Title
SETTE PASSI VERSO IL CIELO (Seven Steps To The Sky)
Velut Luna CVLD260
"...It’s not classical, it’s not jazz…”
This is the mantra I have found myself repeating since I started out on the cultural adventure of Velut Luna about twenty years ago. I think it is the best way to describe many of my records.
The music of Roberto Manuzzi not only supports this "mantra;" if such a thing is possible, it sheds even more light on certain special features of great modern music that I love so much. This is what I look for in the artists I want to produce.
This music lives and breathes our time. It takes its inspiration from the thousand and more geniuses who have been writing music for centuries.
Roberto Manuzzi’s “musical pictures” also have a characteristic which makes them easy to listen to and enjoy: they are very descriptive, and are full of emotion. Wisely, he doesn’t throw away melody, but he uses very special harmonies. These are never banal, but they certainly don’t show off.
So is music has a lightness of touch and this is where its strength comes from. It reminds me of an Impressionist sketch by Monet.
As they lead us ever upwards, Manuzzi’s saxophone accompany us very peacefully towards the sunset and into the dark night. Our journey together is full of vitality, expression, and culture. But it is never tedious. It never tries to teach us something, and it is certainly never banal.
Artist
Roberto Manuzzi, sax
Multi-talented musician, saxophonist, and composer. Born in Rome, he lives in Ferrara. He has composed sound-tracks for both theatre and the cinema, and teaches and experiments in many different modern musical languages. He has already made several CDs under his own name for different record companies, and others where he is the arranger and performer. He worked unremittingly from 1979 to 1990 alongside percussionist Andrea Centazzo as a soloist and arranger, with musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Radu Malfatti, and Albert Mangelsdorff, and has appeared at some of the best-known jazz festivals in Italy and around the world. He is the coordinator for jazz courses and a teacher of music and performance skills for jazz students at the Conservatory in Ferrara. From 1986 to 2013, Manuzzi was saxophonist (but he also played several other instruments) in the band of the well known Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. He performed during all his tours and all his recording sessions. Manuzzi’s music has been published by EUFONIA and WICKY MUSIC.
Paola Tagliani, piano
A pianist with exceptional expressive and technical skill, Tagliani was born in Ferrara, where she still lives. She studied piano at the City Conservatory under Rina Cellini, and was awarded top marks at the end of her course. At the same Conservatory, again with top marks, she graduated with a B. Mus. in pianoforte. She now teaches and gives concerts of chamber and orchestral music. Tagliani has appeared on television and performed at many multi-media events. She has given solo and duet performances (with Rina Cellini) at the Teatro Claudio Abbado in Ferrara of music by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms. With the Città di Ferrara Orchestra she has performed Mozart’s KV 413, KV 414, and KV 415, and Haydn’s Concerto in G major (cadenza by Nino Rota).
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