Pietro Tonolo - Italian Songs

Double Bass – Essiet Okun Essiet*
Drums, Vibraphone – Joe Chambers
Piano, Accordion – Gil Goldstein
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Pietro Tonolo

1		 ...E Penso A Te	5:17
2		 Non Mi Dire Chi Sei	3:59
3		 E La Chiamano Estate	5:16
4		 Senza Fine	5:58
5		 Metti Una Sera A Cena	6:07
6		 Sincerità	6:46
7		 Stringimi Forte I Polsi	4:00
8		 Almeno Tu Nell'Universo	5:01
9		 Terra Mia	4:49
10		 Pensandoti	4:20
11		 Marcia De Esculapio

01 IS e penso a te

Pietro Tonolo - sassofoni tenore e soprano
Gil Goldstein - pianoforte
Riccardo Del Fra - contrabbasso
Francesco Sotgiu - batteria
Ospiti:
Paolo Birro: Pianoforte - tracce 3, 9
David Boato: Tromba - tracce 2, 8

La discografia di Pietro Tonolo è tanto ricca quanto variegata ed affonda le sue radici negli anni '80, dopo che intese abbandonare la promettente carriera di violinista classico per imbracciare i sassofoni ed abbracciare la musica afroamericana. Una svolta che lo ha portato, oltre che ad affiancare alcuni tra i migliori jazzisti internazionali, a divenire sassofonista e compositore di particolare pregio e spessore, anche per i suoi lavori di ricerca e per le sue composizioni sempre vivificanti.

Tonolo costruisce un percorso fatto di ricordi, una mèrge degli stili a lui più cari, che più si confanno alla sua indole musicale. Mìrando richiama i suoi natali e gli splendidi luoghi che appartengono a Mirano, città dove è nato. Profuma di veneto e della ricca storia della cinta veneziana, grazie anche alla sinergia creatasi con i suoi ottimi solidali - dall'esperienze differenti - che hanno contribuito alla realizzazione di un lavoro iridescente. Il sessantenne pianista e accordionista americano Gil Goldstein, già al fianco di Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall; Riccardo Del Fra, tra i più ricercati contrabbassisti europei, al fianco di Chet Baker ed anche direttore del Dipartimento Jazz e Musica Improvvisata del Conservatorio Nazionale Superiore di Musica e Danza di Parigi; Francesco Sotgiu alla batteria e percussioni, anche lui come il leader, già violinista e profondo conoscitore di percussioni della tradizione popolare. Al quartetto di base si uniscono, per due brani a testa, Paolo Birro al pianoforte e David Boato alla tromba.

Colpisce una consuetudine che va sempre più affermandosi, quella di lasciar sfumare il brano (pratica spesso usata, più in passato, nella musica leggera), come accade in Ipnosi e Bastia Fuori. Ma, al di là di questa scelta, le composizioni si muovono con opportuna varietà metrica e timbrica e lasciano il giusto respiro a tutti i musicisti che si ritagliano spazi di creatività, liberando tutto il loro sapere, come nel caso di Molini, dove Del Fra dà ottima prova del suo vocabolario fatto di intense misure, suono denso ed equilibrio ritmico, sempre leggibile e godibile. Stessa parentesi in Graticolato, brano dal sapore modern mainstream, grazie anche alle sovrapposizioni tra Boato e Tonolo. Così come è d'esclusivo appannaggio di Goldstein la suadente Onirico che manifesta tutto l'universo espressivo del pianista, dal dosato lirismo ed immune da leziosità. La voce strumentale del leader ha senso narrativo in ogni caso; emerge in maggior misura nella descrittiva T. Originale e nel passo a due con l'accordion di Goldstein in Progresso. Tonolo non perde mai di vista la sua impetuosità hardboppistica, sia al tenore che al soprano, e accuratamente evitando il tecnicismo esasperato.

Un lavoro che attraversa il jazz americano più moderno, ben calato nell'improvvisazione di matrice europea. 

