Stefano Maltese - (1999) Open Letter To Mingus - MJCD 1122
Stefano Maltese
Biography by Francesco Martinelli
Since the '70s, Sicilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Stefano Maltese has worked in a variety of situations ranging from solo to large ensembles including strings and unusual instruments like harmonica and glockenspiel. He has actively explored the interaction between writing and improvising, and followed his own personal path inspired by music, literature, and other arts, independently arriving at results similar to those reached by musicians of other post-jazz environments, such as
In 1987, Maltese set up the first orchestra that grouped avant-garde musicians from different areas of
Stefano Maltese Open Music Orchestra
Alberto Mandarini (tp, flug), Lauro Rossi, Sebi Tramontana (tb), Stefano Maltese (as, cb, arr), Eugenio Colombo (ss, as, fl, bfl), Carlo Actis Dato (bs, bcl), Umberto Petrin (p), Giovanni Maier (b), Antonio Moncada (dr), Gioconda Cilio (vcl)
Recorded in rome 1999, october 26 and 27 in Sala B Radio Rai.
Pithecantropus Erectus
Pow Wow Mingus
Peggy's Blue Skylight
The Blue Meets The Moon
Celia
The Wings Of The Night
Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
Love Call
Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
A Stormy Night
Eclipse
Things We Said
Astonishing italian new jazz "all star" ensemble assembled in 1999 to celebrate Charles Mingus' 20 years after his death. In this deep tribute the predominant feeling is respect and a great knowledge of Charles Mingus compositional and arranging skills. In this concert, later published as enclosed to the italian jazz magazin "Musica Jazz", we find a selection of 9 among the best italian musicians in a program of six Mingus compositions alternated with 6 original Maltese compositions inspired to those ones. Even if this is an important and very fine record, perhaps is not the most rapresentative of Stefano Maltese's originality; but it's an OOP and a very rare album to find even in Italy.
My aim here is mostly that of pointing to the attention of a highly qualified group a name perhaps not so largely known despite the amazingly beauty of his music.
A Link to Stefano Maltese recording company website: http://www.labirintisonori.it/english/stefano/frame_stefano.htm
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Here the links:
Stefano Maltese - (1999) Open Letter To Mingus -MJCD [FLAC]
part1
http://www.mediafire.com/file/dqggfwdwtnj
part2
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tmrjythhdzt
part3
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jdkdyqtqzj3
part4
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yyzjzqmyzdo
part5
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1mh3y1lolmm
ENJOY THE MUSIC!
SEE YOU :-) LYM
Muchas gracias.
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