Gianluigi Trovesi – Baghèt (Remastered) (1978/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:53 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dischi Della Quercia
Gianluigi Trovesi born in Nembro (Bergamo), on January 1st, 1944. His father, a drum amateur and a metallurgical worker, teaches him to play drums – when he is 15 years old he starts studying and playing clarinetto, so to enter the Nembro Band. When he is 16, he enters the Musical School of Bergamo to better and more seriously study of clarinetto.
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Gianluigi Trovesi, Stefano Montanari – Stravaganze consonanti (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:45 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical, Jazz
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In this inspired collaboration with conductor and baroque violinist Stefano Montanari, the masterful Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi extends the line of musical enquiry posited on his Prufumo di violetta album.
Supported by a cast of players well-versed in the ancient sounds of period instruments and the art of historical performance practice, Trovesi looks anew at music of the renaissance and the baroque – at Purcell, Dufay, Trabaci, Desprez and more – adding compositions of his own and stirring some improvising with percussion and electronics man Fulvio Maras into the intoxicating brew.
As Montanari writes in the CD booklet, “Trovesi grasps the power and refinement of a language that passes in the blink of an eye from Dufay to Purcell, arriving at jazz without ever losing the profound meaning of a musical fabric whose primary motive is universal communication.”
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Gianluigi Trovesi, Marco Remondini, Stefano Bertoli, Filarmonica Mousiké, Savino Acquaviva – Profumo Di Violetta: Gianluigi Trovesi all’opera (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:24 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Italy’s great musical archaeologist and one of the outstanding improvisers of his country, Gianluigi Trovesi with “Profumo di Violetta” indulges in his love for the emotional drama and musical beauty of Italian opera. (The title simultaneously alludes to the protagonist of Verdi’s famous opera “La traviata” and to the flower’s sweet perfume.) Accompanied by the characteristic North-Italian provincial “banda”, a large wind orchestra with percussion as we find it in the on-stage-music of most Verdi operas, Trovesi takes us on a humorous journey through the history of the genre.
It starts with Monteverdi’s “Orfeo”, includes many highlights from “La traviata” before briefly visiting Mascagni and Puccini.
The popular and the sublime, irony and unrestrained pathos meet with an improvisational spirit that conveys the pure joy of music making. One of the most unorthodox albums in this year’s release schedule, Trovesi’s opera project is likely to win many enthusiastic listeners among opera lovers and open-minded jazz enthusiasts.
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Gianluigi Trovesi – La misteriosa musica della Regina Loana (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:56 minutes | 479 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This hugely enjoyable and highly inventive album is dedicated to the late Umberto Eco, a lifelong friend of accordionist Gianni Coscia and an ardent champion of this particular duo. Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna, a meditation on the nature of memory, inspires Trovesi and Coscia on their own nostalgic and exploratory journey, referencing music mentioned in the novel and free-associating upon its philosophical themes. As ever, the Italians cast a wide net, playing songs associated with Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller and George Formby, paraphrasing Janáček, dipping into movie music, and improvising most creatively while keeping their dedicatee in view. Repertoire revisits “Interludio”, a piece that Umberto Eco and Gianni Coscia collaborated on 70 years ago, and Gianluigi Trovesi crafts a new composition on the letters of Eco’s name. From multiple perspectives, a brilliant tribute.
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Gianluigi Trovesi, Marco Remondini, Stefano Bertoli, Filarmonica Mousiké, Savino Acquaviva – Profumo Di Violetta: Gianluigi Trovesi all’opera (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:24 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Italy’s great musical archaeologist and one of the outstanding improvisers of his country, reed player Gianluigi Trovesi indulges in his love for the emotional drama and musical beauty of Italian opera on Profumo di Violetta. The title simultaneously alludes to the protagonist of Verdi’s famous opera La traviata and to the flower’s sweet perfume. Accompanied by the characteristic North Italian provincial banda, a large wind orchestra with percussion, Trovesi embarks on a humorous journey through the history of the genre, starting with Monteverdi’s Orfeo and including many highlights from La traviata before briefly visiting Mascagni and Puccini. The popular and the sublime, irony and unrestrained pathos meet with an improvisational spirit that conveys the pure joy of music making. Trovesi’s opera project will appeal to both opera lovers and open-minded jazz enthusiasts.
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Anat Fort, Anat Fort Trio, Gianluigi Trovesi – Birdwatching (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 48:28 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © ECM
For her third ECM album, Israeli pianist Anat Fort augments her long-established trio of bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider with a special guest, Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi. Fort and Trovesi have made a number of appearances together in recent years and Birdwatching, with its alert sense of joy in the playing and lively bright music, takes their rapport to the next level. Quartet music is interspersed with improvised solo piano as the story unfolds in a series of vignettes.
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