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Nuevo Tango Ensamble
Music is melody!
About Me
GIANNI IORIO – bandoneón
PASQUALE STAFANO – piano
PIERLUIGI BALDUCCI – bass
The NUEVO TANGO ENSAMBLE was born in 1999 starting from a deep
admiration for music from Argentina. The trio has established its own
identity well recognizable, into which the lesson of classical music,
tango nuevo, an Italian melodic sensibility and a conception of
authentic jazz performance. The music of the great composer Astor
Piazzolla, who had grandparents from Puglia as the three musicians,
was therefore assimilated and converted into a new synthesis between
the classical music, tango nuevo and jazz that the three musicians
have always loved, between the discipline of written and structured
music the recognizable Italian character of their melodies and
improvisation that makes their every concert a unique event.
Nuevo Tango Ensamble performed all over the world in prestigious
Theaters, Festivals and Jazz Clubs like: Paesiello in Lecce, Abeliano
in Bari, Giordano and Teatro del Fuoco in Foggia, Eliseo in Rome,
Regio in Turin, Lauro Rossi in Macerata, Nymphenburg Castle in
Munchen, Duc Des Lombardes in Paris, La Palma and Alexander Platz in
Rome, Ferrara Jazz Club, Folk Club in Turin, Maison Musique in Rivoli
Chorus in Lausanne, La Spirale in Friburg, Porgy & Bess in Vienna,
Treibhaus in Innsbruk, BP Club in Zagreb, Panic Jazz Club in
Marostica, Jazzhaus in Freiburg, Bird’s Eye in Basel, New Theatre in
Guebwiller and many others, Dusseldorfer Jazz Rally in Dusseldorf,
Warsaw Jazz Festival, Beat Onto Jazz in Bitonto , Tam Jazz in Pedaso,
Bolzano Jazz & Other, Bucarest Music Festival, Fivizzano
International Music World Festival, Senigallia Tango Festival,
Macerata Jazz Festival, Groznjian Jazz Festival, Cracow Jazz Festival
in Poland, Gipfel du Jazz in Freiburg, a tour of concerts in Gulf
Jazz Festival in Dubai, Kuwait City and Manama in Bahrain, Emmas
Festival, Villa Celimontana Music Festival in Rome, Musica sulle
Bocche in Santa Teresa di Gallura, Akkordeon Music Festival in Wien,
Ortaccio Jazz Festival, Bratislava Music, and many others.
The trio collaborates also with international well-known musicians as
Argentinian saxophone player Javier Girotto, Italian clarinet player
Gabriele Mirabassi, Argentinian bandoneon player Gustavo Toker, the
great jazz musician as Daniel Humair.
In 2002 was released the first CD Astor's Mood” by the classical
label Realsound.
In July 2005 was released the second album: A night in Vienna for
Astor Piazzolla. It’s a live CD recorded in Porgy & Bess in Vienna.
The album was produced by the prestigious Italian jazz label
Philology Jazz Records.
In 2008 German label Jazzhaus Records released the album Tango
Mediterraneo. For CD
they worked with Gabriele Mirabassi who has one of the best clarinet
player of the world.
The album will include primary self-made compositions of
Pasquale Stafano and Gianni Iorio
besides two Astor Piazzolla interpretations.
On 27th of May 2011 was released new album D'impulso by
label Jazzhaus Records. Javier
Girotto is the guest of this album.
Every album had a lot of great and positive feedback by the most
important magazines all over the world.
In 2012 the band was invited as music guest in one of the most famous
TV Show in Italy on RAI 2 National TV called “I fatti vostri” for six
time and performed Italian songs with particular music arrangements.
In the same year the trio, invited as guest of Radio Music Program on
RAI Radio 3 Fahrenheit, performed a live radio concert with interview.
The trio did a lot of radio and video interview for Radio RAI 1, RAI
2, Radio Capital, Radio Città Futura, Radio Warsaw, Radio Cracow,
Radio Bratislava, Radio RTL 102.5 and VERO TV.
SOME REVIEWS
Patrick Dalmace (France) – JAZZHOT
“[…] Tous trois sont les auteurs de huit des compositions (titres en
italien pour la plupart car il est inutile de dissimuler ses
origines). Les rythmes ne
sont pas seulement le tango (« d’Impulso ») mais plus largement
ceux d’Argentine. On trouve une magnifique milonga, « Milonga para
la luna », pour laquelle le trio a invité le saxophoniste Javier
Girotto, né à
Cordoba mais venu en Italie au bout d’un quart de siècle d’existence
(Passage par
Berklee, participation en France à l’O.N.J….). On écoute aussi Girotto
sur « Il Fiume in piena », sur un fond de chacarera tout comme «
Angelica ». Le
rythme candombe, avec ses réminiscences afro, est aussi présent.
