Jazz Articles about Gianluigi Trovesi

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto: Fugace

by Dan McClenaghan
October 7, 2003

The word “eclectic" gets batted around quite a bit to describe things that are, according to the New Mirriam-Webster Dictionary: “...made up of what seems best of varied sources."The word fits well with the music of the Gianluigi Trovesi Octet on Fugace. The Italian reedman/bandleader is possessed of a broad array of influences: New Orleans, European classical forms, Duke Ellington (on "African Trptych"), W.C. Handy, and new millennium electronics.The octet is an unusual formation of sounds, ...

Gianluigi Trovesi: Around Small Fairy Tales

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 1999

Around Small Fairy Tales is one of the most fascinating melanges I've encountered in a long while. Clarinetist Gianiluigi Trovesi (who also wields an alto sax on occasion) here fronts a 23-piece orchestra, the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia, under the direction of arranger Bruno Tommaso. There are quite a few violins and other strings included - there's even a harp. Most of what they play is written by Trovesi, although there are some other odds and ends ...