Claudio Pontiggia

Tino Tracanna, Corrado Guarino: Gesualdo

by David Adler
January 1, 2000

This is an Italian crew playing music of Italian pedigree, and playing it with an impeccably contemporary jazz flair. Five of the nine tracks are by Gesualdo da Venosa, a post- Renaissance composer whose dates are 1560--1613. The remaining four tracks were inspired by Gesualdo but composed by conductor/arranger Corrado Guarino, except for “Itene," by saxophonist Tino Tracanna. Guarino also arranged the Gesualdo pieces. Jazz has been borrowing from classical music for decades, but seldom has ...