showing posts with label Roby Perissin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roby Perissin. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Roby Perissin & The Latin Jazz Ensemble - Jazz With Latin Spice

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:59
Size: 135.0 MB
Styles: Latin jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[6:47] 1. Brussels In The Rain
[4:16] 2. If Ever I Would Leave You
[6:29] 3. Love For Sale
[6:48] 4. A Portrait Of Jeannie
[6:34] 5. No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)
[6:04] 6. Samba For Carmen
[4:08] 7. Emily
[5:13] 8. Mambo Inn
[4:45] 9. Speak Low
[7:51] 10. Summertime (Guajira)

When I started thinking of this recording I imagined myself as a chef ready to prepare an appetizing meal, made of several courses, matching classic and essential contemporary ingredients to others, unusual and refined. This new CD, in fact, besides representing as always my enthusiasm and love for life, as well as my passion for jazz and Latin music, includes a set of servings to offer to the listener, made with the intention of stimulating the musical palate, the ear and the imagination, using tasty notes, an adequate dose of rhythm and some Latin-American spices.

To achieve this objective I started by selecting tunes from the repertoire of songs very dear to me, some well-known, others less popular, drawing from the standards of jazz and of Latin-American music. An initial absorbing mix, an infallible cooking base, that allowed me to achieve a rich, tasty menu, diverse and solar, only attainable with the professional contribution and friendship of those who represent the “heart” of the Latin Jazz Ensemble, the three great musicians that with whom I have been working for years and that I thank again, inseparable companions of many live performances in Italy and abroad: Angelo Bifezzi (Piano), Diego Ruvidotti (Trumpet and Flugelhorn) and Paolo Traino (Drums). I believe the best way to celebrate their musical skills is to listen to them. During my life, and while living the active music scene of Milan, I have had the chance to meet and get to know and appreciate numerous talented musicians. Three of these, Pino Bifano (Guitar), Gino Carravieri (Drums) and Luca Dell’ Anna (Piano), have excited and moved me with their skills, talent, professionalism and fun attitude as musicians. I could not restrain from asking them to participate as “special guests” on this recording, adding sonority, taste and personality to my recipe, unattainable otherwise. My sincere thanks to them for their contribution. Equally important to the project has been the participation to this CD of the Tenor Sax, Rudi Manzoli, a jazz player with a refined touch to be enjoyed. I was honored to be able to have his performance and thank Rudi for his priceless collaboration.

To garnish the meal, I could not do without enriching some servings with the basis of my musical roots, Latin-American percussions, adding here and there their accents and vitality. An exercise that never ceases to amuse me and that I hope will elicit the same results from you, the listener. On this CD (and it is the third) we have mixed, blended and cooked to perfection the whole meal using the well-equipped recording studio, Soluzioni Musicali in Milan of Stefano Spina, whose skillful and patient courtesy is essential to every well-made serving. With the hope of having managed to satisfy even the more demanding palates, I want to thank those who will find the way and the moment to savor this endeavor. Good music, simple, spontaneous, intense, joyful ……. wishing to all the best of appetites. Love & music! ~Roby Perissin

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Roby Perissin & The Latin Jazz Ensemble - Latino Jazz Club

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:11
Size: 128.6 MB
Styles: Latin jazz, Bolero
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[6:26] 1. Ceora
[5:14] 2. Obsesion
[4:11] 3. Someday My Prince Will Come
[5:52] 4. Tres Palabras (Without You)
[4:51] 5. This Is Always
[5:11] 6. Recado Bossa Nova
[6:40] 7. Linda Chicana
[5:19] 8. My Foolish Heart
[6:40] 9. Claudia
[5:43] 10. Beautiful Love

This is the third CD with Latin Jazz Ensemble, another project that I am proud of. I am very pleased and amazed at having been able to continue the series and to have received the appreciation for the previous CD’s from many listeners around the world. Latin Jazz Ensemble is not simply a band but by now a small community of musicians, professionals, friends that have helped me over the years. First to create, then to keep together, this long lasting project with live gigs all over Italy and abroad in different forms, from duo to sextet. I had the pleasure of involving fine musicians from the Milan scene for these CD recordings and for live gigs, happy to contribute to this project with professionalism and enthusiasm. It might be, they tell me, because of my contagious enthusiasm, passion and energy (that some call “positive folly”) that I put into everything in life and even more into music, my lifetime passion, and in the last few years, my profession. This time I imagined and envision the listener, even the non-jazz aficionado, sipping a good drink with friends, in an imaginary “Latino Jazz Club” accompanied by these beautiful tunes, selected among the many I love and that encompass my music taste, in a few of them also played Latin-American Percussions, another one of my original long time passions.

Tunes like “Obsesion”, “Tres Palabras”, “Claudia” are part of Cuban love song history, “Ceora” (one of the most beautiful songs ever written, to my opinion), “Recado Bossa Nova” and our version of “My foolish heart” are definitely into the bossa nova stream, “Linda Chicana” and “This is Always” are my personal latin jazz homage to Cal Tjader, RIP, who had performed these tunes and has been described as “the man who revolutionized Latin Jazz”. One of my favourite artists ever. “Someday my prince will come” (an exception from the latin mood of the CD) and the closing song of the CD “Beautiful Love” bring positive thoughts and express my undisputed love for life that I have inside of me.

I must again thank my long time “partners in crime” Angelo Bifezzi, Diego Ruvidotti and Paolo Traino, the “core” of Latin Jazz Ensemble, great musicians and friends with whom we worked together for several years. As in the previous CD’s, new friends joined the “Latin Jazz Ensemble” family; I have the honor to have on this CD some more great musicians, both exquisite people: one is Adalberto Ferrari, one of the most complete and refined players I ran into ever, a real “maestro” of one of my favorite instruments, the clarinet. The second is a master of a relatively seldom used instrument in Jazz, but very interesting in the latin atmosphere, the accordion, another fantastic player, Nadio Marenco. With both of these players we added new beautiful sounds to Latin Jazz Ensemble. Last, but not least, I wanted to have for a second time as a guest in the CD, Gino Carravieri, an experienced, versatile drummer, great professional and by now also a friend with whom I have fun playing in “latin” contexts.

Have a drink, relax and unwind into my “Latino Jazz Club”; I hope to have achieved one more time what I wanted: simple Jazz and Latin music, well performed, intense, honest, joyful and peaceful at the same time, a bit like the person I feel I am. Love and Music. ~Roby Perissin

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