Physical Release: 30 May 2025
Digital Release: 13 June 2025
| Artist(s) | Giancarlo Schiaffini, Paolo Zampini, Arrigo Cappelletti, Daniele Patumi, Giuppi Paone, Massimiliano Scatena, Roberto Laneri |
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| Instrumentation | Alto Flute, Double-Bass, Piano, soprano Saxophone, Trombone, Voice |
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The music on this CD contains all of my music for solo piano, three pieces of which also appear in a version for piano and instruments.
The first music I listened to as a child was mostly piano music from the Romantic period (Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms), followed by jazz greats like Jelly Roll Morton and his “Spanish tinge”. To this day that kind of rich sonority remains the most satisfying writing for the piano in my mind’s ear, and perhaps that’s the reason why these pieces sound so different from most of my music or, for that matter, from most of contemporary music.
Needless to say, all the music in this CD is written, except for improvisations by Arrigo Cappelletti, Giancarlo Schiaffini and myself in the ensemble versions.
I want to thank Massimiliano Scatena for having worked hard and long to music which proved more difficult than I had imagined.
Anusathi’s Minute Waltz was written in 1972 as an exercise on the use of the German augmented sixth chord in a theory class at SUNYAB.
Variazioni su tema d’aria is a theme with very few variations.
In den Juli nächten is a notturno d’estate without anguish.
Imaginary Crossroads and Sonora Crossroads were written in California when I was a Ph.D. student in San Diego, which accounts for the Spanish feeling.
Song of Surrender, the title track, is an unashamed tribute to the golden age of the piano.
L’ouverture is built around a short phrase from one of Bach’s Orchestral Suites, declined with Spanish feeling.
Cechov groups various pieces written as incidental music to a theatre production.
Giancarlo Schiaffini, composer-trombonist-tubist, was born in Rome in 1942 and graduated in Physics at the University of Rome in 1965. Self-taught, he appeared as soloist in the first free-jazz concerts in Italy and subsequently presented his own compositions widely in the mid 1960’s. In 1970 he studied at Darmstadt with Stockhausen, Ligeti and Globokar and formed the contemporary chamber ensemble Nuove Forme Sonore. He also worked with Franco Evangelisti in 1972 and has since collaborated with the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova consonanza until 1983. In 1975 he founded the Gruppo Romano di Ottoni performing Renaissance and Contemporary music. He is member of the well known Italian Instabile Orchestra. He taught at the Conservatorio “G. Rossini” in Pesaro, “A. Casella” in l’Aquila and at the Summer Courses of Siena Jazz (instrument, improvisation, composition). He plays Contemporary Music, Jazz and Improvisation in concerts and International Festivals of Contemporary music and Jazz like Teatro alla Scala, Accademia di S. Cecilia, Biennale Musica di Venezia, Autunno Musicale di Como, Settembre Musica di Torino, IRCAM, Upic and Festival d’Automne (Paris), Reina Sofia (Madrid), Ars Musica (Bruxelles), Europa Jazz Festival du Mans, Jazz a Mulhouse, Tramway (Rouen), Wien Modern, Aspekte (Salzburg), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Moers, UNEAC (Cuba), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lincoln Center and Hunter College (New York). Mr. Schiaffini has collaborated with John Cage, Karole Armitage, Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi in various performances and works for solo trombone or tuba have been dedicated to him by Scelsi, Nono, Amman, Alandia, Dashow, Villa-Rojo, Renosto, Laneri, Guaccero. His music has been published by BMG, Curci, Edipan, Ricordi. His treatise on contemporary trombone techniques is published by Ricordi, “E non chiamatelo jazz”, about improvisation, “Tragicommedia dell’ascolto”, “Immaginare la musica”, “Errore e pregiudizio” by Auditorium Edizioni.
Paolo Zampini
Nato a Pistoia, ha compiuto gli studi di flauto traverso a Firenze sotto la guida di Mario Gordigiani e Roberto Fabbriciani. Da oltre 40 anni svolge attività concertistica sia come solista che come componente di importanti orchestre ed ensemble: “Sinfonica della RAI” di Roma, “Roma Sinfonietta”, “Roma Group”, “Solisti dell'Accademia Filarmonica Romana” e “Orchestra Nazionale Santa Cecilia”.
Dal 1985 è stato uno degli interpreti preferiti del M° Ennio Morricone, eseguendo in concerto i suoi film e musica da camera. Sempre con il Maestro romano ha realizzato numerosi CD e DVD ed eseguito concerti in Austria, Francia, Belgio, Inghilterra, Germania, Norvegia, Repubblica Cèka, Polonia, Israele, Stati Uniti, Spagna, Giappone, Corea del Sud, Siria, Portogallo , Russia, Lituania, Georgia, Brasile, Cile e Messico. Ha inciso per Edi-Pan, Rai Uno, Mediaset e Tele Montecarlo. Dal 1980 è stato docente di flauto traverso nei seguenti Conservatori Statali: F. Cilea di Reggio Calabria, L. Refice di Frosinone e L. Cherubini di Firenze, Istituto di Alta Formazione di cui è stato Direttore dal 2015 al 2021.
