FALZONE Giovanni
Around Ornette

MPR 032 CD

8015948303443
Parco della Musica Records
Italia

 

Trumpeter and composer Giovanni Falzone began playing the trumpet at the Municipal Band School of Music in Aragona, at the age of 17. He then enrolled in the V. Bellini Conservatory in Palermo, where he graduated in a short period of time under the tutelage of G. Ciavarello. In addition, he graduated, with the highest honors, from the Jazz Studies Program (arranging, historical-formal analysis, and improvisation) at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He won first prize as "Best Talent at Umbria Jazz, 2000", earning a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, in Boston. He also participated as a soloist in a workshop/concert held by Wynton Marsalis at the Morlacchi Theater in Perugia, and in a modern-jazz seminar held by saxophonist Dave Liebman. After graduating from the conservatory studies, he filled the chair of first trumpet with the following orchestras: l'Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, il Teatro Lirico di Spoleto, l'Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, il Teatro G. Verdi di Trieste, il Teatro Comunale di Bologna, l'Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi, and l'Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia. Since 1996, he has played under the direction of world famous conductors and soloists such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Chailly, Yutaka Sado, Luciano Berio, Vladimir Jurowski, Valere Giergev, Salvatore Accardo, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. He has toured extensively with the Milan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Chailly, playing throughout Europe, South America and Japan. From 2004 he definitely devoted to jazz music and composition.
His new album, Around Ornette, is a tribute to Ornette Coleman, of the most important and controversial innovators of the jazz avant-garde. The album features four Coleman’s compositions and four tracks inspired by the great saxophone player. The album features Francesco Bearzatti on tenor sax and clarinet, Beppe Caruso on trombone, Paolino Dalla Porta on double bass and Zeno De Rossi on drums.
Around Ornette has won the “Best Album Award” in the Top Jazz 2011, the annual critics poll of Italian magazine Musica Jazz.


Trumpeter and composer Giovanni Falzone began playing the trumpet at the Municipal Band School of Music in Aragona, at the age of 17. He then enrolled in the V. Bellini Conservatory in Palermo, where he graduated in a short period of time under the tutelage of G. Ciavarello. In addition, he graduated, with the highest honors, from the Jazz Studies Program (arranging, historical-formal analysis, and improvisation) at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. He won first prize as "Best Talent at Umbria Jazz, 2000", earning a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, in Boston. He also participated as a soloist in a workshop/concert held by Wynton Marsalis at the Morlacchi Theater in Perugia, and in a modern-jazz seminar held by saxophonist Dave Liebman. After graduating from the conservatory studies, he filled the chair of first trumpet with the following orchestras: l'Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, il Teatro Lirico di Spoleto, l'Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, l'Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, il Teatro G. Verdi di Trieste, il Teatro Comunale di Bologna, l'Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi, and l'Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia. Since 1996, he has played under the direction of world famous conductors and soloists such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Chailly, Yutaka Sado, Luciano Berio, Vladimir Jurowski, Valere Giergev, Salvatore Accardo, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. He has toured extensively with the Milan Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Chailly, playing throughout Europe, South America and Japan. From 2004 he definitely devoted to jazz music and composition.
His new album, Around Ornette, is a tribute to Ornette Coleman, of the most important and controversial innovators of the jazz avant-garde. The album features four Coleman’s compositions and four tracks inspired by the great saxophone player. The album features Francesco Bearzatti on tenor sax and clarinet, Beppe Caruso on trombone, Paolino Dalla Porta on double bass and Zeno De Rossi on drums.
Around Ornette has won the “Best Album Award” in the Top Jazz 2011, the annual critics poll of Italian magazine Musica Jazz.





“The first time I listened to Ornette Coleman, to the Free Jazz album, I wasn’t particularly taken. The spontaneity of that recording in double quartet didn’t immediately reach out to me but I became curious.
I realized that I had not approached that musician like I should have, so I started collecting all his albums published before Free Jazz: I discovered an incredible world made of visionary lyricism that had the power to enchant me at each listening. I fell in love with Ornette’s musical vision to the point that I decided to dedicate to him my graduate thesis for the Jazz Course at the Conservatory of Milan, that I was finishing exactly at that time. Ten years have passed and since then my desire to dedicate an entire album to Ornette’s geniality has grown.
I have played for years in a symphonic orchestra and I have been lucky to be able to absorb many different sounds, especially from the music of the nineteen hundred to which Ornette has contributed in a very important way. This is why I wanted my tribute to embrace jazz, music from both historical and contemporary nineteen hundred and all those musical forms that have followed on.
The sonorous frame of Around Ornette develops in eight movements: four tracks of Coleman: Blues Connotation, Lonely Woman, Congeniality and Free – entwined with four of my compositions - Fuga Mentale, Ornette, King Of The Free and Bourbon Street – the latter is dedicated to New Orleans and to the strong bond with blues that I have always been aware of in Ornette’s sound.
It’s not a coincidence that the recording begins and ends with two highly traditionally inspired tracks, even if seeped through a contemporary language: if it’s true that everything has a root, then that’s where I want to start to define my own personal journey.
I consider Ornette Coleman an absolute leader of modern jazz and this album is my personal acknowledgement to a musician that with his freedom of expression was able to make jazz even more infinite”.

Giovanni Falzone