Live In Noci And Rive-De Gier

Artist: Italian Instabile Orchestra
Label: Leo Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5024792018222
ASIN: B0000281UM

Release Date: 2000-10-15

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Tracks:

Detriti
Ippopotami
Czarda Dell'aborigeno
Pierrot Solaire
Noci...Strani Frutti No. 1
I Virtuosi Di Noci/Munasterio E Santa Chiara

Customer Reviews:

An actual working all-star orchestra........2004-03-07

There are many things to praise about the Italian Instabile Orchestra. As I mentioned in a review of Pino Minafra's Sudori, the IIO is wildly democratic. Almost every member of the IIO leads their own groups, is acknowledged as a composer and they are all virtuoso instrumentalists. Many of them write with the IIO in mind and whosever piece is being played is conducting the group.
This particular CD documents their earliest performances back in the early 1990s. The IIO was the brainchild of Pino Minafra and a few of his friends on the occassion of a music festival in Noci, Italy in December of 1990. The songs on this CD are from that performance and a later one at Rive de Gier. The IIO continues to this day. I understand that there will soon be releasing a CD featuring Cecil Taylor.
It is impossible to overstate the quality of the musicians on this CD. They are the most noted Italian jazz musicians of the last several decades. The reed section is comprised of Mario Schiano, Eugenio Colombo, Carlo Actis Dato, Daniele Cavalanti, and Gianluigi Trovesi. The brass section includes Pino Minafra, Guido Mazzon and Alberto Mandarini on the trumpet family and Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sebi Tramontana, and Lauro Rossi on the trombones. Martin Mayes is on the french horn, the astounding Renato Geremia is on the violin, Paolo Damiani is on the cello and bass, Bruno Tommaso is also on the bass, Giorgio Gaslini is on the piano, and Vincenzo Mazzone and Tiziano Tononi share the drum and percussion duties. The assortment and depth of the musical knowledge that this group brings to their compositions and performances is practically universal. Nothing musical is foreign to them.
On this CD, the compositions are by Damiani, Colombo, Schiaffini, Gaslini, Minafra and Tommaso. I will not try to break them down especially since the liner notes of Steve Lake do a much better job than I could. I will mention that two consistent qualities of these pieces are humor and lyricism. For wildly contemporary jazz, I believe they are very accesible.
And I would like to mention the violin of Geremia. The violin is capable of expressing many things: nobility, passion, terror, joy, and just plain old desire. Geremia knows it all and plays it all.
But then so does the whole IIO. This group is a treat, people. They are the equals or better of the LCJO, the Vienna Art Orchestra, the ICO, Bik Bent Braam, or Muhal Richard Abrams congregations. Give them a listen.

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