Luggage

Artist: Rosario Giuliani
Label: Dreyfus
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 764911661827
EAN: 0764911661827
ASIN: B00005LN2V

Release Date: 2001-07-10

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Tracks:

Luggage
Portrait Of Jennie
Dear Tucci
The Awakening Of The Creature
Love For My Mother
Oriental Folk Song
Road Song
I Hope You Care
Thinking Of You
Remi

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Customer Reviews:

Full marks to the Italian stallion of the alto sax!.......2001-12-20

This album is worth buying for the first track alone - exhilarating, testosterone laiden jazz - its impossible to feel depressed after one play through of this. The only disappointment of the album is that there aren't more similarly up-tempo tracks, but once you've got over that, the treatment of the ballards, particularly 'Oriental Folk Song' (which compares very favourably with the Wayne Shorter original) is addictive. I'm looking forward to the next release from this band.

Yet another proof that jazz is world music........2001-07-11

Rosario Giuliani is yet another Italian who has mastered the tradition of jazz and who has gone on to develope his own voice. The liner notes give thanks to Coltrane and Parker (then again even the atheists among us give thanks for John Coltrane and Charles Parker) but I hear his tone as somehow combining Sonny Criss and Jackie McLean. While his playing can be fast and fluid ala bebop, he would have fit in nicely on some of the soulful mid-sixties Blue Note stuff and he has a somewhat bent melodic sense like Wayne Shorter or James Spaulding. More simply put, he is a wonderful player. Can you tell that I am impressed? So why not five stars? I like to reserve that rating for those few albums that reveal truely new possibilites of music to me. This album is not particularly innovative. Giuliani seems to agree with G.B. Shaw when he said "The thing is not to do something new. Any fool can do something new. The thing is to do something that cannot be bettered." Giuliani has maybe done just that on this impressive and powerful CD. He plays alto throughout and is accompanied by Pietro Lussu on piano, Pietro Ciancaglini on the bass and Lorenzo Tucci on the drums. Giuliani wrote five of the ten tunes, Lussu and Ciancaglini each contribute one. The killer among the originals for me is the title track. A fast, odd and rythmic melody. The three covers are Oriental Folk Song by Wayne Shorter, Road Song by Wes Montgomery and Portrait of Jennie by Robinson and Budge. All very well done. I guess I am just going to have to learn Italian, move to Italy, find some way to make money and listen to all the great jazz.

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