CONTRIBUTION
W.S.B Jazz Trio
WARREN SEBASTIANI BIONDI
This project presents three established musicians in a programme of transcultural
music in which rhythms and sounds of the Jazz are wedded to European harmony
and melody. This international trio are united by their shared spirit of
creative spontaneity. The compositions all come from the pen of the musicians,
in which GEOFF WARREN, English flautist, saxophonist and composer known on the
international scene for his numerous collaborations, shows his great talent. At
his side we find MARCELLO SEBASTIANI, Italian bassist and composer, known for
his work as sideman with many American jazzmen as well as band leader in his own right and much respected teacher.
Completing the TRIO we have ALBERTO BIONDI,
an Italian percussionist who
worked along in Jazz and Etno Music, great drums teacher as well as sideman
much considerated.
Live Session – Splasch Record “ World
Series”- 2005
We
Bop Blues - More soul,Marcel l- Liberation
-Latakian Smoke – Dexterity - Afro Blues- Medley
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BADAL
ROY
European Trio
The compositions, all originals
from Warren and Roy, give equal importance to the three protagonists; sometimes
starting out from Indian rhythmic cycles, sometimes from western melodies,
sometimes from Indian melodic modes, and sometimes from western grooves.
The strength of this trio lies in the personality and
eclecticism of the three components, starting obviously with Badal Roy the
first great tabla player to enter into the world of jazz- (it would suffice just
to think of the four historic albums recorded with Miles Davis in the '70s, or
his long, and still active collaboration with Ornette Coleman.)
This group is therefore more than just an encounter, it
is a genuine transcultural project, in which different musical languages and
experiences each bring their own approach to form and improvisation, starting
out from the Harmony of the Drum. .
When Badal Roy joined Miles Davis back in 1970 he
asked the band leader how he should play, and he has never forgotten the answer
he received: "Play it like a nigger…" is what Miles said. It
was a lot more than just a brash answer, and sometimes it's years later that
one realises what the crux of a mysterious statement like that is. Miles liked
the sound of tablas but he knew that the time and phrasing of Indian classical
music didn't fit in with his concept of electric jazz. So he wanted Badal to
develop a crossover style between two music cultures, between Indian sounds and
Western phrasing…and Badal Roy has become one of the real pioneers of
this wide field.
Badal Roy has received critical acclaim both in Europe
and in the United States for his work in jazz fusion music, and at present with
Ornette Coleman's Primetime. An imposing discography records his work with -
apart from Davis - Herbie Mann, John McLaughlin, Dave Liebman, Don Cherry,
Pharoah Sanders, Nana Vasconcelos, and Dizzy Gillespie.
The current trio is a product of Badal's meeting
English flautist/saxophonist Geoff Warren in New York in 1997. They have since
worked on developing their music together, giving equal space to the different
disciplines of tabla composition and western harmonic-melodic schemes. The trio
is completed by Italian bass player Marcello Sebastiani, whose Mediterranean
phrasing on the acoustic bass fits in perfectly with this crossover project.
Frammenti
D’Anima – FMR Records - (FMRCD 202-0406) - London 2006
Courante - Dunes of Atlants - L’Ira di Krishna –Trouble -
Delicias de Groove - Sonet in Three Dialects – Banglabruzzo -
Whatever-Tramonto
DOWTOWN
342
Bowery, New York, NY 10012-2408
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August 25th, 2006
- Frammenti
D'Anima (FMR 202; UK) This sublime trio features Badal Roy on tables &
percussion, Geoff Warren on concert & alto flutes and Marcello Sebastiani
on double bass. Tabla virtuoso, Badal Roy, has worked with many giants of jazz
like Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Dave Liebman and Perry Robinson. This fine
disc brings together three musicians from varied cultures and traditions. Badal
Roy is originally from India, yet now resides in NJ. Geoff Warren is from
England and Marcello Sebastiani is from Italy, where this disc was recorded.
This trio has been playing together for six years previous to this recording.
"Courante" opens with an infectious groove, a bass-line that I
impossible to forget, superb flute and tables dancing together. This disc is
immensely well recorded and perfectly recorded, so the trio sounds as if they
are one spirit in flight. Their contrabassist, Marcello, has a warm, and
inviting tone that put him amongst the best of all bassist. On "L'ira Di
Krishna", Badal plays a tabla groove that is so funky it feels like he
wants to get everyone up and dancing. Geoff takes one of the best flute solos
ever and Marcello also locks into the groove with his dynamic bass, taking an
incredible solo as well. I can't think of a more beautiful trio disc I've heard
in a long while, three masters in perfect harmony with each other. - BLG
INFO
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STEFANO TAGLIETTI
After Pop Ensamble
Stefano
Taglietti is one of the most acclamate young composer of the modern Art Music area.
His
compositions for little ensamble,Symphonic
Orchestra and solo instruments are played by resonable Orchestras such
as Berliner Philarmoniker,Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, on radio sessions and in
live concert in USA and in Europe.
The
“After Pop Project” is based
on an open group of instruments and
voices coming from various musical areas.They
work over the compisitions,
improvisation and the expressive ideas from the leader who can paste or to cut the recording stuff in an
unitary form. In live performances the improvisation and the obligato parts became the way over the ensamble run the own carateristic
language.
The
Taglietti’s “After Pop Suite” ( RAI Trade
Editions) has excited the interest of
many critics and musicians as Heiner Goebbles who wrote to
Taglietti:
“…I
was very pleased, by that format out of all the other formats;
great
meeting of pop and new music aesthetics. compliments! and thanks for the
CD
best wishes -- Heiner Goebbels
Some
of “ After Pop Project “ musicians are:
Stefano
Taglietti
Piano;Compositions
Marcello
Sebastiani
Contrabbasso;
Oberdan Fratini
Syntetizer
Pablo Montagne
Electric guitar
Diana Torto
Voice
Jacopo di Tonno
Cello
Massimiliano
Pitocco
Accordeon
Gianluca
Ciavatta
Alto Sax
Fabrizio Mandolini
Tenor & Sop. Saxes
Alfredo Laviano
Percussion
& Drums
Alessandro Tomassetti
Vibes & Marimba