Marcel Zanini - Peu de Choses - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pianist/composer/educator and Brazilian native Carmen Sandim draws from a deep well of personal experience, harmonic insight and melodic inspiration on Play Doh, the follow-up to her debut album Brand New (featuring master cornetist Ron Miles). Once again Sandim enlists her mentor, the revered pianist Art Lande, as producer, for a book of expressive and intricate compositions ranging from septet plus guests to quartet with just piano, guitar, bass and drums. The album takes inspiration from Brazilian music, modern jazz and even rock, featuring Sandim on piano alongside top-tier players Shane Endsley (trumpet), Bruce Williamson (reeds), Alex Heitlinger (trombone), Khabu Doug Young (guitar), Bill McCrossen (bass) and Dru Heller (drums). Supported by a grant from Pathways to Jazz, Play Doh reflects Sandim's fruitful yet complex life as an artist, educator and mother (now based in Denver, she teaches at Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Denver). The album takes it's title from the pliable children's product; the initial melody of the funky, richly textured title track InchPlay DohInch was derived from a short theme that Sandim's young children, Juju and Amelie, created and often sang during playtime. The opening septet piece InchAruru, JujuInch (Inchgo to sleep, JujuInch), written for her son, evokes the challenging reality of Sandim's creative process. InchStarting in June of 2017,Inch she recalls, InchI scheduled two nights a week where I didn't sleep at all. Every Tuesday and Friday I would stay up all night composing. I wasn't sleeping that much anyway, but I was amazed that by choosing to stay awake, I'd actually feel fine the next day. Happy and inspired, in fact.Inch

Marcel Zanini - Saint-Germain-Des-Pres [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/23/2007

Recorded in 1985 at the International Guitar Festival in Liège, maestro Astor Piazzolla (the mentor of modern tango) is joined by Argentinean guitarist Cacho Tirao, Cuban bandleader and guitarist Leo Brouwer (here conducting the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), Belgian flautist Marc Grauwels, and Guy Lukowski, the guitarist and the Festival's Artistic Director/Producer who initiated this musical work. Their programme begins with an extraordinarily sensitive performance of the Adios Nonino requiem by the virtuoso bandoneon player, containing notably the first performance of his InchHistoire du TangoInch. The recording closes with Cacho Tirao's wonderful piece InchConcerto de Buenos AiresInch. Frémeaux & Associés is proud to be associated with Guy Lukowski in making this masterly recording available to the public again. It is without a doubt one of the finest moments that the tango has given us. Augustin Bondoux/Patrick Frémeaux