Barbara Raimondi Quartetto feat. Emanuele Cisi - Vita Da Altoparlante (1998)

Barbara Raimondi started her professional career when she was very young, working in live and recording sessions as a vocalist for dance music, acid jazz and pop productions. At the age of 24 she had her first touch with jazz music, attending the Civic Jazz Centre in Turin studying with Francesca Oliveri, a well-known Italian singer of gospel and jazz, and then with lyrical teachers getting her a deeper knowledge of vocal technique. Later on, she participated in several jazz seminaries, where she met international teachers such as Mal Waldron. In 1998 she recorded this her first CD as a soloist, called "Vita Da Altoparlante", including jazz standards and some of her own compositions, making use of the Italian language in a jazz musical form, and this record give her the very interesting participation to "Roccella Ionica Jazz Festival", taking part in an original project written and conducted by Enrico Pieranunzi. Her live activity is combined to a teaching work in both Cuneo and Palermo Conservatories and in Scuola Civica di Musica of Turin, and she leads singing and vocal technique clinics. Her mezzo - soprano voice and her versatility allow her to approach different music languages and styles, from Brazilian bossa nova and classical spanish songs from south american tradition, to classical jazz standards, as well as in her own compositions and her repertoire always carries her peculiar jazz imprint. Jazz musicians she has worked with include: Enrico Pieranunzi, Furio Di Castri, Andrea Pozza, Luigi Bonafede, Emanuele Cisi, Giampaolo Casati, Paolo Porta, Claudio Chiara, Enzo Zirilli, Riccardo Fioravanti, Roberto Taufic, Dado Moroni to name a few. Well worth an introduction if not already a fan. ~ extract from BarbaraRaimondi.net. 

Philology Records, W180.2, 1998
Recorded 5th-7th October, 1998 at Orange Studio, Genova, Italy 

Musicians:
Barbara Raimondi - Vocals
Riccardo Ruggieri - Piano
Alessandro Maiorino - Bass
Enzo Zirilli - Drums, Surdo 

Guests:
Emanuele Cisi - Tenor & Soprano Saxes (#4-6,9)
Gilson Silveira - Repinique 

Tracks:
1. Glad To Be Unhappy {Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers} (5:21)
2. Vita Da Altoparlante {Barbara Raimondi} (4:32)
3. It Could Happen To You {Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen} (4:36)
4. Alfie {Burt Bacharach, Hal David} (4:13)
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine {Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer} (5:23)
6. Una Bugia {Barbara Raimondi} (5:29)
7. Nice Work {George & Ira Gershwin} (3:33)
8. Shaker Song {Jay Beckenstein, David Lasley} (5:48)
9. Retrato Em Branco E Preto {Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque} (4:35) 

Total Time: 43:34

Credits:
Recording - Marco Canepa
Mixing - Pippo Monaro
Photography - Grazia Laura
Graphics - Marina Vettorato
Liner Notes - Luigi Bonafede