Stefano Bollani, Hamilton de Holanda – O Que Será (2013) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Stefano Bollani, Hamilton de Holanda – O Que Será (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 54:03 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Italy’s creative piano virtuoso Stefano Bollani meets Hamilton de Holanda, Brazil’s peerless master of the bandolim, the 10-string mandolin. O que será is a summery celebration of the joy of music-making, radiating an irresistible enthusiasm, and raising the bar for trans-idiomatic instrumental interaction. Bollani, acknowledged as one of the most prodigiously-gifted soloists of jazz, is matched every step of the way here by de Holanda, and the exchanges between the musicians are frequently breathtaking. Repertoire draws upon the rich heritage of South American music – including Jobim, Piazzolla, Chico Buarque, Baden Powell, Ernesto Nazareth and more, plus original compositions by the protagonists. O que será was recorded live in Antwerp in last August before an audibly-delighted audience at the Jazz Middelheim Festival.

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Stefano Bollani – Stone in the water (2009) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stefano Bollani – Stone in the water (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:44 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

“Stone in the Water” features the brilliant Italian pianist’s “Danish trio”, a group that has been honing its improvisational understanding for six years already. Bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund (both making ECM debuts) draw on a still longer association, having collaborated closely for more than 15 years. The three players move, with immense subtlety, through a fascinating programme that includes new pieces by Bollani and Bodilsen, plus ballads by Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Poulenc’s “Improvisation 13 en mineur”, bringing fresh colours to the piano trio genre.

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Stefano Bollani – Que Bom (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Stefano Bollani – Que Bom (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:06 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alobar

Italian piano genius Stefano Bollani’s new Brazilian album QUE BOM building on the success of his successful album CARIOCA (2008), which sold over 70’000 copies. QUE BOM primarily consists of Bollani’s own original tunes and distinctive melodies strongly influenced and informed by Brazilian music culture, which Bollani has always cherished since the very beginning of his rich, multifaceted crackerjack music making and dexterous playing. In QUE BOM – a genuine hymn to life marked by sparkling liveliness and (contagious) joy – Bollani is joined by the same outstanding rhythm section as in CARIOCA – Jorge Helder (db), Jurim Moreira (dr) and Armando Marçal (perc) – plus Thiago da Serrinha (perc), but here, in QUE BOM, also by the grand guest stars Caetano Veloso, João Bosco, Jaques Morelenbaum and Hamilton de Holanda.

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Stefano Bollani – Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Stefano Bollani – Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:34 minutes | 565 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alobar

Stefano Bollani’s solo album “Piano Variations on Jesus Christ Superstar”, entirely produced by Bollani, have been internationally released on 3rd April 2020, that is 50 years after Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice’s original concept album. Bollani, grateful for the exceptional permission granted to him to re-interpret the cult opera, has freely but respectfully approached and improvised on the original songs by following his own playful wit, informed by the musical traditions, genres, styles and encounters that have influenced him and shaped what is considered his very own idiom.

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Stefano Bollani – Joy in Spite of Everything (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Stefano Bollani – Joy in Spite of Everything (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:55 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Stefano Bollani is an artist of ebullient virtuosity, with uncommon sensitivity and range. The Italian pianist has proved to be at home on ECM improvising solo or leading a trio, as well as engaging in duos with Enrico Rava, Chick Corea and Brazilian bandolim player Hamilton de Holanda. With Joy in Spite of Everything – an album of new compositions by the pianist for a trans-Atlantic quintet – Bollani has made his most beautifully textured and infectiously lyrical statement yet. He recorded these nine pieces at New York City’s Avatar Studios with the Danish rhythm section from his Stone in the Water trio – bassist Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Morten Lund – plus two prominent American players and ECM intimates: guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Mark Turner. As its title reflects, Joy in Spite of Everything brims with an indefatigable lightness of spirit despite the inevitable shadows of life.

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Stefano Bollani – Blooming (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Stefano Bollani – Blooming (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:09 minutes | 397 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia

BLOOMING” – Stefano Bollani’s highly anticipated new Piano Solo album will be available from Friday 28 April. Flowering is the moment of transformation, of upward expansion, the period in which nature begins a new life cycle, comes out into the open with its thousands of colours, scents and shapes, and unashamedly reveals itself for what it is: a blessing. Like music. This is the starting point for Stefano Bollani who, after his success with the TV programme “Via Dei Matti n° 0” together with the director and actress Valentina Cenni, returns to the stage with Blooming, the highly anticipated new album in Piano Solo.

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Stefano Bollani – El Chakracanta (Live in Buenos Aires) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Stefano Bollani – El Chakracanta (Live in Buenos Aires) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:19 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

El Chakracanta, Stefano Bollani’s new dynamic live album with two original works of his for piano and orchestra and two tangos by Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Salgán.

Bollani’s “Concerto Azzurro” (2017) and “Concerto Verde” (2019), each classically structured in four movements of distinct character of melody and rhythm, are informed by Bollani’s jazz genius, favouring moments that disobey the rules that demand that a pianist shall stick to the rigorously immutable score. “Concerto Azzurro” [Azure Concerto] was commissioned by Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Azure is the colour of the fifth chakra, associated with self-expression and communication. “Concerto Verde” [Green Concerto] refers to the colour of the fourth chakra, associated with love. Both concertos were recorded live in Buenos Aires: “Azzurro” at Centro Cultural Kirchner on 17th June 2018; and “Verde”, next to Piazzolla’s “Libertango” and Salgán’s “Don Agustin Bardi”, at Teatro Coliseo on 19th June 2019. With Bollani (piano) and the Orquesta Sin Fin, directed by Exequiel Mantega.

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