Enfin la lente milonga « Le lanterne di Phuket » est, comme tous
ces rythmes,
délicatement mixée de classique, jazz, de diverses influences[…]”
Vittorio Lo Conte (Italy) – ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“[…]Il loro percorso mischia tango nuevo e jazz, la musica di
Buenos Aires, così come l'ha interpretata Piazzolla, ed il
jazz americano, grazie al
pianismo sensibile di Pasquale Stafano, a suo agio in entrambi gli
stili. I suoi dialoghi con il bandoneon di Gianni Iorio sono pervarsi
di malinconia,
ma anche di uno swing sottile, di qualcosa che proviene dal mondo
dell'improvvisazione e che arricchisce la musica di note speziate. Un
impulso che
proviene, a ben guardare, proprio da Piazzolla, che volentieri aveva
accettato i confronti con Gerry Mulligan e Gary Burton.[…]”
Roberta Zlokower (USA)
“This CD is one of the most gorgeous collections of recorded and live
music I have ever heard. The tango genre is challenging to replicate,
and only
true professionals, well versed in this genre, should attempt
such compositions. Pasquale Stafano and Gianni Iorio have
composed seven new
works, all on this album, adding two works by the great tango
genius, Astor Piazzolla. This collection of music is not just for
occasional listening,
even twice or three times. This collection of music is for repeated
listening, as it grabs the imagination and transports the listener to
Buenos Aires
tango halls […]”
Nestor Minsk (BIELORUSSIA)
[…]Проект Nuevo Tango
Ensamble оказался очень успешным. Трио весьма востребовано,
гастролирует по всему миру,издает альбомы. Представляемый сегодня аль
бом «Средиземноморское танго» - это уже третий диск группы. Издан
оннемецким лейблом Jazzhaus
Records из Фрайбурга. Для записи этого альбома итальянские музыканты
привлекли своегоземляка Габриэле Мирабасси, джазового кларне
тиста с европейским именем[…]
Ollie (JAZZRYTMIT - FINLAND)
[…] Koko äänitteen musiikki on hyvinkin vetävää. Aikanaan tuli rahan
takia pakkopullana soitettua tango viejoa, johon verrattuna nuevossa
on se
ero, ettei sitä ainakaan amatööri pysty tanssimaan. Kyllä
hotelliravintola Männyn hienostuneet asiakkaat olisivat
venäyttäneet niveliä
yrittäessään[...]
Jonio González – (CUADERNOS DE JAZZ – Spain)
De los varios y apreciables grupos europeos (de los daneses Tango
Orkestret a los suecos de la New Tango Orquesta pasando por el trío
de Eric
Chapelle entre otros) que practican esa reinterpretación más o menos
circular de la música de Piazzolla llamada nuevo tango, los
italianos de
Nuevo Tango Ensamble destacan por varios motivos. En primer lugar
porque cuentan con el que tal vez sea el mejor bandoneonista
nacido en
Europa, Gianni Iorio, emotivamente al menos por encima de colegas
como Per Arne Glorivgen o William Sabatier. En segundo lugar,
porque su
conocimiento y dominio de la tradición tanguera es superior a la
media y les permite, […]
Neri Pollastri (ALL ABOUT JAZZ – ITALY)
“[…]La novità è anche uno dei tratti caratteristici del CD,
perché il clima tanguero è tangibilmente risituato in
un'atmosfera nostrana, fatta di
melodie non meno struggenti di quelle argentine, e tuttavia diversa,
forse più aperta, meno drammatica e malinconica, nella quale le frasi
narrative
si alternano ai ritmi del tango con un fascino e una dolcezza di
particolare originalità. Ne sono esempio Il canto del mare - che
conserva numerosi
stilemi classici del tango argentino, ma ne distende il
respiro narrativo - e Terre lontane - ancor più melodica,
ma caratterizzata ancora
dall'incedere tipico del tango […] Un bel gruppo che merita
complimenti, così come meriterebbe ascoltarlo dal vivo, magari - visto
che si tratta di un
gruppo nostrano - senza dover necessariamente andare fino al Porgy &
Bess di Vienna...
Piotr IWIKI (POLAND)
“[...]To, ze Wloch wie o muzyce Piazzolli wszystko, slychac bylo w
kazdej frazie. Nie gorzej wypadl wirtuoz fortepianu - jak sie okazalo
- Pasquale
Stafano. Solidny w tangach, ale i wyluzowany w improwizacjach
podszytych jazzem, pokazal, ze mozna pogodzic nuevo tango ze
swingowaniem. Gdy
gral wstep do Adios Nonino, udowodnil, ze ròwnie bliski jest mu
Piazzolla jak Thelonious Monk i Chick Corea. Dopelniajacy trio
kontrabasista
skupial sie bardziej na budowaniu solidnego fundamentu niz
technicznych popisach. Ot, mistrz drugiego p