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Amaranto

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Label: AlphaMusic
Released: 2024
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Tracks

Prologo; Amaranto; Vito raccontami; Empty Hallways; Better Days; Two colours; Pictures; Your Silence; Rimas Mood; Nothing by Chance; Our Journey; So Simple; Epilogo.

Personnel

Francesco Cataldo

piano

Album Description

Francesco Cataldo, among the most highly regarded Italian jazz musicians of his generation, has long established a reputation as a triple-threat talent, celebrated for his skills as guitarist, composer and arranger. Expect Cataldo to advance to quadruple-threat status soon, as he adds solo piano to his list of achievements with the release of his upcoming third recording, “Amaranto”.

On “Amaranto”, Cataldo switches his focus from six strings to 88 keys, and from ensemble work featuring some of the brightest lights on the current jazz scene (including Marc Copland, Scott Colley, Adam Nussbaum, Salvatore Bonafede, David Binney and Clarence Penn) to a solo venture. The internationally acclaimed veteran guitarist played piano on the track “Two Ways,” on “Giulia”, the second of his two well- reviewed albums as a leader (the first is “Spaces”). But “For years now my musical research has focused on the piano, an instrument that allows me full expression.”

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