PETITES SUITES - FABIO FRANCO & JEREMY NORRIS TRIO

PETITES SUITES ( CVLD178 )

Author : JEREMY NORRIS
Performer : FABIO FRANCO & JEREMY NORRIS TRIO

Available in: HD File, CD

Traces

01 - Suite No. 1 - Fantasy
02 - Suite No. 1 - Clochard
03 - Suite n 1-Day Dream
04 - Suite No. 1 - Déjà vu
05 - Suite No. 1 - Time Out
06 - Suite No. 2 - Homage to Claude Bolling
07 - Suite No. 2 - Nocturne
08 - Suite No. 2 - The Parisian
09 - Suite n 2-Piano Bar Blues
10 - Suite No. 2 - Chiaroscuro
11 - Suite n 2-Theme and variations
12 - Déjà vu (alternate takes)

Traces

SUITE N.1 20'25”
1 Fantasy 5'23”
2 Homeless People 3'21”
3 Day Dream 3'35”
4 Déjà vu 4'28”
5 Time out 3'38”
SUITE N.2 22'01”
6 Homage to Claude Bolling 3'08”
7 Nocturne 2'26”
8 The Parisian 2'45”
9 Piano Bar Blues 2'36”
10 Chiaroscuro 2'52”
11 Theme and Variations 8'14
12 Déjà vu (alternate takes) 3'18”
Total Time 45'46”

Notes

Original compositions by Jeremy Norris. Fabio Franco flute, Jeremy Norris grandpiano, Daniele Carnio double bass, Simone Gerardo drums.
24bit/88.2kHz digital recording was made “live-in-studio” at Areamagister Recording Studios- Yellow Hall, on February 2009.

Jeremy Norris's two Petites Suites, recorded here for the first time, explore musical terrain familiar to us but rarely explored by contemporary composers. They are soundscapes that nestle comfortably between the thrilling extemporaneity of jazz and the assured mastery of classical music. Despite his dual heritage, Norris's musical language is not without its surprises, brimming with jazz polyphony and virtuosic flourishes in his complex ensemble writing and solo cadenzas. Yet the suites' melodies also possess immediacy and freshness: they express themselves with a kind of catchiness, a quality Ennio Morricone attributes to music that evokes sounds and motifs perhaps heard elsewhere but impossible to identify. The suites are dedicated to two great musicians: Giusto Pio and Claude Bolling. Without their advice, their encouragement, and above all, the example of their compositions, the suites could not have been conceived, much less composed.
In short, an album of new music, which will not disappoint the expectations of those curious listeners, looking for cultured but enjoyable music and above all capable of brilliantly overcoming the increasingly useless barriers placed between "genres".
The recording uses the consolidated PCM 24bit/88.2kHz recording technology, but above all, as usual for Velut Luna, it was made live, live-in-studio, in the fabulous Sala Gialla of the MagisterArea studio