Around Small Fairy Tales

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Around Small Fairy Tales
Studio album by Gianluigi Trovesi

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) Soul note

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Jazz , classical music

Title (number)

8th

running time

58:38

occupation
  • Bass : Marco Esposito
  • Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia
  • Further occupation: see article

production

Flavio Bonandrini

Studio (s)

Papa Giovanni XXIII Auditorium in Nembro ( Bergamo )

chronology
Round About A Midsummer's Dream
(1999) 		Around Small Fairy Tales In Cerca di Cibo
(2000)

Around Small Dairy Tales is a crossover album by Gianluigi Trovesi , which he recorded with the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia under the direction of Bruno Tommaso in January 1998 in the Papa Giovanni XXIII Auditorium in Nembro near Bergamo and that in the same year of Soul Note was released.

The album

Around Small Fairy Tales had performances at the Teatro Donizetti and at the Bergamo Jazz jazz festival before the record was made . Gianluigi Trovesi, who himself comes from the Bergamo area and has always had a soft spot for both early music and Italian folklore, worked for the concert work here with his jazz band and an 18-member chamber ensemble from his home town of Nembro, the Orchestra da Camera di Nembro Enea Salmeggia ; his daughter Stefania is a violinist and his son-in-law Stefano Montanari is a violin soloist in the orchestra. The music, with the exception of a few anonymous Italian pieces from the 14th and 16th centuries and a Kyrie by Guillaume Dufay , composed entirely by Trovesi, reflects his close relationship to the music of his Lombard homeland, according to Marcello Piras in the liner notes; all compositions refer to works from the 15th century ( frottola ) to the 18th century ( sonata e tre ). He conjures up “a kind of imaginary renaissance , not far removed from the world of the compositions of a John Lewis .” He refers to the old song “Sia maledetta L'aqua” from the 16th century, which has similar chord progressions as Lewis' composition “ Django ”.

The album begins with a composition from the 16th century, "Sia maledetta l'acqua", which emphasizes the classic mood of the album with its orchestration . Trovesi spans the music from Naples to that of New Orleans . In the following suite, “La maschere: Pierrot”, he creates “an impressive breadth in structure and moods” with screams reminiscent of Eric Dolphy and a medium to strong swelling tension in the ensemble play.

Gianluigi Trovesi (2006)

The dynamic dance “Dance for a King” shows Trovesi as a soloist in dialogue with the whole orchestra; He opens Brunos Tommaso's “La pazzia” on the bass clarinet before giving up on a classically influenced violin solo by Stefano Montanari; After the ensemble play, Emilio Soana performs a trumpet solo. The classic mood is also dominated by “C'era una strega, c'era una fata”, which is dominated by the string section and soloist Montanari; Trovesi can only be heard briefly here as a soloist.

In contrast, “Verano” is laid out in an open jazz / blues idiom; On the alto saxophone Trovesi borrows some of Coltrane's “Olé” and oriental lines, which are answered by vibraphonist Andrea Dulbecco . "Illimani" ties in with the classical musical traditions of Naples; The soloists are the flautist Ombretta Maffeis and the oboist Giuseppina Gerosa. Harpist Elena Corni's playing "is a bit reminiscent of a Disney soundtrack, but saxophonist Trovesi helps the orchestra to loosen these anchors". The album closes with the second suite, the ambitious “Ambulat hic armatus homo”, the longest piece at 13½ minutes, which takes up older compositions for L'homme armé and - similar to “La maschere” - comes up with different pitches and moods.

review

The magazine Down Beat drew Around Small Fairy Tales from 4-½ stars. The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton gave the album the highest rating in The Penguin Guide to Jazz ; it is “a lively and colorful music, touched by jazz, but ultimately just as rooted in the traditions that he associates with his birthplace Nembro. (...) heartbreakingly romantic in parts, but generally through Trovesi's own contributions with a hint of harshness underneath, this is entertaining, either as an escape soundtrack or as an intelligent and highly artisanal blend of matching ingredients. "

In his review of the album at Allmusic , Tom Schulte went into the close roots of Italian jazz musicians in the Italian musical tradition; this fusion is seldom so effective and so successful as in the chamber jazz concept of the present album. “Each jazz bar follows with an allusion to parts of Baroque or Renaissance music before returning to anything traditional . This effect is wonderful and magical. The prevailing vibraphone keeps this mood in a symphonic language. ”Although the album is a collection of separate pieces, Bruno Tommasi as musical director creates“ a conceptually self-contained work. ”With the cautious rhythm section and the predominant strings, the tales (apart from the rhythmic “Dance for the King”) an airy, free and light mood.

Robert Spencer called Small Fairy Tales "an ambitious and largely successful record."

Title of the album

  • Soul Note 121341-2
  1. Sia Maledetta L 'Acqua (anonymous, Naples 16th century) - 6:24
  2. Le Maschere: Pierrot - 6:23
    1. Pierrot (Prologo) - 1:49
    2. Puppet Theater - 2:42
    3. Pierrot (Epilogo) - 1:50
  3. Dance For A King - 7:22
  4. La Pazzia - (Bruno Tommaso / Mutti Valentina) - 7:12
  5. C'era Una Strega, C'era Un Fata - 4:52
  6. Verano - 5:32
  7. Illimani (Gianni Bergamelli) - 7:06
  8. Ambulat Hic Armatus Homo: - 13:29
    1. Introito - 2:07
    2. Cantus I - 4:29
    3. Armatus Homo - 1:17
    4. Cantus II - 1:40
    5. Triadi -: 40
    6. Kyrie ( dalla Messa L'homme armé by Guillaume Dufay) - 1:40
    7. L'Homme armé (anonymous, 14th century) - 1:35
  • All other compositions are by Gianluigi Trovesi.

Musician

Gianluigi Trovesi (alto saxophone, clarinet), Bruno Tommaso (arrangement, direction), Emilio Soana (trumpet), Ombretta Maffeis (flute), Giuseppina Gerosa (oboe), Stefano Montanari (violin soloist), Stefania Trovesi, Cesare Zanetti, Anita Anghelova , Ettore Begnis, Agata Borgato, Alessia De Filippo, Marina Valota (violin), Graziano Spinnato, Flavio Ghilardi (viola), Flavio Bombardieri, Giovanna Cividini (cello), Elena Corni (harp), Andrea Dulbecco (vibraphone), Marco Esposito ( Bass guitar), Roberto Bonati, Riccardo Crotti (double bass), Vittorio Marinoni (drums), Stefano Bertoli (percussion).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcus A. Woefle in Rondo
  2. ↑ Marcello Piras, Liner Notes 1998.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Review by Robert Spencer on All About Jazz
  4. ↑ Trovesi had already interpreted this suite in 1996 in his album Les Hommes Armés with an octet cast
  5. ↑ Jazz Italia
  6. ↑ Cook & Morton, 2001, p. 1467.
  7. ↑ In the original: "Every jazz bar follows with an allusion to Baroque or Renaissance forms before returning to something" trad. " The effect is wondrous and magical. The prevalence of vibraphone maintains this air of a symphonic spell. Symphonic it is, because while the album is a collection of separate pieces, conductor Bruno Tommaso scores the entire opus for conceptual continuity. A prevalence of strings and a beautifully understated participation from the jazz percussion (a knockdown exception is royal rhythms of "Dance for a King") give tales an airy, free, and lighthearted feel. “See Schulte, Allmusic
  8. ↑ Review by Tom Schulte at Allmusic