Jazz Articles about Gianluigi Trovesi

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Gianluigi Trovesi All'Opera: Profumo Di Violetta

by John Kelman
January 7, 2009

Since joining up with ECM as a member of Italian Instabile Orchestra, responsible for 1995's Skies of Europe, reedman Gianluigi Trovesi has created a small but diverse body of work that has stretched the boundaries of composition and improvisation to include sources ranging from William C. Handy to Kurt Weill. Whether in duet with accordionist Gianni Coscia, his curiously configured Ottetto or the chamber trio responsible for the sublime Vaghissimo Ritratto (2007), a defining characteristic has been a fearless irreverence ...

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Paolo Damiani: Al tempo che farà

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2008

Ormai succede raramente, viviamo in un mondo di ascolti distratti, ma capita qualche volta di ascoltare dischi che già dalle prime note ti colpiscono e ti fanno capire subito che il lavoro del musicista è veramente riuscito. E allora, il tempo comincia a fermarsi e ti soffermi a pensare. Ed è proprio questo il tema conduttore del nuovo CD di Paolo Damiani, intitolato “Al tempo che farà”, uscito da poco per l’Egea. Un augurio per i cambiamenti? Sicuramente un augurio ...

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Gianluigi Trovesi: Vaghissimo Ritratto

by Budd Kopman
July 24, 2007

Gianluigi Trovesi's music features a mixture of styles that is the result of exposure to and reverence of European music, specifically Italian (both popular and classical) and American jazz. Fugace (ECM, 2003) stressed the jazz aspect, particularly its blues origins, as well as its collision with and effect on European music, specifically Italian popular music. Vaghissimo Ritratto, on the other hand, references much European music that is quite older (Monteverdi, Josquin Desprez, Palestrina, Orlando di Lasso and ...

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Gianluigi Trovesi - Umberto Petrin - Fulvio Maras: Vaghissimo Ritratto

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 16, 2007

Lavoro tipicamente “trovesiano”, Vaghissimo ritratto ci ripropone le tematiche del Maestro bergamasco all’interno di un contesto maggiormente cameristico rispetto a quello del suo ottetto e più sperimentale di quello del duo con Gianni Coscia. Il “ritratto” a cui si riferisce il titolo è (sebbene solo in certa misura) quello composto sulla figura di Alfredo Piatti, musicista italiano dell’800 oggi un po’ trascurato. A lui sono dedicati infatti i cinque “Ritratto di A.P.”, tre dei quali vengono costruiti su citazioni e ...

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Gianluigi Trovesi: Vaghissimo Ritratto

by John Kelman
April 21, 2007

If “spontaneous composition," rather than the term “free improvisation," suggests the ability to collectively grab apparent form from the ether, then Italian woodwind multi-instrumentalist Gianluigi Trovesi's Vaghissimo Ritratto deserves to be cited as one of its clearest examples. Teamed with pianist Umberto Petrin, with whom Trovesi has worked in the Italian Instabile Orchestra, and percussionist Fulvio Maras, a member of Trovesi's octet responsible for the superb Fugace (ECM, 2003), this is intimate chamber improvisation of the highest order.

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Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia: Round About Weill

by Chris May
June 24, 2005

In his liner notes to this album, philosopher/novelist Umberto Eco talks about Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia revisiting Kurt Weill “in a musical drowse dominated by an almost oneiric principle of contamination." As you do. In plain English, Eco is suggesting that Trovesi and Coscia have approached the music as if in an eclectic, stream of subconsciousness daydream, interweaving Weill's compositions with their own and those of other simpatico composers. And he's spot on. Trovesi and Coscia appear to be ...

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Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: Round About Weill

by John Kelman
April 18, 2005

It's been five years since woodwind multi-instrumentalist Gianluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia made their ECM debut with In Cerca de Cibo. For their third duo album, Round About Weill, Trovesi- -once again sticking with clarinet--and Coscia step into a more singular concept. Whereas In Cerca de Cibo drew from sources as diverse as Italian folk music and pianist John Lewis, the latest effort celebrates the music of the often misunderstood 20th Century composer Kurt Weill. That ...