OTTOLINI Mauro
Bix Factor

MPR041

8015948304426
Parco della Musica Records
Italia

 

A concept album, dedicated to the music from the Twenties and the Thirties, a double cd with 20 tracks that become the soundtrack of a fantasy story whose main characters are the protagonists of the time who relive in the musicians of our time. The words of the story and the music blend in this project, unique in jazz. Only a handful of musicians will be able to save us... In the album are tracks from the jazz repertoire from the Twenties and the mid-Thirties.
Mauro Ottolini is one of the most important musicians of the new Italian jazz scene. After leaving the Arena di Verona orchestra to pursue his jazz career, he has quickly established himself as an inventive and surprising musician. Ottolini expresses his eclectic talent as a composer and arranger not only for his own projects, but also for other important jazz, rock, pop and avant-garde artists.


Mauro Ottolini is one of the most important musicians of the new Italian jazz scene. After leaving the Arena di Verona orchestra to pursue his jazz career, he has quickly established himself as an inventive and surprising musician. Born in Bussolengo (Verona) in 1972, he graduated in trombone at the Conservatory of Verona. Then he studied with Michel Bequet and for a short time in Los Angeles with Bill Booth. In 2002 he graduated in Jazz at the Conservatory of Trento with the maestro Franco D Andrea and studied with the great trombonist Steve Turre. He played and recorded with Frank Lacy, Trilok Gurtu, Kenny Wheeler, Han Bennink, Carla Blay, Steve Swallow, Tony Scott, Maria Schneider, Gary Valente. Ottolini expresses his eclectic talent as a composer and arranger not only for his own projects, but also for other important jazz, rock, pop and avant-garde artists. Moreover Ottolini is the leader of many musical projects that develop into conceptual works which involve other art forms. For example the cartoon “Working Man Blues”, winner of numerous awards, and the short novel "Bix Factor", written in collaboration with Vanessa Tagliabue and included in his new CD.

Parco della Musica Records presents "Bix Factor", the new project of the musician by Mauro Ottolini and his ensemble Sousaphonix. A concept album, dedicated to the music from the Twenties and the Thirties, a double cd with 20 tracks that become the soundtrack of a fantasy story whose main characters are the protagonists of the time who relive in the musicians of our time. The words of the story and the music blend in this project, unique in jazz . A movie in music and words or an "invisible film" that takes the listener through a true time travel pulling him in this adventure that starts with a terrible epidemic that threatens today's modern world. Only a handful of musicians will be able to save us... In the album are tracks from the jazz repertoire from the Twenties and the mid-Thirties, with music from the traditions of Chicago and New Orleans that no one in Italy has ever recorded, and also some original tracks and the second movement of Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concert.