Giovanni Guidi - Ida Lupino '2016

Tracks list

Pianist Giovanni Guidi and trombonist Gianluca Petrella, key figures in what
some are hailing as a “golden age” of Italian jazz, found their
strong improvisational rapport inside Enrico Rava’s band and, eager for
more, they formed a duo. For this studio recording, they are joined by American
drummer Gerald Cleaver and French clarinetist Louis Sclavis on a set of music by
turns introspective and outgoing, showcasing lyrical free improvising and tunes
composed by Guidi and Petrella. The title track Ida Lupino serves double duty as
a salute to composer Carla Bley in her 80th year (Petrella once played in a big
band under Carla’s direction) and as a tribute to her husband, the late,
great Paul Bley, who popularized the tune and influenced so many improvisers,
not least Guidi himself. The album was recorded and mixed in three days, in
time-honoured ECM tradition.

“In this album we are searching for many different things. Improvised
music has to be very democratic. At the same time, one of its components should
be a sense of wonder. And the more you have a strong idea, at the concept level,
the more you know you must not impose it ... I find the music we played to be
above all very sincere. It is an exact photograph of where our individual
journeys have brought us and what we were able to create together ... when we
listen to what we’ve played, we’re left a little speechless,
because there are so many subtleties that transform the whole quality of the
music.
- Giovanni Guidi

Tracklist:
01. Giovanni Guidi - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (6:42)
02. Giovanni Guidi - Just Tell Me Who It Was (3:40)
03. Giovanni Guidi - Jeronimo (4:06)
04. Giovanni Guidi - Ida Lupino (4:28)
05. Giovanni Guidi - Per i morti di Reggio Emilia (7:19)
06. Giovanni Guidi - Gato! (9:37)
07. Giovanni Guidi - La Terra (6:03)
08. Giovanni Guidi - No More Calypso? (4:00)
09. Giovanni Guidi - Rouge Lust (6:12)
10. Giovanni Guidi - Things We Never Planned (5:20)
11. Giovanni Guidi - Fidel Slow (5:08)
12. Giovanni Guidi - Hard Walk (5:40)
13. Giovanni Guidi - Zweig (2:47)
14. Giovanni Guidi - The Gam Scorpions (6:47)

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