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Roberto Bonati: Vesper and Silence

Read "Vesper and Silence" reviewed by Maria Giovanna Barletta


Un luogo di raccoglimento, come una strada nascosta che conclude nel ritrovamento di se stessi. Una sorta di clausura feconda dove potersi ritrovare. Se potesse parlare di sé questo progetto direbbe, come Rilke «Sto, dentro al lavoro, come il nocciolo nel frutto». Questo lavoro in solo di Roberto Bonati è stato registrato dal vivo il 20 luglio 2017 in un luogo intriso di magia, l'Abbazia di Valserena a Parma, nota come “La Certosa di Parma" che ispirò Stendhal ...

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Robert Bonati Chironomic Orchestra: Whirling Leaves

Read "Whirling Leaves" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Whirling Leaves is a wonderful, intriguing album from Roberto Bonati, one of Europe's most interesting and creative composers. Bonati's previous large ensemble records have all essayed specific themes, from “The Scottish Play" from The Blanket of the Dark, a Study for Lady Macbeth ( MM Records, 2001) to the migratory nature and evolution of medieval music on Le Rêve du Jongleur (Parafroniere, 1999). With Whirling Leaves, however, there appears to be no such programme intent here. The music is its ...

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Roberto Bonati: Vesper and Silence

Read "Vesper and Silence" reviewed by John Kelman


Roberto Bonati may not be a name familiar to many jazz fans in North America, but at home in Italy and, increasingly, across Europe he has become a far more familiar face. Beyond inimitable talents as a double bassist, composer and conductor, Bonati has created a name both for himself and the northern Italian city of Parma for its far-reaching annual festival, ParmaFrontiere, first launched in 1996 and where he has remained Artistic Director ever since. ParmaFrontiere's name has gained ...

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Roberto Bonati - Bjergsted Jazz Ensemble: Nor Sea, Nor Land, Nor Salty Waves

Read "Nor Sea, Nor Land, Nor Salty Waves" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Lavoro orchestrale frutto di una lunga collaborazione con il Bjergsted Jazz Ensemble di Stavanger, Norvegia, questo progetto a firma di Roberto Bonati, che ne dirige l'esecuzione, prende spunto da Völuspà -The Prophecy of Völva (La profezia della veggente), che è parte dell'Edda Poetica, poema della mitologia nordica. L'opera si articola in otto quadri di lunghezza variabile e vede in scena un'orchestra di venti elementi. Anche se realizzata da un compositore italiano, l'opera mostra sonorità e atmosfere di tipo ...

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Roberto Bonati: Nor Sea, nor Land, nor Salty Waves

Read "Nor Sea, nor Land, nor Salty Waves" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Italian composer and bassist is a master of the musical journey. Rêve de Jongleur (2000) with the ParmaFrontiere Orchestra took the listener along the pilgrim routes of medieval Europe that carried the song of the troubadour, as well as the faithful and goods to trade. A Silvery Silence--fragments from Moby Dick (2006) followed the whalers of 19th century Nantucket on their cruel hunt for the creature that would prove Ahab's nemesis. Now with the Bjergstad Jazz Ensemble, Bonati explores the ...

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Profile

Roberto Bonati: Macbeth and the Whale

Read "Roberto Bonati: Macbeth and the Whale" reviewed by Duncan Heining


Italian bassist-composer Robert Bonati is one of the most ambitious and literate composers in contemporary jazz. Between 2000-2006, he released four ground-breaking extended works with the ParmaFrontiere Orchestra. While they attracted notice in Italy, they seemed to pass by the wider jazz audience in Europe, North America and the Far East. If at one level, the issue was one of a lack of exposure, at another, the twin curses of conservatism and localism in jazz no doubt applied. The history ...

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Live Review

Parma Jazz Frontiere 2015

Read "Parma Jazz Frontiere 2015" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Casa della Musica 27-29.11.2015 La penultima tranche di una rassegna più che mai “spezzatino" partita il 25 ottobre con gli Oregon e che ha visto poi alternarsi sui vari palchi un doppio omaggio a Giorgio Gaslini, una solo performance di Roberto Bonati, direttore artistico del festival (giunto, sarà il caso di sottolinearlo, alla ventesima edizione) e poi ancora Mark Turner, Susanne Abbuehl con Matthieu Michel, Django Bates, Gianluigi Trovesi e tanti altri ancora, orientava i ...


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