Between innovation and tradition, the album The Brooklyn Option marks the debut of the Claudio Fasoli Quintet, a band formed by the Italian saxophonist together with musicians from the New York scene: the trumpeter Ralph Alessi, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist Drew Gress and the drummer Nasheet Waits. The saxophonist returns as his habit to collaborating with internationally renowned musicians in a work born almost by chance as he himself explains to us "I had previously met both Drew Gress and Ralph Alessi in occasional meetings in the context of jazz seminars in Siena and elsewhere. It is evident in the disc precisely this concertation of shared musical ideas where Claudio Fasoli's music from unitary becomes collective, developed in 13 songs having the Brooklyn neighborhood as the thematic center, which however, as Fasoli explains to us "are not a musical description of the places because music can and must above all be enough in itself, it must not describe a landscape but give an emotion" - and continues - "There are titles on the record that remind me of the moments I was on the Brooklyn Bridge, for example rather than in Shore Road and so on ... little flashes of details that thrilled me." But Claudio Fasoli's projects do not stop there, there are others even if they are not yet final "I am very intrigued by a rather chamber trio without drums with double bass and an extremely electronic guitar, I think this is a very interesting possibility. For example, I am curious to add another saxophonist to my trio without double bass, that is, the one with two saxophones, an electric guitar and drums. I also plan to meet Ralph Alessi and Drew Gress to re-propose the American quintet again., the curiosities are almost endless ... " ~ Extract by Paolo Marra, AAJ. [Translated from Italian]
Musica Jazz, MJCD 1289, 2015
Abeat Records, ABJZ206, 2019
Recorded 16th & 17th
November, 2014 at Artesuono Recording Studio, Cavalicco (UD) Italy
Musicians:
Claudio Fasoli - Tenor
Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Ralph Alessi - Trumpet
Matt Mitchell - Piano
Drew Gress - Double Bass
Nasheet Waits - Drums
Tracks:
01. Brooklyn Bridge Part 1
(1:16)
02. Brooklyn Bridge Part 2
(6:52)
03. Brooklyn Bridge Part 3
(1:20)
04. Carroll Gardens (2:44)
05. Bay Parkway (2:56)
06. Bam (5:50)
07. Mapletone (1:25)
08. Boerum Hill (7:18)
09. Neptune Avenue (3:48)
10. 7005 Shore Road (7:39)
11. Avenue M (5:56)
12. Dumbo (7:11)
13. Gowanus (3:47)
Total Time: 58:06
Credits:
Producer - Claudio Fasoli,
Luca Conti
Sound Engineer - Stefano
Amerio
