JAZZ NATURE - Lucia Minetti

JAZZ NATURE (CVLD294)

#1 - The Nearness Of You (M.Washington - H.Carmichael) 3:24

#2 - Alone Together (A.Schwartz - H.Dietz) 4:20

#3 - Wild Is The Wind (D.Tiomkin - N.Washington ) 3:55

#4 - So In Love (Cole Porter) 4:02

#5 - The Two Lonely People (B.Evans - C.Hall)) 4:25

#6 - Skylark (J.Mercer - H.Carmichael) 4:20

#7 - The Old Country (C.Lewis - N.Adderley) 2:52

#8 - Turn Out The Stars (B.Evans - G.Lees) 4:54

#9 - I Wish I Knew (M.Gordon - H.Warren) 3:23

#10 - No moon at all ( D. Mann/L.?Red? Evans) 4:39

#11 - Try Your Wings (M.Barr - D.McGregor) 3:13

Total Time: 43:31

Lucia Minetti, voice

Pietro Ballestrero, guitar

Stefano Profeta, double bass

 
Production: VELUT LUNA

Executive producer: Marco Lincetto

Recording, mix and mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto

Cover photo: Massimo Forchino

Inside photos: Marco Lincetto

Design and layout: L'Image

The recording was made direct to stereo master, strictly live-in-studio, during only one session at MagisterArea Studios, Main Hall, Preganziol, Italy, on September 23rd, 2017 THIS IS A PURE AUDIOPHILE RECORDING: during the recording of the digital HD PCM 88.2kHz/24bit master and the contemporary analog master and the subsequent transfer to disc, the entire audio chain was trasformerless. The signal was not passed through any processing device (no compression, no equalization and no corrective editing) at any step during production.

Presentation by Lucia Minetti:

Over the years I have sung and loved many repertories, exploring different sound worlds, from fado to Brazilian music, from French song to jazz. From the time of my album Elle, made in 2003 with my master Giorgio Gaslini, this is my first work completely dedicated to the standards of the great American songbook, almost a return, expected and reached with the maturity acquired after a long journey, at the heart of what has always been the main reference point of my journey. As if it were part of its nature, jazz can be a way for a musician to relate in general to art, a desire for freedom, a desire to experience new emotions, to risk and to get involved every time you express yourself. Together with Pietro and Stefano I found a deep sharing of this spirit, this temperament, that we wanted to call JAZZ NATURE, and that immediately formed the key to read a vast repertoire of songs, from the '30s to the '70s, finding our group sound and selecting with great pleasure the songs for the record. Fully grasping the philosophy of this research and projecting us completely into the era of that jazz, Marco Lincetto has proposed a strictly live recording in the studio, which would enhance the characteristics of our approach 'NATURE', as well as the extraordinary technical qualities of audio recording. We enthusiastically accepted the difficult challenge, and lived together an incredible experience, two days during which the music was played, sung, listened and recorded with the same tension and the same emotional intensity that is felt in the best concerts.
Lucia Minetti