This is the first movement of a big Tone Poem in 15 movements that I composed and completed in its basic notation in March/April of this year.   Unfortunately I almost completely forgot about the expression marks, and I was hoping that human players would be available so I could explain to them how the different movements should be performed.  But, alas , no human players were available, so I've added quite a lot of expression indications to this first movement called "Preamble" and the computer therefore makes a reasonable performance of the piece.  I will add more expression marks but for tonight this is what I could do.   
      All 15 movements were completed by the beginning of April, and since then I've been desperately looking for human players. But, nobody has time to try my pieces.  The whole work lasts 110 minutes, for which I have been criticised . It's a tone poem describes the life of an imaginary, and somewhat heroic character called Arghrard Vestipherty, in pure music without any words at all.   "Preamble" is just a long introduction to the Tone Poem, giving an idea of what is to come.

Vestipherty Trio I ,Preamble.

Since the early 90's, Alessandro performs in Italy and abroad both as a soloist and as a member of different bands. He collaborated with artists like of Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, David Murray, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Steve Grossman, Peter Erskine, Dave Liebman, Palle Danielsson, Bob Sheppard, John Patitucci, Michael Moore, Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu and many more. He toured extensively in Europe, Norway, Japan, China, Brazil, Mexico, USA, playing both in clubs and concert halls. He recorded more than 20 CDs published by VVJ, Dodicilune, Blue Gleam, Blue Note, Disk Union, Somethin' Cool, Atelier Sawano, Terashima Records. Best jazz albums of the year (Swing Journal, JP 2007), Top Jazz nominee (Musica Jazz, IT 2014), Top 100 best cd of the year (Jazzit 2014), Top 100 best jazz albums of the year (UK Vibe 2014). Included into the “Best of Jazz playlist” (All About Jazz, IT 2017), awarded by Jazz Critique (Jazz Hihyo, JP) critics’ poll as Best Jazz CD of the Year 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019.

Vestipherty Trio I ,Preamble.

Julian Abbott