Arrigo Cappelletti: Born in Brunate (Como) on February 12 1949, after a degree in Philosophy and a teaching experience in high schools, he dedicated himself to jazz. He has so far relased 30 records, at least six of them (Samadhi, Reflections, Plains, Terras do risco, Trio in New York, Mysterious) contributed to define an Italian way to jazz made of lyricism, introspection and connections with other cultures. Among the several festivals he attended, it is worth mentioning: Pori Festival (Finland, 1991), Festival “Sanremo: the other music” (1993), Jazzitalia Festival (Verona, 1994), Noto jazz festival (1996). Portugal EXPO 98, Festival Sete Sois Sete Luas (Portugal, 1999), Clusone jazz 2000, Jazz & wine festival (Gorizia, 2000), Festival “The voices of jazz” (Milan Auditorium, 2003), Iseo jazz, Siena jazz, Reggio Calabria Ecojazz (2004) Festival Villa Celimontana (Rome, 2005), Siena Jazz 2005, Novara Jazz 2007, Santannarresi Jazz (2009), Padua Jazz (2009), Udine & Jazz (2011), Iseo Jazz (2011), Chiasso International Jazz Festival (Switzerland , 2013). He has played with Lew Soloff, Barre Philips, Bill Elgart, Olivier Manoury, Steve Swallow, John Hebert, Bruce Ditmas, Ralph Alessi, Mat Maneri. Very active in jazz teaching, he has published several books covering criticism and autobiography: The perfume of jazz (ESI), Paul Bley, the logic of chance (L’Epos), translated into English by Vehicule press of Montreal, and The adventures of a jazz musician-philosopher (Arcana).
Paone, Giuppi (Vocalist), has had her music training in Italy, during a time of great cultural excitement, exploring various types of vocal techniques and expressions and seeking a personal synthesis among her several interests: Jazz improvisation, the technical control of Classical Singing, Indian Raga, the vocal character of regional Italian peasant traditions, various ethnic vocal expressions, the contemporary music approach, voice and gesture and finally voice teaching. A collaborator with Roberto Laneri for over 25 years, offering her voice for his multi-faceted music.
Currently teaching Jazz Singing at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples.
Massimiliano Scatena
He trained musically at the ‘A. Casella’ Conservatory in L'Aquila, the Eesti Muusikaakadeemia in Tallinn and the ‘Liszt ferenc’ Academy in Budapest. He specialised with musicians such as Aldo Ciccolini, Balázs Szokolay, Ferenc Rados, François-Joël Thiollier, Angela Hewitt, among others.
He has won numerous piano performance and chamber music competitions. An eclectic musician, he has always turned his attention to a vast repertoire, ranging from the music of Bach and Scarlatti to compositions of our time; piano works have been dedicated to him and there are several first performances by living composers.
Parallel to his work as a soloist, he carries out an intense chamber music activity: Significant in this regard are his collaborations with artists such as Alessandro Carbonare, Gabriele Geminiani, Francesco Dillon, Alexey Zhilin, Andrey Baranov, Matteo Liuzzi, Theodora Geraets, composers Michael Riessler, Sidney Corbett, the Camerata Italica orchestra, the Ensemble Modern Frankfurt, and the Dutch NSO orchestra, to name but a few, in locations such as the Santa Cecilia Auditorium of the Parco della Musica, Auditorium of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, the Hungarian Academy in Rome, Auditorium of the Barattelli Concert Society Park in L'Aquila, Sala dos Espelhos in Lisbon, Auditorium of the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Kissterem of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Kossuth Klub in Budapest, among others.
He dedicates himself with great passion to teaching; he is the founder of the international Summer Campus for further education ‘Ambient'Azioni Musicali’, which since 2010 has offered intensive specialisation courses with high-profile teachers in various locations in central Italy.
He was a piano teacher for pre-academic courses at the Conservatorio ‘Santa Cecilia’ in Rome.
Roberto Laneri a composer, wind player (clarinets, saxophones, didjeridoo) and overtone singer. Studied philosophy on Rome and music in the U.S. (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego). Among his teachers, Lejaren Hiller, Charles Mingus, William O. Smith, John Silber and Keith Humble. After many years of activity in the field of contemporary music, now his music defies definitions and current space-time dimensions. Recordings with Charlie Mingus and Peter Gabriel as well on his own (Two Views of the Amazon, Anadyomene, Memories of the Rain-Forest, The Tail of the Tiger, Sentimental Journey, Escher, Breath, Winds of Change). Has published two books on the theory and practice of overtone singing: La voce dell’arcobaleno and Nel cielo di Indra. A member of the Budapest Club, founded by Edwin Laszlo for a planetary consciousness, has taught at the Florence Conservatory until 2011.
Roberto Laneri a composer, wind player (clarinets, saxophones, didjeridoo) and overtone singer. Studied philosophy on Rome and music in the U.S. (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego). Among his teachers, Lejaren Hiller, Charles Mingus, William O. Smith, John Silber and Keith Humble. After many years of activity in the field of contemporary music, now his music defies definitions and current space-time dimensions. Recordings with Charlie Mingus and Peter Gabriel as well on his own (Two Views of the Amazon, Anadyomene, Memories of the Rain-Forest, The Tail of the Tiger, Sentimental Journey, Escher, Breath, Winds of Change). Has published two books on the theory and practice of overtone singing: La voce dell’arcobaleno and Nel cielo di Indra. A member of the Budapest Club, founded by Edwin Laszlo for a planetary consciousness, has taught at the Florence Conservatory until 2011.
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