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Modern Art Trio

Active since: 1968

"The Modern Art Trio was officially born in Rome between March and April 1968 on the initiative of Franco Tonani and Franco D'Andrea. The idea was to set up a trio that would give a rational order to free music and the sound galaxy that gravitated around it. It was like a leap into darkness without a net, an exploration of unknown lands.

The distinctive contribution of the Modern Art Trio to jazz experimentation is the use of seriality. In the Modern Art Trio project there was no detachment from jazz, but at most some form of contamination: African-American music was the starting point of even daring experiments (the seriality and the system of intervallic areas) but who sought new paths without leaving the field of jazz. The melody of the tunes, their intervallic shape is what provides structure to the music of the MAT. The trio integrates and interacts with a tune close to perfection, thanks to many hours of daily practice and a continuous exchange of ideas. Even in his short life, Il Modern Art Trio will be for Franco D'Andrea the first and significant musical project. It is the place, or rather the dimension, where D'Andrea transports his experiments to put the intervallic system at the very base of the compositions. The pianist’s approach is polymodal and serial, application of his studies on Schoenberg and Webern. Improvisation dominates in the general economy of MAT music, subject however to a strict discipline, to design calculations that precede the musical action and direct it. Moder Art Trio is an important album in the history of Italian and European jazz. For the first time serial music and jazz know a successful synthesis, with the rigor of seriality on one side, on the other the freedom and the irruence of free."

Franco D'Andrea, Franco Tonani, Bruno Tommaso.: Modern Art Trio

by Neil Duggan
February 23, 2024

The line-up of the Modern Art Trio was finalised in 1969 when bassist Bruno Tommaso joined pianist Franco DAndrea and drummer Franco Tonani. They stayed together until 1972, releasing one album, Modern Art Trio (Vedette Records, 1970). The album became a landmark recording. It was a best seller in Italy and influential throughout Europe. Following the ...

Franco D'Andrea, Franco Tonani, Bruno Tommaso: Modern Art Trio

by Giuseppe Segala
January 8, 2024

Fin dal 1971, anno di pubblicazione dell'unico disco che ne documenta l'attività, Modern Art Trio ha fatto parlare tanto di sé. E quel lavoro non cessa di parlare a sua volta all'ascoltatore, riattizzando da punti di vista sempre nuovi l'originaria passione. D'altra parte, è lo stesso Franco D'Andrea a sottolineare l'importanza del Modern Art Trio: “Da ...

Modern Art Trio

Label: GleAM Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: URW; Frammento; Un Posto all'Ombra; It Ain't Necessarily So; Echi; Beatwitz.

Franco D'Andrea: sfumature di una vita dedicata al jazz

by Paolo Marra
March 15, 2021

Abbiamo intervistato in occasione dei suoi ottant'anni, compiuti lo scorso 8 marzo, il pianista e compositore Franco D'Andrea. Ne è scaturito il racconto di un uomo dedito con inesauribile curiosità, studio e talento alla poetica del jazz. Come afferma lui stesso-"Il jazz mi ha dato una direzione, ha reso la mia vita coerente con un obiettivo ...

Franco D'Andrea: Il pianoforte come sintesi di colori

by Paolo Marra
January 23, 2020

Franco D'Andrea non è certo un musicista abituato a guardarsi indietro nonostante ormai da decenni rappresenti l'eccellenza del jazz italiano con più di duecento dischi incisi e svariati premi vinti. Il segreto di questa longevità artistica è da ritrovare nella sua capacità di aggiornare continuamente il suo lessico pianistico composto da riferimenti antropologici alla musica africana ...