• Limited Edition

• 33 rpm

• Pure Analogue Recording & Cutting

• Cutting Machine wired by Signoricci

• One-Stage Pressing Process

• Heavy Quality Sleeves

• Signoricci Vinyl Printed in Germany

• Produced in only 496 copies

 

Riccardo Zegna - Piano 
Giampaolo Casati - Trumpet, Cornet, Flugelhorn

 

shots at Hotel Il Castello at Palazzo di Scoto di Semifonte Certaldo Alto in Florence in Februrary 2015. This combination has already given us some wonderful albums: Minimalist occupied, chamber jazz, the wonderful acoustics the vault of the hotel "Il Castello" in Florence, and the grandiose analog recording technology Fon CEO Giulio Cesare Ricci. After magnificent plates like "I Could Write A Book" or "Who Cares?", Which was mixed from these ingredients, now follows "Paris Blues". The duo, which can be heard here, for years is the concert business in this line coordinated following recorded:

 

Riccardo Zegna at the piano and Giampaolo Casati on trumpet. Bass or drums? Need not these two. Zegna, a trained concert pianist, is acting in a technically savvy and complex level that he can easily play Groove, harmonies and bass lines simultaneously. . Time with a loose walking bass, sometimes with free dahinswingendem rhythm Casatis trumpet sound is audibly influenced by his greatest champion, Louis Armstrong - certainly no coincidence that was chosen as the title track and theme of this album "Paris Blues"; actually a Duke Ellington album that showed Armstrong as soloists. In Fons "Paris Blues" playing Zegna and Casati, with two exceptions, only compositions written by Duke Ellington.

 

For this they are looking for with goldgräberischer meticulousness small, little-known treasures from the rich oeuvre of the great big band conductor: songs like "Reflections in D", "Isfahan" or "Just Squeeze Me" are rarely played and heard, but they are for intimate chamber music treatment duo in a very special way. Especially great is the profound harmony who Zegna and Casati worked together over the Jahrer. These two musicians are apparently blind, so here seamlessly interlock the grooves and harmonies. It's never come here to rhythmic or melodic misunderstandings, always seems a previously to know what the other will play the same. And so this duo can treat also the courage to leave gaps, the luxury of simplicity: Restrained, reduces play both solos with instinctive certainty about economical accompaniments, and touch not only with playful dance numbers but also with sensitive ballads. Giulio Cesare Ricci caught the dreamy, warm acoustics of the vault of the old hotels on purely analog way with the legendary Neumann tube microphones, a - as if you were there live, so natural and transparent is this sound. Reprocessed or cut was not here - and so provides "Paris Blues" just as authentic as intimate jazz experience that you should indulge in any case. wv mastering by Giulio Cesare Ricci purely analog his Ampex 2-track analog machine, even the one-stage section is implemented purely analog, was pressed in Germany on high quality 180g Virgin Vinyl. Strictly limited to 496 pieces! Pure Analogue Recording Pure Analogue Cutting Cutting Machine wired by Signoricci One-Stage Pressing Process Heavy Quality Sleeves

 

Side 1
        1. All Too Soon
        2. Cotton Tail & Drop Me Off In Harlem
        3. Reflections In D
        4. Someday Sweetheart
        5. Paris Blues
        
Side 2
        6. Be Bop
        7. Isfahan
        8. Just One Of Those Things
        9. Just Squeeze Me