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| 1. | Scarlattina
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| 2. | Sequenze Fughe
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| 3. | Litania Sibilante
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| 4. | M 42
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| 5. | Lover Man
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| 6. | Herr Fantozzi
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz, Creative Orchestra
Eugenio Colombo, Gianluigi Trovesi, Carlo Actis Dato, Daniele Cavallanti, Mario Schiano reeds
Guido Mazzon, Alberto Mandarini, Pino Minafra trumpets
Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sebi Tramontana, Lauro Rossi trombones
Martin Mayes french horn
Renato Geremia violin
Paolo Damiani cello
Umberto Petrin piano
Giovanni Maier bass
Tiziano Tononi, Vincenzo Mazzone drums
Guests: Enrico Rava trumpet
Antonello Salis accordion
The Italian Instabile Orchestra was founded by trumpeter Pino Minafra 10 years ago and made its debut (intended as a one-time event) at the Europa Jazz Festival in Noci. In 1992, the group first played outside Italy at festivals in France, Switzerland and Germany. In 1994 it recorded its first CD, followed by a 2-CD live recording in 1997 at a Pisa festival dedicated exclusively to the music of the Italian Instabile Orchestra and its subgroups. In 1999, the BIMhuis in Amsterdam hosted an Instabile Festival during which the ensemble first played pieces by non-members, namely Guus Janssen, Misha Mengelberg and Willem Breuker. The IIO has been dedicated to the cause of Italian creative music celebrating its regional differences. The idea of an intra-Italian orchestra is about blendings and distinctions and creative frictions, about disputation and argumentation which are a fundamental part of Italian culture. Pulling musicians from all regions and generations of the Italian new jazz, ranging from rural to urban, north to south, the IIO is a national melting-pot in the context of a large, cooperatively run jazz composers' ensemble.
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, the IIO met at the RAI Studios in Rome to record its masterpiece including compositions and arrangements by such outstanding band members as Gianluigi Trovesi, Pino Minafra and Giancarlo Schiaffini and featuring great guest soloists Enrico Rava and Antonello Salis. The unique quality of this orchestra's music comes from embracing the tensions between classical intimations (allusions to Scarlatti, Xenakis and others), folk traditions (brass bands, accordion, marches, renaissance dance forms), radical harmonic orchestrations, free jazz improvisation and musical theatricality. It is music "that gets the blood pounding, the mind clicking, and the spirit soaring" (Art Lange).
What distinguishes this outstanding release from others of the wonderfully eclectic Italian Instabile Orchestra is the fine recording quality and the unedited takes. With five convincing original tunes, a glorious interpretation of "Lover Man," a host of superb soloists, and the addition of special guests (trumpeter Enrico Rava and accordionist Antonello Salis), there is something for every lover of fine jazz. The orchestra mixes jazz with italian folk, classical influences, and freestyle abstractions but, to its credit, never intellectualizes the music. The earthy, compelling improvisations by alto saxophonist Mario Schiano, trombonists Giancarlo Schiaffini and Sebi Tramontana, French hornist Martin Mayes, trumpeter Pino Minafra, and others equally talented mark the orchestra as an all-star conglomeration of the highest order. The fascinating compositions seem to encapsulate a unique Italian sensibility infused by historical norms. Thrilling and invigorating, this recording should satisfy the most discriminating tastes and open the Italian Instabile Orchestra to new admirers. ~ Steven Loewy, All Music Guide
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1990
Genre: Jazz
The Italian Instabile Orchestra (IIO) is an 18-piece big band that includes some of Italy's finest free and avant-garde jazz musicians, including trumpeter Pino Minafra and saxophonists Eugenio Columbo, Gianluigi Trovesi, and Carlos Actis Dato; pianist/composer Giorgio Gaslini and bassist Bruno Tommaso were also early members. The orchestra was originally an ad hoc group organized in 1990 to play the Festival di Noci, an annual Italian jazz event, but Minafra decided to resuscitate it for the next year's festival. In 1992, the band played its first gig outside of Italy, the Rive de Gier festival in France (the music from the band's first Leo Records release was drawn from the Rive de Gier and the second Festival di Noci performances). The band played several more times that year in France, Germany, and Italy, and began to develop a reputation. The journalist/record producer Steve Lake took a liking to the group and recorded it for the ECM label in 1994.
Gaslini left the IIO in 1996, to be replaced by Umberto Petrin. Trumpeter Enrico Rava joined the band that same year. Tommaso left in 1998. The IIO has had many prominent guest collaborators, including Cecil Taylor, Lester Bowie, and Willem Breuker. The band celebrated its tenth year of existence in 2000 with appearances at festivals in Canada and the United States. In September of that year the band collaborated with Taylor at the Talos Festival in Ruvo-di Puglia, Minafra's hometown. Like other European big bands such as the Willem Breuker Kollektief and the Vienna Art Orchestra, the Instabile Orchestra strays far from the prototype of the American big band. Rather than relying on formula, the orchestra instead pushes boundaries, addressing technical and philosophical extremes making up the whole of 21st-century jazz. Since it's inception, the orchestra's writers (Gaslini, Tommaso, and the band's trombonist Giancarlo Schiaffini among them) have tended to exhibit a great deal of sardonic wit and general irreverence.
---Chris Kelsey, All Music Guide |
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