Thierry Maillard, Dominique Di Piazza, André Ceccarelli – Il canto delle montagne (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:08:36 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Piano trio album, lead the French pianist Thierry Maillard. The other members are bassist Dominique Di Piazza, who’s played with John McLaughlin in the past, and André Ceccarelli, a French drum legend, who’s played a lot of jazz but also with pop artists like Sting or Tina Turner. Therefore, very experienced personnel here, and it shows. They pay a lot of attention to each other, and therefore each of the 16 original tracks, are worth discovering. The album was essentially composed after the Bataclan terrorist attacks in Paris. However, there’s no terror in here, just beauty.
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Enrico Pieranunzi, André Ceccarelli, Diégo Imbert – Ménage à trois (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:02 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
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An acclaimed Italian jazz pianist, composer, and educator, Enrico Pieranunzi is known for his virtuosic, classical-influenced technique, nuanced sense of harmony, and elegantly restrained approach to modern post-bop jazz. Influenced heavily by Bill Evans, Pieranunzi emerged in the 1970s leading his own trio, and quickly established himself internationally as an in-demand sideman for such jazz giants as Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, and others. Along with performing, he is a dedicated teacher, having worked for many years as a full professor at the Conservatorio di Musica in Frosinone. Recognized as one of the foremost Italian jazz artists, he has garnered a handful of awards, including taking home the 1997 Django d’Or as Best European Jazz Musician and winning the 2014 German Echo Jazz Award as Best International Keyboard Artist.
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Enrico Pieranunzi, André Ceccarelli & Diego Imbert – Monsieur Claude (A Travel with Claude Debussy) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:51 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Enrico Pieranunzi is certainly the only pianist of the music scene who can claim a double filiation jazz and classical. In addition to André Ceccarelli and Diego Imbert, he published in 2016 his album “ménage à trois” which illustrates the coexistence of his wife (classical music) and his mistress (Jazz). After the international success of “ménage à trois”, it was therefore natural for Enrico Pieranunzi, surrounded by these same musical accomplices, to study the work of Claude Debussy on the occasion of the commemoration of the centenary of the disappearance. last on March 25th. This trip with Claude Debussy is disturbing by its beauty, its lyricism, its delicacy and the immense respect that Enrico Pieranunzi dedicates to the latter. In this regard Pieranunzi declares in an open letter to Claude Debussy contained in the libretto of the album: “The ultimate meaning of this letter lies simply in the desire to communicate to you the unconditional admiration that your art has always aroused in me and my faithful musicians friends, an admiration that the intimate frequentation of your compositions for the realization of this album has only strengthened “. Exquisitely illustrated by a work by the artist Emiliano Ponzi who cultivates the mystery and romance of this cult composer, “Monsieur Claude – [A Travel with Claude Debussy]” is certainly the most original jazz project dedicated to Claude Debussy. The marriage of jazz and classical.
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Enrico Pieranunzi, Thomas Fonnesbæk, André Ceccarelli – Something Tomorrow (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Fanatique du trio piano/basse/batterie, Enrico Pieranunzi inaugure ici une nouvelle association avec deux autres pointures du jazz européen : le batteur français André Ceccarelli et le contrebassiste danois Thomas Fonnesbæk. À 72 ans passés, le grand pianiste, qu’on qualifie souvent de meilleur héritier transalpin de Bill Evans, est comme boosté par la vigueur de cette rythmique inédite. La poésie de son jeu comme sa virtuosité jamais surchargée possèdent toujours cette élégance bien à lui. Pieranunzi est l’homme de la note juste, de la note soupesée, de la note nécessaire. Jamais de gras dans cette musique fluide qui, si elle aime flirter avec une certaine forme de romantisme, n’abuse jamais de son potentiel émotionnel, voire lacrymal. Ici, le pianiste romain épure même son jeu encore plus qu’à son habitude… Tout au long de Something Tomorrow, sorti sur l’illustre label danois Storyville Records, le swing, le vrai, n’est jamais relégué au second plan. On bat la mesure avec le pied, on se laisse happer par la complicité entre les trois hommes et on sourit à chaque prise de solo. Bref, la pochette de ce disque mériterait un bon vieux coup de tampon, « classe et classique », à l’image de l’impeccable version de This Is New de Kurt Weill et Ira Gershwin qui le referme.
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André Ceccarelli, Sylvain Beuf, Thomas Bramerie, Antonio Faraò – ASTA – Passers of Time (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 55:57 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Avec “Passers of Time”, ASTA démontre avec talent que plus le temps passe et plus la complicité qui unit et réunit les artistes de ce quartet a su faire son œuvre Plus de 20 ans après leur album “West Side Story”, désormais culte publié (BMG – 1997), André Ceccarelli a sonné le rappel de ses complices Sylvain Beuf, Thomas Bramerie et Antonio Farao pour enregistrer “Passers of Time”, le premier album de leur quartet, dénommé ASTA.
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