"Ahhh" and "Ohhhs" like a beautiful fireworks

So far I presented Bollani a very broad spectrum of his music through very different projects. I can think of at this point: The collaboration with Chick Corea, the cooperation with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, classical jazz trio (Album Stone in the water), or the setting or resurrection of the orchestra on the Titanic with traditional pieces on the day of the daytime selbiger. Obviously Bollani has no fear of contact with different formations. Perhaps originated from this attitude now a concert with a mandolin player.

We get to hear a recording of the performance of the duo at the jazz festival in Antwerp from August 2012. Label boss Manfred Eicher personally acts as producer of the album.

We will put forward a total of 10 pieces. After a quiet, almost romantic a seemingly Intro (Beatrix) followed by a bang with the piece il barbone di Siviglia written by Stefano Bollani, which I would like to take a little more detail. As soon as you the ostinato of the left hand received (a strong tribute to Keith Jarrett) both musicians start your melody lines. This goodbye rather quickly from with respect to the basic key, partly in breathtaking speed setting. Always find the musicians then back to the correct number of cycles of the aforementioned Vamps. This takes a few bars, then follow 15-20 citations to one or other jazz standard or its harmonic progression. Long enough to recognize and short enough to deliver the same to the next. After 6 minutes, this medley masterpiece is (unfortunately) an end. You can feel when resounds with the breathlessness of the audience, followed by the final chord, a total silence and then a frentischer and tempered applause.

Both musicians do at the following numbers well advised to follow an idea less complexity in the titles. The mandolin player not takes command but we heard clear echoes of Latin, the mandolin is the traditional Brazilian music an important tool. Hamilton de Holanda plays the instrument in a 10-string version.

A big plus of this recording represents the unusual timbre of these two instruments in interaction. De Holanda leads repeatedly to prove that its played mandolin is an absolutely full-fledged melodic instrument. The musical salute to Django Reinhardt in which song Guarda che luna should not remain anonymous at this point. Here is celebrated hot Gipsy Jazz, the swings properly.

I am very spoiled by the ECM catalog. This label marketing demanding music has taken up the cause. This is achieved with this opus again impressively. The previous speakers have repeatedly referred to the notion of fireworks for their impressions of this album. This is correct, but we often find ourselves in a fireworks enraptured Ahh and Ohhhs to give of ourselves. Something similar happened to me while listening to O Que Sera.