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Instrument: Composer / conductor
Roberto Bonati Trio: Bianco il vestito nel buio
by John Kelman
Spending considerable time as Artistic Director of Italy's creative ParmaFrontiere-- occurring in Parma each fall, a festival small in size but broad in scope--Roberto Bonati spends the rest of his time as a double bassist who, amongst other things, is one of GIanluigi Trovesi's top-calls, last heard with the Italian saxophonist/clarinetist's Ottetto on Fugace (ECM, 2003). Leading his own groups, more often than not Bonati writes for larger ensembles, specifically the ParmaFrontiere Orchestra that includes, amongst others, Siena-based pianist Stefano ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Bonati: A silvery silence
by AAJ Italy Staff
Roberto Bonati è uno di quei musicisti che si può definire “progettuale”, che centèllina cioè con cura i suoi dischi, documentando in particolare i lavori della ParmaFrontiere Orchestra nell’ambito del festival da lui stesso diretto. E fa piacere notare che ogni nuovo disco, se da un lato rappresenta un’ulteriore conferma del valore del contrabbassista parmense, dall’altro suscita sempre gustose sorprese sul piano della scrittura e dell’approccio tematico. Dopo l’omaggio al Giubileo, al poeta Attilio Bertolucci e a William Shakespeare, ecco ...
Continue ReadingRoberto Bonati & ParmaJazz Frontiere Festival Orchestra, Schola Gregoriana F: Paer Choir: Le Reve Du Jongleur
by Glenn Astarita
Italian Bassist/composer and conductor Roberto Bonati has performed with some of Europe’s finest modern jazz musicians along with Americans; saxophonist Dave Liebman, pianist Ritchie Bierach and many others. With his latest release, Le Reve Du Jongleur the artist conducts the “Parma Jazz Frontiere Festival Orchestra through a series of originals, and pieces composed during the Middle Ages. Bonati iterates his intentions in the liners: “The work, representing the Orchestra’s interpretation of the origins of Western music, was written with the ...
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