| Notes in the CD booklet:
A journey through the blues, from rock to free,
that explores the 12 tones of western musical notation. A way to
accentuate the multiplicity of aspects that an essential and
multicultural musical expression can assume. A project consisting of
rearranged jazz standards and original compositions written in tones
that have probably never been explored in the blues, in which a soprano
sax joins a modern Jazz Guitar
Trio. G.Premuda,
G.Grillini, A.Dalla
Nothing intellectual about this recording except the
initial desire to use ALL the 12 keys in the scale. It hits you
with an immediateness of colors and rhythmic ideas. Each blues
presents an original atmosphere that takes you out into the open.
Yes, these musicians know where they want to go, they take you
there on a tonic journey from the Rocky Mountains of E, to the
C/Db on the west Coleman side, to B, their hometown of Bologna. A
wonderful exploration to be enjoyed to the last plains.
Irene Robbins
While I listen to the latest musical effort of Premuda,
Grillini and Dalla, my thoughts wander and I let myself be taken away
by the sensations that each piece evokes. For me this represents a
sort of "Around the World in 12 Blues", in which Blues stands for
day and/or night. A Blues for every tone, the latter being a step,
a place to explore, to linger, but at the same time a starting
point. Yes, because every tonality is life, light, heat and each
imparts a different emotion. The Blues has always represented a
shore where the ocean of music shatters its emotional waves and
the musicians are attracted to it as good Ulysses to the Sirens.
Drawing vital sap from O.Coleman, P.Metheny, C.Mingus, J.Mc
Laughlin, the trio, with the deft intervention of Stefano Scippa's
soprano sax, offers a disenchanted and visceral contribution to
the discovery of new territory. If it's true that no ambitious project
is exempt from risks, that so must be a journey as taught us by
history, by life. This work offers a valid and fascinating tribute
to the implacable desire for exploration that manifests itself in
every single track and in every single musician.
Felice Del Gaudio
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SR0601- PREMUDA-GRILLINI-DALLA: "Blues Explorations"