Luca Aquino

Luca Aquino – OverDOORS (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:19 minutes | 613 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bonsaï Music /Tuk Music

Tributes are a kind of fashion in jazz and today it’s cool to declare oneself a rockstar. That’s why I pulled myself back from dedicating an album to The Doors, my absolute favorite band, for such a long time. Then my love to Jim Morrison and his mates dominated. OverDOORS, despite facing some troubles at the beginning, has been growing strongly. The first doubt was wich songs to choose: I wish I could revisit them all. Under my fingers I had another doubt, due to the different possibilities of how to reinterpret the historical Californian band. For one month, only one question was on my mind: should I choose a cover approach or a free musical revision? I actually took both, wearing Converse, feeling free to analyse and fit back [Light My Fire], singing and whispering melodies both ethereal and eternal [like Blue Sunday and Yes, The River Knows]. I am curious to see my friends’ reaction to the groove Waiting For The Sun; Carlo, Piero and all others, whom I dreamt with, sitting on a bench, flying on the notes of LA Woman. –Luca

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Luca Aquino – Italian Songbook (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:55 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ACT Music

Sometimes fate steps in and changes the course of a life. That’s what happened to Luca Aquino: he was about to go on a “Jazz-Bike-Tour” in the summer of 2017. He’d packed his trumpet and was ready to set off…but then he couldn’t. He had contracted Bell’s palsy, a sudden and acute facial nerve paralysis which put paid to his idea of cycling all the way from his home town of Benevento to Oslo, playing concerts en route. He couldn’t touch the trumpet for more than a year, then had to re-learn it more or less from scratch. The good news is that he has successfully put his musical career back on track.

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Luca Aquino – aQustico (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 44:31 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tuk Music

Luca Aquino is an Italian trumpet player and composer. He is known for his unique trumpet sound and for the use of natural reverberation in his music compositions. ‘Aqustico’ is more than an album, this magnificent meeting of minds and styles, performed by virtuosi musicians, also represents a project.

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