Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro – Pure Imagination (2019)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:03:55 minutes | 1,05 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Fonè Jazz – SACD 205
This album was recorded in the ancient Palazzo di Scoto di Semifonte in Certaldo Alto (FI). For this recording Giulio Cesare Ricci used the legendary original Neumann U47, U48 and M49 tube microphones. The mastering was made using the entirely analog and valve Signoricci system. The master was realized with the Ampex ATR 102, 2 tracks, 1/2 inch, 30ips. “As no editing has been made, all the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed”. The program chosen for this album is particularly refined and this makes it attractive. Alongside standards that fall within Scott Hamilton’s more usual and familiar repertoire, the American saxophonist has thought of pieces that are more unusual for him but congenial to the duo (Scott Hamilton sax, Paolo Birro piano) who interpret them in a heartfelt and inspired way.In fact, we find a rarely heard ballad like “If I’m Lucky”, masterpieces from musicals like “That’s Entertainment” (from “The Band Wagon” of 1953) and “You’re Gonna Hear From Me” of 1965 written by the well-known recently deceased pianist and conductor André Previn. Finally, two pieces by great instrumentalists/composers in the history of jazz, “Day Dream” by Billy Strayhorn and “Funkallero” by Bill Evans. An album not to be missed!
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Paolo Birro, Aldo Zunino, Alfred Kramer – Castello Nights (2017)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:46:57 minutes | 817 MB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Fonè – SACD150
Castello Nights is a new album on Fone featuring Paolo Birro (Piano), Aldo Zunino (Bass) and Alfred Kramer (Drums). On the album, this talented Jazz Trio performs some fine Jazz classics including “Round About Midnight,” “I Can’t Get Started,” and “On A Misty Night”.
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Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro, Alfred Kramer, Aldo Zunino – Live at Museo Piaggio (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:35 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonè Records
This album is part of the recordings I made on the occasion of the concerts of the 1st edition of the fonè Music Festival Piaggio 2019. The concerts organized by Giulio Cesare Ricci were held at the Piaggio Auditorium located inside the famous Museum in Pontedera, the place where Piaggio was born and where it still continues to produce today.
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Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro & Alfred Kramer – Bean And The Boys (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 56:03 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonè Jazz
In the fourth decade of a jazz career in which he has always made a subtle art sound easy, US saxophonist still caresses old standards with the same urbane ecstasy he always has. In its hip-hop or contemporary-classical borrowings, free-improv extremes or north European minimalist whisperings, jazz is now a very different music to the sleek, swinging one Hamilton absorbed from his dad’s records as a boy. But nobody can accuse Hamilton of living in the past: it would be like telling someone they shouldn’t still be in love with a fascinating old partner.
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Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro, Alfred Kramer, Aldo Zunino – Poinciana (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:28 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonè Records
This album is part of recordings I made on the occasion of concerts of the fonè Music Festival Piaggio edition 2021. I realized this recording at the Auditorium Piaggio located inside the famous Museum in Pontedera, the place where Piaggio was born and where it still continues to produce today. Inside the Museum every year the public from all over the world can admire the Piaggio production made over the years, all the models of the Vespe and Ape, all the Aprilia, Gilera and Moto Guzzi motorcycles that have won national and international awards over time. For this recording I brought all my equipment both analog (Ampex ATR 102 Electronic Tube Ampex Model 351-1965, 2 tracks, 1/2 inch, 30ips modified by David Manley) and digital (Pyramix Recorder, dCS A/D and D/A converters). As for microphones I used my original collection of Neumann U47, U48, M49 in addition to the mike pre-amplifier and Signoricci cables. A state-of-the-art recording with no sound manipulation, no equalization, no reverb, no compression and pansion … but natural sound with true timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Auditorium of the Piaggio Museum. Also for this recording I used a “field effect” recording technique… all this to bring the listener to live again in his home hifi system, the live effect as if he were present at the performance. In this album protagonists are Scott Hamilton, one of the greatest mainstream in the world, in the company of three great jazz players Paolo Birro, Aldo Zunino and Alfred Kramer, his usual partners when he performs in Italy. Among the songs played to highlight Poinciana (Nat Simon) that gives the title to the album, Birk’s Works (Dizzy Gillespie) and Put On A Happy Face (Charles Strouse).
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