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JP band - “LE
NOTE RICHIAMANO VERSI”
(ABEAT record, Milano, 2004, catalogo ABJZ 024, distr. IRD)
DOMENICO CIPRIANO (poetry)
ENZO MARANGELO (voice)
ENZO OREFICE (piano)
with:
PIERO LEVERATTO (bass)
ETTORE FIORAVANTI (drums) In
this CD, Jazz blends with Poetry obtaining a result that doesn’t
have precedents in Italy. A job that comes after 4 years of devotion
and developments on the wake of the creativeness and the innovation
of overseas works as “The Clown” by Charles Mingus or the most
recent “The Lion for Real” by the poet Allen Ginsberg with musicians
as Bill Frisell, Philip Glass and others, produced by Hal Willner.
The original music composed for the “JP band” by Enzo Orefice,
pianist and composer very appreciated for the crystal clear purity
and the essentiality of his melodies, produces delicate and sheming
pieces, alternate to other passages where the rhythm is protagonist
and the voice makes the phonetic aspects of the word to emerge which,
in the poetries by Cipriano, reflect the construction of a “solo”
with notes and syllables tied up among them, in a precise system of
rules. In this way we realize a fusion between word and music
without expiring in the song, neither in the theatricalism of word,
but always staying in unstable balance between the “purity” of jazz
and the “purity” of poetry.
The “JP band” project marks a “rarity” in the Italian jazz,
revolutionizing the kind of the jazz-poetry, with a very enjoyable
CD for the interplay of the harmonized and ultramodern trio
Orefice-Leveratto-Fioravanti, able to capture all the tones of the
poetic texts by Domenico Cipriano (recognized by public and by
criticism as one of the most interesting presences of the last
Italian poetry), with the fascinating and rhythmic voice of the
versatile Enzo Marangelo, one of the most representative character
for his research and experimentation of the Italian contemporary
theatre, that blends in an impeccable way with the trio.
A CD destined to be leader of a school, in a period in which the
poetry always looks for the bond with the music making curious and
satisfying the taste of the refined listeners, a product attended in
the least details, included the book with the poetries, equipped
with the photos edited by E. Toccaceli, the Italian photographer of
the great ones of Beat Generation and a lineer note by G. Rimondi,
collaborator of “Musica Jazz” and currently the most important
Italian researcher of Afro-american literature and the of bond
between jazz and poetry.
“To the texts, that escaping
themselves to the metric conventions emphasize the sound aspects of
a versification rich of iterations and assonances, corresponds a
quick and essential music, always careful to the changes of
atmosphere, that converses with the recitative voice in a game of
continuous adjournements. And it is this game that wins: allowing
the spaces of individual feeling to produce themselves, which
guarantee the whole holding, music not only succeeds in making
itself to be listened, but in a very inusual way it also shows it
wants to listen. Both because the voices are listened to themselves:
the voices of the texts with the recitante and the instrumental ones,
both because they involve the listener questioning the sensibility
of him under the acoustic and intellectual profile.”
(From liner note by Giorgio Rimondi) Audio sample
(mp3)
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