SETTE PASSI VERSO IL CIELO - MANUZZI, TAGLIANI

SETTE PASSI VERSO IL CIELO ( CVLD260 )

Author : Roberto Manuzzi
Performer : Roberto Manuzzi (Sax), Paola Tagliani (Piano)

Tracks

1. Tempus Fugit (Time Runs) 4:35
2. Herr Sebastian & Mr Bill 2:52
3. Anna di Via Croce Bianca (A.nne Of White Cross Street) 4:20
4. L’ultimo treno (The Last Train) 3:44
Le favole della volpe (Fables Of The Fox)
5. La volpe che non aveva mai veduto un leone (The Fox Who Never Saw A Lion Before) 1:42
6. La volpe e la maschera (The Fox And The Mask) 3:02
7. Zeus e la volpe (Zeus And The Fox) 1:26
8. L’amore degli insorti (Love Of The Insurgents) 4:36
9. La danza (The Dance) 2:40
10. Sette passi verso il cielo (Seven Steps To The Sky) 2:54

88.2kHz/24bit original recording made live-in-studio at Magister Area Studios, Preganziol, Italy on July 23rd, 2014

Production: Velut Luna
Musical producer and artistic direction: Marco Lincetto and Roberto Manuzzi
Recording, mixing and mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Front cover: “Inargentami” by Sonia Maria Luce Possentini (oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, property of the painter)
Inside photos: Marco Lincetto
Design: L'Image
Marketing and Sales Manager: Patrizia Pagiaro
Translation: Thomas Marshall

Notes

"...It's not classical, it's not jazz..."
This phrase is a sort of mantra that I find myself repeating since I began the cultural adventure of Velut Luna about 20 years ago, when I try to describe many of my discographic productions.
Roberto Manuzzi's music not only fully supports this "mantra", but, if possible, highlights even more those peculiar characteristics of today's great music that I love and look for in the artists I decide to produce.
These are songs that breathe in the contemporary with full lungs: that is, they feed naturally on the thousand, and no longer a thousand, sources of inspiration that have filled the staves of music for centuries before us.
Roberto Manuzzi's "musical paintings" have a characteristic that makes them naturally lovable, namely the descriptive force and the emotional charge. Wisely, the composer from Ferrara does not renounce the melody, but knows how to support it with harmonies that are never banal, but not ostentatiously learned either.
It makes lightness its strength, just as only an impressionist sketch by Monet can do.
Walking towards the sky, Manuzzi's saxophones accompany the listener on a peaceful journey, which begins at sunset and continues into the night: a journey permeated with a rich vitality, expressive and cultured, but above all never cloyingly afflicted by academic vanities or, worse, by flattering banality.

Roberto Manuzzi
A versatile musician, saxophonist, composer, he was born in Rome and has lived in Ferrara for a long time. He is the author of soundtracks for theater and cinema, a teacher and experimenter of various contemporary musical languages. He has published several CDs under his name with various record labels and many others as an arranger and performer. From 1979 to 1990 he worked continuously with the Friulian percussionist Andrea Centazzo as a soloist and arranger, collaborating with musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Radu Malfatti, Albert Mangelsdorff, participating in some of the most important jazz festivals in Italy and abroad. He is the educational coordinator of jazz courses and a teacher of jazz ensemble music at the “G. Frescobaldi” Conservatory in Ferrara. From 1986 to 2013 he was a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist in the group of the famous singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini, participating in all his tours and in the production of his recordings. His compositions are published in print by the publishing houses EUFONIA and WICKY MUSIC.
Paola Cuts
Pianist with great expressive and technical skills, she was born in Ferrara where she lives and where she attended the local Conservatory, graduating in piano with top marks under the guidance of Professor Rina Cellini. Subsequently, at the same institute, she obtained, again with top marks, the two-year second level degree in Musical Disciplines (piano)
Teacher and didactic, he performs concerts both in chamber groups and in orchestral groups. He has collaborated in television productions and in the soundtrack of multimedia events. He has performed solo and in duo with Rina Cellini music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms at the Teatro Comunale of Ferrara in various concert seasons. With the “Orchestra Città di Ferrara” he has also performed the concerts K413, K414, K415 by WA Mozart and the concert in G major by Haydn (with the cadenza written by Nino Rota)