Recording together was a thought matured over time, without setting precise objectives: the moment came alone, when we both felt ready to stop, as in a picture, the instant of the intersection of our personal trajectories: precisely at 17 and 50 years old.
We have not built a way of playing together, but we have lived it, every day, for years: we have become accustomed to dialogue without speaking, to perceive each other’s thoughts, to spontaneously intertwine melody and rhythm on the common ground of the music we have listened to or which we proposed to each other over time: we took advantage of this deep dialogue to build a strong emotional connection, a unique world of communication and sharing between son and father.
Jazz is the language that unites us: as a basic idea of the repertoire from which to start and as a musical approach in which to give life to improvisational spaces. An airy and relaxed discourse emerged that does not disregard traditional instrumental roles, but that intertwines their plots to form a natural, soft and spontaneous tissue.
The result is this recording session, produced and curated by Edoardo Gennaro on April 15, 2022, played live in a single room, to fully preserve the integrity of the moment and the music.
Stefano & Tommaso Profeta
I met Tommaso 4 years ago […]. I was already impressed at that time. He had a beautiful sound and a very good time.When I listen to these duets with his father Stefano, I can only say one thing: congratulations. Your way of playing the alto sax moves me. How you sing the melodies and how you develop your improvisation makes me want to listen to your music again. The alto sax is an instrument with which it is not easy to have your own voice. You have got it.
Joan Chamorro (Sant Andreu Jazz Band)
The work of Stefano and Tommaso Profeta, father and son, is a kind of “laid raw material”, that is, recalling a Pirandellian quotation that I used in the Genealogia del Perigeo disc, “so it is if you like”.
The first consideration that listening suggested to me is the homogeneity of the project, in fact I believe that the duo had a precise idea in mind that they consistently maintained until the end. The “formula” is decidedly courageous and I acknowledge this. Anyone who knows a little bit of jazz knows how difficult it is.
Tommaso’s sax has that melancholy sound that reminds me of the fascinating “cool jazz” school of the 1950s. Stefano had the hardest task for a bass player, having to produce sound, rhythm and harmony. I would have broken my neck , but it doesn’t seem to me that he let himself be influenced by the difficult context.
I wish you good luck for this job, well done!
Giovanni Tommaso (Perigeo, Umbria Jazz Clinics director)