08 Piste 8

05 Piste 5

03 Piste 3

MI SONO INAMMORATA DI TE

MA L'AMORE NO

CHACUN POUR SOI

Tu Te Laisse Aller

ZAYT TRIO-SOBUGE'(SIW)

-DAJALOO: http://www.pietrotonolo.com/#/presentation-dajaloo/4537959440
PIETRO TONOLO Saxophones
GIAMPAOLO CASATI Trumpet cornet
ROBERTO ROSSI Trombone and shells
GIANCARLO BIANCHETTI Electric guitar
DUDU KOUATE Percussion
NABY CAMARA Percussion
ALEX BOTTONI Percussion
MOULAYE NIANG Percussion

Pietro Tonolo started to deal with African culture and music several years ago (the relationship between jazz and African music is well known ...); this growing interest has led him to a first trip to Senegal in January 2009. His impact with African music world - a very positive and fruitful one - pushed him to the conception of the project "Dajaloo", "to be similar" in Wolof language, which was developed in two other subsequent trips to Senegal. Four Senegalese drummers were involved from "African Djembe Junior" group, along with three noted Italian musicians (Giampaolo Casati, Roberto Rossi and Giancarlo Bianchetti). The result was a very intense and exciting act, whose effectiveness has been tested on "the field" during an Italian tour made in July 2010, which was a great success with audiences and critics. "Dajaloo" is a continuously evolving project, and now shows a different group of percussionists, led by Dudu Kouate, Senegalese percussionist active since several years on Italian and European music scene, the Guinean Nabi Camara and Alex Bottoni.

Pietro Tonolo
is one of the leading jazz saxophonists in Europe. He began his activity in young age, playing in Europe and America with the bands of Gil Evans and Chet Baker. He recorded over ninety CDs as a sideman and under his own name, obtaining wide success and recognition. He has worked with many of the major Italian jazz musicians (Franco D'Andrea, Massimo Urbani, Enrico Rava, Rita Marcotulli, Danilo Rea, Roberto Gatto) and European (Aldo Romano, Tony Oxley, Henri Texier, whom he has completed tours in the East, Africa and Latin America). He performs regularly with musicians such as Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Joe Lovano, Joe Chambers, Gil Goldstein, Steve Swallow, Paul Motian (whose "Electric Bebop Band" he has been a member) and is one of Italian jazz musicians who enjoy the highest esteem by colleagues overseas.

Roberto Rossi 
Born in Rimini in 1962, he graduated in trombone in 1984. He began his career doing some chamber groups and symphony orchestras, participating in international competitions and won several awards. He was a member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Sanremo, the Italian RAI, G. Rossini Pesaro, Florence Ort. In 1986 he started his work in jazz. He has made important recordings (about 80 titles), and has performed in many festivals in Italy and abroad. Among his collaborations: Oliver Lake and David Murray, the "Paul Whiteman" orchestra, Marco Tamburini, Franco D'Andrea, Roberto Ottaviano, Cedar Walton.

Giampaolo Casati: 
Graduated from the Conservatory "N. Paganini" in Genoa in 1985, plays concerts for several years, teaching and arranger for big band and jazz combo. He has collaborated with many Italian and foreign musicians playing in the major Italian, European, American and Asian Festivals, he has participated in radio and television as well in the production of soundtracks for film, theater and advertising. Among his collaborations: Gianni Basso, Tullio De Piscopo, Riccardo Zegna, Keptorchestra, Piero Odorici, Gianni Cazzola, Pietro and Marcello Tonolo, Battista Lena, Charlie Mariano, Paul Jeffrey, Egea Orchestra, Lee Konitz, Bobby Durham, Tony Mann, Don Braden, Benny Golson. Since 2002 he has been several times a member of Carla Bley orchestra, with whom he has performed in the best European festivals and participated in the recording of two CD. Giancarlo Bianchetti: Graduated with honors in classical guitar, jazz guitar studies in parallel. Since the early nineties has a busy concert schedule that takes him to meet and play with musicians such as Jack Walrath, Tony Castellano, Steve Grossman, Tony Scott, Carlo Atti Marco Tamburini, Ares Tavolazzi, Sandro Gibellini, Piero Odorici, Pietro and Marcello Tonolo, Luciano Milanese, Tullio De Piscopo, Robert Bonisolo, Bobby Watson, Eliot Zigmund and Bibi Rovere. From 1990 he collaborated with Bologna singer Silvia Donati and with musicians active in Brazilian music, from '95 to about 2004 was part of the group accompanying the singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela, with whom participated in the recording of three CDs ( Ballo di S.Vito, LiveinVolvo, Canzoni a Manovella). In 2003 Peter Tonolo invited him to join a quartet that includes Paul Birro and Marco Micheli and most recently he was with Egea Orchestra.

