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

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Sophia Tomelleri - These Things You Left Me

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:56
Size: 114,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:56) 1. Swallows
(5:56) 2. Fuori da novara
(6:08) 3. Drei viertel 5
(3:56) 4. Ballad for G
(4:00) 5. Jojo
(5:35) 6. Takeaways
(7:41) 7. These Things You Left Me
(6:33) 8. Sound Sleeper
(5:06) 9. Ginetta

An album that reconciles the traditional sonority of African-American music with modern and contemporary jazz. If you present these Things You Left Me, album d'esordio della sassophonista Sophia Tomelleri, winner of the prestigious Massimo Urbani Prize in 2020, which is released on June 16, 2021 for the label Emme Record label.

A high-energy project featuring some notable Italian jazz musicians such as Simone Daclon on piano, Alex Orciari on contrabass and Pasquale Fiore on drums. In this work I do perceive a strong interplay and a great cohesion between all the musicians who with enthusiasm have taken part in this new adventure. I find a tradition that comes from Bebop and Hard Bop and acquires a new line thanks to a brilliant language that moves through the past and present with great disinvolvement.Il quartetto, infatti, si muove tra brani caratterizzati gives a decisive groove, a ballad più rilassate, with the phrases of the sassofono always at the service of the group.

Not in case Sophia Tomelleri, leader and principal author of the new branch of this album, is part of some years in diverse musical programs that have allowed her to perform an intense concert activity in Italy and all the countries. The album begins with Swallows, the opening piece of this work that synthesizes the perfection of the band's language.

The sinuous solo of the sax is embedded with the decisive groove of the drums so that the piano can be played bright and energetic. From Novara is a carico branch of swing where the cohesion of the musicists emerges, among Drei Viertel is a cadenzata composition, vivace in which the sax diventa più dolce e il suono della band si ammorbidisce. Ballad For G e This Thing You Left Me sono invece due “ballad” lens, malinconiche that show us the most intimate part of a versatile and determinate formation. Jojo is another energetic piece, with a serrato drum rhythm characterized by brilliant sax phrases, dynamic and all this essential tempo.

Takeaways, forse one of the most interesting parts of the quartet, associates an essential and malign melodic line with an energetic, original and decisive battery. Sound Sleeper raps once again at the perfect point of union between tradition and modernity, with a decisive groove, an essential and granite phrase. The album if you join Ginetta can give you a swing in which you can feel the cohesion of a band that has shared diverse languages, expressing a strong personality. Translate By Google
https://www.emmerecordlabel.it/release/these-things-you-left-me/

These Things You Left Me

Monday, September 11, 2023

Massimo Faraò, Sophia Tomelleri - On the Trail

Styles: Bop
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:48
Size: 132,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:36) 1. Reflections
(4:34) 2. Long Ago and Far Away
(6:24) 3. Flamingo
(3:51) 4. U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group)
(4:59) 5. The More I See You
(3:30) 6. Sippin' at Bells
(4:21) 7. Nico's Dream
(3:53) 8. Stupendous
(3:52) 9. Ginetta
(5:04) 10. These Things You Left Me
(7:02) 11. My Melancholy Baby
(6:36) 12. On the Trail

«I’m not a fan of “pink quotas”. Least of all in music. Unfortunately, some people are still surprised to discover that women can play the saxophone, the double-bass or the drums. But it’s not like this everywhere. It is a question of culture, and we in Italy are still behind. I think the issue might be overcome with the support of education and school».

Sophia Tomelleri, 29 years old, is a Milanese saxophonist and composer, born in the trade (renowned saxophonist Paolo Tomelleri is her grandfather) who wants nothing to do with the gender controversies applied to jazz. And who can blame her?

After winning the prestigious Massimo Urbani award last year (this helped her record her debut “These Things You Left Me”, published by Emme Record Label and available on all online platforms) she is now among the most buzzworthy names of young Italian jazz. Tomelleri will play live on Thursday, October 28th at Milan’s Teatro Filodrammatici, during the first of three evenings of “JAZZMI FUTURE” at the head of an excellent quartet including Simone Daclon on piano, Alex Orciari on double bass and Pasquale Fiore on drums.

«Lately, when we talk about jazz, we don’t know what to think anymore. Too many things are trying to pass themselves off as jazz when they aren’t. While it’s true that jazz was born from a mixture of different cultures, it almost seems like it has lost its own identity», argues Sophia Tomelleri. What about new generations? «From what I’m hearing, some of my contemporaries appear to be too fixated on rational or conceptual music, with the result of neglecting harmony. I don’t want to appear too traditional, but I personally prefer a more acoustic kind of jazz, in the manner of saxophonist Mark Turner, who is one of my favorites». And speaking of favorites, Tomelleri places at the top of her preferred albums one of John Coltrane’s masterpieces, “My Favourite Things”, alongside “Something Gold, Something Blue” by trumpeter Tom Harrel. “Made in the U.S.A.” jazz clearly has a special place in Sophia’s heart.

Something she regrets about contemporary jazz is the clear lack of spaces it suffers from: «It’s not fair to say young people don’t like jazz. The main issue is a lack of spaces. Young people won’t go to theaters or venues where tickets are too expensive. And things become difficult even for us as musicians, if we don’t have anywhere to play. And I’m not just talking about clubs, sometimes it’s hard even to find a bar…».

Finally, we couldn’t resist asking Sophia about her encounter with the tenor sax. «It only happened three years ago», she explains. «I began with the piano when I was little, and at home we listened to a lot of jazz. Then I graduated from the conservatory in classical music and contralto sax. I feel very comfortable playing the tenor sax: it is the instrument I most like to use in my jazz improvisation. Lately I’ve been increasingly focusing on composing, and when I compose I use the piano. I am even thinking of deepening this aspect of my musical knowledge by signing up for a two-year course at Genoa’s conservatory of music».
https://ponderosa.it/en/sophia-tomelleri/

On the Trail

Friday, August 18, 2023

Sophia Tomelleri With Massimo Faraò - Sweet And Lovely

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:16
Size: 131,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:10) 1. Sweet And Lovely
(7:34) 2. I Couldn’t Live Without You
(4:30) 3. Barbados
(4:55) 4. How About You
(5:10) 5. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(8:02) 6. Reflections
(5:50) 7. I Want To Be Happy
(9:12) 8. Ask Me Now
(6:49) 9. Love For Sale

Sophia Tomelleri, born in 1992, graduated in 2013 in classical saxophone at the “G. Verdi” in Milan,then moved to Bavaria and obtained a three-year degree in Jazz saxophone at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater München” in Munich in 2018.

During this period, he obtained a scholarship to spend a year at the CMDL, a Parisian institute under the guidance of violinist Didier Lockwood. In Paris you have the opportunity to play with John Betsch, Emmanuel Bex, Sava Medan.

Based in Milan, she is a versatile musician and in demand in various formations and musical projects, ranging from the most traditional to contemporary Jazz. In 2020 she won first place for young Jazz soloists in two competitions: the "Luciano Zorzella" award and the "Massimo Urbani" award.
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Sweet And Lovely