To work well, a
conversation
needs three requisites: a common language, the availability to listen,
an
interesting subject. The work that Antonio Cavicchi, Ares Tavolazzi and
Riccardo Biancoli are doing since some years – for the first time
collected in
this CD – is satisfying all of them. As good conversationalists
the musicians
use in fact a common language, of clear Jazz matrix; they weave the
voices valorizing the tones of the
individual pronunciations; they focus on a matter of absolute value:
Bill Evans’
universe.
The tracks are in fact of
the
same Evans (Turn Out The Star, Periscope,
Show Tipe Tune, Funkallero), or composed for him (Mother
Of Earl and How My Heart
Sings), or signed by musicians with a similar sensibility (Down From Antigua). With the addition of
two standards: I Fall In Love Too Easily
and How deep is the ocean.
However, also other
reasons
support the achievement of this good result.
First of all the research
of a
"sound" which is able to deliver a particular emotion; then the choice
of the Trio: not only this is the minimal structure allowing a building
to
stand up, but also the formula able to avoid the easy mirroring of
duality (me-you).
It obviously brings to a certain way of improvising, which is not
ending into the
practice of a radical experimentation but works as a space of
individual freedom
based on some common rules.
It is in this detailed
and
delicate balance that the value of this project is gathered, bringing a
happiness which is an echo of the name of the musician inspiring this
music.
Giorgio Rimondi.
