Bolling - Concerto for Classic Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio (arr. for Guitar Quartet) | Digressione Music DIGR106

Bolling - Concerto for Classic Guitar & Jazz Piano Trio (arr. for Guitar Quartet)

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Label: Digressione Music

Cat No: DIGR106

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 6th November 2020

Contents

Works

Bolling, Claude

Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio (arr. F Lattarulo for guitar quartet)

Artists

Adriatic Guitar Quartet
Giuseppe Sangiorgio (percussion)

Works

Bolling, Claude

Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio (arr. F Lattarulo for guitar quartet)

Artists

Adriatic Guitar Quartet
Giuseppe Sangiorgio (percussion)

About

‘[…] Also, I need to confess, up to that moment, my knowledge of Bolling's music was superficial: I was only familiar with some pieces written for one instrument and jazz trio (including the ones in this album). I was unaware of the rest of Bolling's production and his qualities as a pianist, improviser and arranger. Considering my difficulties and my ignorance on the subject, I "jumped" into the reading of Bolling's autobiography, combining my reading with some more listening of his music, as the author's stories, considerations or anecdotes solicited my curiosity. Therefore, I suddenly felt thankful to the Adriatic Guitar Quartet (AGQ) who, with its unusual request, allowed me to deepen the knowledge of the creative and rich universe of one of those rare talents, who are often underestimated. Bolling's music is pervaded by a certain happiness (or "bonheur" in French) which, I believe, comes from an unconditional and disinterested passion for music. Indeed, this absolute and total passion is a pattern we find in most of the events of Bolling's biography. It is a passion captured in his enthusiastic words for other mu-sicians (his model Duke Ellington, above all), and it is perceived in his performances (with his Big Band, with Stephane Grappelli, in the duets with Oscar Peterson or with Michel Legrand). The passion in his music turns into a sense of positivity, expressed in different ways and nuances. For this recording, the Adriatic Guitar Quartet has ventured into a hard and brave challenge: making a transcription (for three classical guitars and a baritone guitar) of the Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio by Claude Bolling. The mission was accomplished: the whole piece seems to wear a tuxedo instead of the usual mis-matched suit proper of the guitar quartet, it acquires timbre uniformity, without losing its musical and expressive peculiarities. The album is an original choice, far from intellectualistic conjectures and mediatic opportunism, because it follows the same approach as Bolling’s: the pleasure of making music. A pleasure that, surely, will be also shared with the audience.’

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