Paul Bley, Tiziana Ghiglioni - Lyrics

Styles: Jazz
Year: 1991
Time: 52:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 120,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:38) 1. Beginning
(3:50) 2. Long Ago (And Far Away)
(3:05) 3. Close
(5:55) 4. Don't Blame Me
(4:10) 5. Clime
(5:53) 6. Yesterdays
(4:19) 7. Current
(5:09) 8. Lover Man
(4:56) 9. Soulful
(5:09) 10. The More I See You
(5:03) 11. Ending V

Recorded in 1991, this disc gorgeously assembles two of the most lyric "voices" on one CD, Canadian pianist Paul Bley and Italian chanteuse Tiziana Ghiglioni, performing solo and duet in a series of originals and standards. Of the 11 tunes, Bley composed six, all of which are piano solos, which serve as preludes or postludes --depending on your point of view -- to the duets on the standards by Kern, Gershwin, Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh, etc. Bley's compositions are all lyric songs, or songs without lyrics that follow a conventional form and are adorned by his usual lush pointillism. From "Beginning" to "Clime" to "Soulful," Bley digs very deep for the melodic invention only he can put across, stringing lines of arpeggios next to open mode chords and tying them together in a chromaticism of his own design. His triplets give way to staggered ninths and flatted fifths before working themselves out in a lyric line that is as complex as it is stunningly beautiful. As for the duets with Ghiglioni, she proves Bley's perfect foil -- especially on tunes like Gershwin and Kern's "Long Ago and Far Away." Ghiglioni allows the song to come through her voice; she has no need to "make it her own" by taming or twisting it to fit her oracular talent. She allows Bley to bring her the changes and she takes the melody elegantly, letting it come from her mouth as a song, not a vehicle for vocal stylishness. The same goes for "Lover Man," one of the finest versions ever recorded: As she allows the lyric to drip from her emotions and not vice versa, Bley picks it all up and polishes the tune, as the singing needs no assistance. The final duet, "The More I See You," is a revelation in symbiotic musicianship. Ghiglioni just barely anticipates Bley's line as he holds back a fraction of a second to change the shape of his chord voicing to highlight the depth and dimension in Ghiglioni's singing. The song becomes not a sentimental piece of jazz' nostalgic past, but a living, breathing hymn to longing. And you can't ask for more than that. ~Thom Jurek

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Lee Konitz,Tiziana Ghiglioni,Stefano Battaglia - So Many Stars

Styles: Vocal, Piano And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:19
Size: 184,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:39)  1. Lone Lee into Free Duet
(2:39)  2. Lover Man (Take 2)
(6:41)  3. So Many Stars (Take 1)
(6:30)  4. While We're Young (Take 1)
(5:18)  5. My Foolish Heart (Take 1)
(7:14)  6. My Funny Valentine (Take 1)
(4:33)  7. My Romance (Take 3)
(5:40)  8. O Cantador (Take 1)
(8:15)  9. My Funny Valentine (Take 2)
(5:55) 10. I'll Wind
(6:03) 11. Summertime (Take 2)
(6:04) 12. From This Moment On
(7:44) 13. It Never Entered My Mind
(3:00) 14. Blues for Red Mitchell (Section 2)

Lee Konitz's prolific recordings for Philology are wide ranging, with no two sessions alike, and this free form date with singer Tiziana Ghiglioni and pianist Stefano Battaglia is no exception. Alternating between alto and soprano saxes, he is playing at his usual high level throughout the date. Ghiglioni begins "Lover Man" unaccompanied with a fragile tone that grows more so as Konitz's light toned alto sax joins her. Battaglia's bittersweet arrangement of "My Foolish Heart" features Konitz's haunting soprano sax set the mood before Ghiglioni finally makes her entrance. The moody reharmonization of the master take of "My Funny Valentine" is yet another highlight, while the alternate is more abstract. The softness of Ghiglioni's vocals invite comparison to Meredith D'Ambrosio, so it will probably be difficult for this enjoyable singer to achieve widespread attention, but her work is worth exploring. Producer Paolo Piangiarelli proves to be a discographer's dream as he not only labels which take was used for each song but also indicates when a solo was substituted from an alternate take. ~ Ken Dryden https://www.allmusic.com/album/so-many-stars-mw0000232613

Personnel:  Lee Konitz - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Tiziana Ghiglioni - vocals; Stefano Battaglia - piano.

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Tiziana Ghiglioni - I'll be Around

Styles: Vocal 
Year: 1989
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:22
Size: 90,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:15)  1. Am I Blue
(5:14)  2. They Can't Take that Away from Me
(7:18)  3. You Don't Know what Love Is
(3:21)  4. All or Nothing at All
(5:16)  5. Glad to Be Unhappy
(2:48)  6. I'll Be Around
(2:22)  7. Yesterdays
(4:16)  8. Where Are You?
(0:20)  9. Darn that Dream
(2:08) 10. But not for Me

Tiziana Ghiglioni began his musical training in the seventies, attending the seminars of the pianist and composer Giorgio Gaslini and studying vocal technique with the soprano Gabriella Ravazzi. Among the first professional experience is the theater tour with the Shakespeare / Ellington show with the same Giorgio Gaslini and Giorgio Albertazzi .In the early eighties he began his career as a jazz singer and bandleader immediately obtaining the attention of audiences and critics thanks to the reviews of the journalist and jazz historian Arrigo Polillo who commented very positively both his first public performances is his first album ( "Lonely Woman" of 1981 ) engraved with certain emerging young among them Piero Leveratto and Luigi Bonafede .The reception of the first disc is such that in the second etching ( "Sounds of Love" of 1983 ) the singer is joined by internationally renowned musicians like Kenny Drew on piano and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass. In subsequent years Ghiglioni affirms its leading role in the Italian jazz working with some of the most famous national jazz musicians (including Luca Flores , Enrico Pieranunzi , Paolo Fresu , Franco D'Andrea , Gianluigi Trovesi and Enrico Rava ) and international ( including Chet Baker , Steve Lacy , Mal Waldron , Paul Bley and Lee Konitz ).

Despite being very appreciated for its executions of the traditional jazz repertoire, Ghiglioni shows a particular predilection for the free jazz and for contamination. She herself said that her passion for jazz was born after listening saxophonist Archie Shepp , one of the protagonists of the movement free. No coincidence that in his first incision is deeply involved with a piece by Ornette Coleman "Lonely Woman", which also became the title of the album. This interest in the avant-garde is witnessed, among others, from the album "SONB" of 1992 , which earned her second place in the ranking of the best albums of the magazine Musica Jazz and the nickname "First Lady" of Italian jazz (for by the then director of Pino Candini magazine). Among the most recent experiments you can cite the disc "Rotella Variations", signed together with the violinist Emanuele Parrini : an ambitious attempt to carry into music by the contemporary suggestions Mimmo Rotella .

In 2009 she was President of the Artistic Committee of the 3rd edition of the Italian Jazz Awards - Luca Flores. He currently resides between Genoa and Milan. He is professor of jazz singing teacher at the conservatory of Rovigo. On 23 and 24 June 2012 was the guest of honor at the end of essay academy year cultural musician "La Fenice" in Gioia del Colle. He sang with the children of the school who have also received from her a certificate of "Master Class". Translate by Google  https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiziana_Ghiglioni

Personnel: Vocals – Tiziana Ghiglioni; Piano – Mal Waldron; Trumpet – Enrico Rava

I'll be Around

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