Dudu (Doudou) Kouate:
Born in Senegal in 1963 by a family of griots, known to be the custodians of African cultural tradition and music. After humanistic studies in his country he moved to Europe. He lives in Bergamo, where he teaches African percussion since many years. He gives clinics on the history of traditional African instruments, trying to trace the Territorial boundaries of the populations. Percussionist, instrumentalist, playing in various bands and theatrical productions. The constant search for the sound (sound of elements), has always lead him to new experiences in the music world. Recognized enhancer of traditional instruments, especially percussion and idiophones, he has managed to devise their inclusion within the diversity of musical contexts. In Italy he has made with the director and musician Alberto Nacci the soundtrack for the short film "The moving town" presented at the Locarno Film Festival. Has recorded with the group Odwalla, with whom he's been playing for four years, two DVDs and two CDs including the latest production: "Medusa, the world of percussion and voice". He has recorded with Bergamo saxophonist Guido Bombardieri the album "African Thought". He recently collaborated with Bakan Seck in the Youssou Ndour's JOLOLI Dakar recording studio.

Naby Camara Guinea:
Griot by birth and training, living in Italy since 2004, accompanied by his balafon. He sings and is a master of dun dun and bolong.

Alex Bottoni
Percussionist from Milan, explores African percussion since many years and has worked with African and Italian musicians.

Moulaye Niang
Born in Dakar (Senegal) by a family of musicians, played as a drummer in Paris with Daby Touré, Big Mau, Doc Gynéco. In Senegal played-among others- with Nder. In Italiy, he collaborated with Mauro Pagani, Eugenio Finardi, Raiz and founded, with Djez Ndiaye, the multiethnic group Gorée Island.

PIETRO TONOLO DAJALOO "PAFODE"

PIETRO TONOLO  DAJALOO  "FLOWERS"

Pietro Tonolo (born May 30, 1959) is an Italian jazz saxophone player and composer.

Classical music’s loss was jazz’s gain in 1979, when Pietro Tonolo gave up a career as a classical violinist to become a jazz sax player. Around that time, he moved to Milan, where he played with some of Italy’s best jazz musicians, including Franco D’Andrea, Luigi Bonafede, Larry Nocella, Massimo Urbani, Rita Marcotulli and Enrico Rava.
In 1982, Tonolo joined the Gil Evans Orchestra, playing with notable musicians as Steve Lacy, Lew Soloff and Ray Anderson. He later went on to perform in jazz clubs and on radio and television around Europe and the USA, both as a sideman and as a leader with his own band. He was a steady member of the Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band from 1999 to 2004. Other notable collaborators have included the likes of Kenny Clarke, Roswell Rudd, Sal Nistico, Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, John Surman, Steve Swallow, Gil Goldstein, Barry Altschul, Joe Chambers, Henri Texier, Aldo Romano, Kenny Wheeler, Eliot Zigmund and Tony Oxley.
Besides Jazz, Tonolo has been collaborating with contemporary musicians and ensemble (‘Ex Novo Ensemble’, ‘Laboratorio Novamusica’, ‘Nex Time Ensemble’, ‘Sentieri Selvaggi’, ‘Orchestra d’archi Italiana’, sax quartet ‘Arundo Donax’). Is currently teaching at the Conservatory of Vicenza and Siena Jazz international masterclasses.
He lives in Venice.

01 IS e penso a te

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