Ceccarelli: Pagine Vere

Dadi Carvalho is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Known particularly as a bass player, he was a member of Novos Baianos and A Cor do Som and has collaborated with artists including Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben Jor, Marisa Monte and Tribalistas. On Pagine Vere he joins Michela Lombardi in the song Construtivamente.

Ferruccio Spinetti is an Italian double bass player and composer. He joined Avion Travel in 1990 and co-founded Musica Nuda with singer Petra Magoni in 2003. His collaborations include Stefano Bollani’s I Visionari and projects with pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli. Alongside performing and recording, he has taught jazz double bass and ensemble playing.

Giovanni Ceccarelli is a pianist, composer, arranger and educator based in Paris. Over a musical career spanning three decades, he has performed with internationally renowned artists, recorded fifty albums, released a Latin Grammy Award-nominated album and appeared on stages around the world. His numerous artistic projects combine original compositions, personal interpretations of music by major contemporary composers and live soundtracks for silent films.

In 2009 he released The Nights of the Beuscher (Philology), a double album of live recordings with the saxophonist Massimo Urbani. His trio album Météores (Bonsaï Music, 2011) was acclaimed by the press. Waxin’ in Camerino (2011) followed a fifteen-year collaboration with jazz master Lee Konitz.

Ceccarelli and his group InventaRio have released three albums: InventaRio (My Favorite Records, 2010), featuring Marisa Monte, Ivan Lins, Petra Magoni and Pacifico as guest artists; InventaRio incontra Ivan Lins (Blue Note/Biscoito Fino, 2012), which received a Latin Grammy Award nomination; and the InventaRio LP, released by Warner Music in 2017.

He performs internationally in a duo with bandoneon player Daniele di Bonaventura, with whom he recorded Mare Calmo (2015) and Eu Te Amo – The Music of Tom Jobim (2019). With saxophonist Marcello Allulli, he released Canto (2019) and has performed live soundtracks for silent films in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

More Morricone (Bonsaï Music, 2020) is a duo album with his longtime musical partner Ferruccio Spinetti. A tribute to Ennio Morricone, it received acclaim from the international press and media.

Luca Falomi is trained in classical music and has a vivid, incisive and silvery touch in his right hand and meandering deftness in his left hand. Still every song he has composed clearly shows it is heartfelt and comes from a place that is nobody’s and everybody’s land at the same time, a place where every music culture has thrived and brought fragrant contributions to jazz. The keystones supporting the framework of sound have been the same for the last five hundred years nearly all over the world, the tangle of notes that we might define Afro-Mediterranean and the ones which, arising from there, later simply and naturally became Caribbean Afro-American and Latin-American notes. Jelly Roll Morton said one century ago that the essential ingredients of jazz are creativity, surprise and an expert sprinkling of “latin tinge”.

Michela Lombardi is among the top ten Jazz Vocalists in Italy according to the “Jazzit Awards 2011”, and for many years she is mentioned in the “Best Voice” section of the Italian magazine “Musica Jazz” Top Jazz polls. She receives three nominations at the Italian Jazz Awards. Michela has a varied background of musical experiences (both as a vocalist and as a lyricist in English) between Italy and the United States. Her approach to singing is based on sober, semi-refined jazz vocals, with a distinctive expressiveness capable of bluesy and soulful shades with a flowing scat. Since 1999 she records over fifteen records, two of them with the Renato Sellani trio and two with legendary saxophonist Phil Woods, both as a singer and lyricist for Woods’ compositions (“Michela Lombardi & Phil Woods Sing & Play The Phil Woods Songbook” vol.1 & vol.2, Philology, 2010). Her album “Live To Tell” (released by American label Dot Time Records in 2017) is recorded together with the Riccardo Fassi Trio and features a full set of re-imagined music first recorded by pop icon Madonna, featuring special guests Steven Bernstein and Don Byron. Her latest work, “Shape Of My Heart – The Music Of Sting” (Atlantis/Saifam, 2019) is recorded with Piero Frassi, Gabriele Evangelista and Bernardo Guerra. She signs a song together with Burt Bacharach (“Un Domani Per Noi Due”, the official Italian version of “How The Heart Knows”). She has been teaching vocal jazz in many Italian conservatories, and performing in important venues such as Tel Aviv Opera House, Duc Des Lombards (Paris), The Music Village (Bruxelles), Jazzahead (Bremen).

Petra Magoni contributes voice on Partons to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Stéphane Casalta was a Corsican singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music connected Corsican traditions with wider Mediterranean influences. His collaboration with Giovanni Ceccarelli included Animantiga and the album Pagine Vere, for which he contributed lyrics and a guest vocal performance in Chi manda le onde / L’antiluna.

Giovanni Ceccarelli is an Italian pianist, composer and arranger whose work connects jazz, song and chamber music. His international collaborations include the InventaRio project and a duo with Ferruccio Spinetti. Pagine Vere grew from his longstanding collaboration with singer and lyricist Michela Lombardi, joined by guitarist Luca Falomi.

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.
Kenny Wheeler did not like to label, or as he sometimes put it ‘pigeonhole’, music. His music and his playing spanned many genres. He was undoubtedly rooted in jazz while he also loved free improvisation. He occasionally contributed to rock music recordings and was influenced by the world of classical music. He especially loved listening to Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and J.S. Bach. He composed prodigiously throughout his career and was a skilled arranger for small groups and large ensembles. At the time of his passing he was the patron of the Royal Academy Junior Jazz course