Two For The Road - Chiara Pastò Francesco Pollon

Two For The Road (CVLD363)

Chiara Pastò, voice

Francesco Pollon, piano

*Lyrics of Libertango are written by Chiara Pastò

01. Libertango (Astor Piazzolla)* 1:54

02. Two For The Road (Henry Mancini / Leslie Bricusse) 4:18

03. Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere) 3:31

04. 'Round Midnight (Theolonius Monk / Bernie Hanighen) 6:11

05. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart) 3:24

06 . When Lights Are Low (Benny Carter / Spencer Williams) 2:46

07. Just A Smile (Enrico Santacatterina / Chiara Pastò) 4:03

08. They Can't Take That Away From Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 3:45

09.  One Day I'll Fly Away (Joe Sample / Will Jennings) 4:37

Total Time: 34:36

24bit/88.2kHz and Analog recording made strictly live-in-studio at Magister Recording Area, Preganziol, Italy, on July 29, 2023 - Analog mix and mastering made at MLStudio, Naquera, Spain, on August 3, 2023

Some technical data:

Production: Marco Lincetto
Musical producers: Marco Lincetto, Andrea Valfrè
Balance recording engineer: Marco Lincetto
Sound engineer: Andrea Valfrè
Mix and Mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Photo: Marco Lincetto
Design and layout: L'Image

THE BEST YOUTH by Marco Lincetto

Chiara Pastò finally arrives to make a Jazz record. At the fourth album, all made with my label Velut Luna and with me as a producer, the young, brilliant singer from Padova now faces in the height of his artistic and vocal maturity his "territory of choice" to which he has worked throughout his academic career and has practiced on many concert occasions. The repertoire of this record presents some famous standards, such as the title track or Round Midnight, but also a very original excursion in the famous song of Astor Piazzolla, Libertango, to which Chiara herself gives a fascinating new text. And then his original song, written with Enrico Santacatterina, Just A Smile, which is a workhorse of his pop area, so to speak, today reinterpreted in a jazz standard style.

A complete and mature album, which is exalted by the pianistic wisdom, by the refined taste, seasoned by an admirable technique of Francesco Pollon, perhaps the most representative Italian jazz pianist of the young generation, who currently lives and works in New York, after earning a prestigious master’s degree there at the Manhattan School of Music - Jazz Arts.

In short... The young, great musicians, still exist, and more than ever, in Italy: just give them the space they deserve!