Description
Cat#:
Format: CD / ALBCD-024
ARTIST: Max Ionata Quartet
TITLE: Inspiration Live
JAN: 4560312310243
Lineup:
Max Ionata (tenor & soprano sax)
Luca Mannutza (piano)
Giuseppe Bassi (double bass)
Nicola Angelucci (drums)
Rec data:
Recorded at Ueffilo Music Club, Gioia Del Colle (BA) Italy, on January 13th, 2013
Recording engineer: Leo Zagariello
Mix & mastering engineer: Antonio Di Donato
Cover photo [C] Umberto Germinale – Phocus Agency
Back and inside photo [C] Pierluigi Giorgi
Max Ionata plays L. A. Ripamonti custom VI tenor saxophone
www.laripamonti.com
Voices
Brilliant work from saxophonist Max Ionata – one of our favorite musicians on the Italian scene in recent years – and a player who does a wonderful job of mixing the contemporary with the classic! The album’s steeped in older hardbop modes – especially when Max is on tenor – but the overall phrasing and swing of the set picks up some modern elements too – some of the wonderful colors and richer lyricism that you’ll find in the best Italian musicians – and just a touch of snapping rhythm at the right points, showing some of these players’ link to the world of Schema. Ionata plays both tenor and soprano sax – and the quartet features Luca Mannutza on piano, Giuseppe Bassi on bass, and Nicola Angelucci on drums. Titles include the originals “I Hope I Wish”, “Blue Art”, “ESC”, and “Aurora” – plus “Luiza” and “When Will The Blues Leave”. © 1996-2015, Dusty Groove, Inc.
Best Sound／オーディオ評論家が選ぶ優秀録音盤 #7
イタリアのテナー、ソプラノ・サックス奏者マックス・イオナータのイタリア「Ueffilo Music Club」におけるライヴ録音。ピアノ・トリオがバックのワンホーンということでイオナータの歌心たっぷりの太いサックスが存分に楽しめる。（田中伊佐資）
いまやイタリアを代表するテナー・サックス奏者になったイオナータによるご機嫌なワン・ホーン・カルテット作品。軽やかに飛翔するフレーズでありながら演奏は重厚。聴きごたえ満点の内容に充実が感じられる。モダン・ジャズの魅力がいっぱいの快作だ。
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