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| "Mission Formosa" - Mission Formosa AlfaMusic presenta: "Mission Formosa" - Mission Formosa Shen-Yu Su tenor sax Gaetano Partipilo alto sax Francesco Lento trumpet Yu-Ying Hsu piano Giuseppe Bassi double bass Kuan Liang Lin drums Produced by: Mission Formosa for AlfaMusic Label&Publishing Production supervisor: Fabrizio Salvatore The sense of the group, meaning, the sense of jazz. Who loses sight of this axiom betrays the spirit of jazz. It is this shared feeling that coagulates the six musicians of Mission Formosa; three of which are between the best Italian jazz players, and not the usual ones and three are T aiwanese, to be discovered and listened to carefully. The captain clothes are worn by Giuseppe Bassi, who is a jazz connoisseur and has granted his gritty and intense bass lines to the elite of jazz world. Bassi is the leader then, but thanks to his innate moderation, he's never intrusive; so much so that the quintet expresses itself with natural freshness and each component proves leading qualities. In short, this is a group with a clear goal: to disintegrate any social and geographical difference. A kind of task perfect for jazz, more than for any other music. The Mediterranean warmth (Bassi and Gaetano Partipilo come from Puglia, Francesco Lento is Sardinian) meets the kicking technique and the passion that Taiwan shows for Afro-American accents in music. So after many highly successful live concerts, Bassi & Co. enclosed in the aluminum casket their past and their future, twelve songs for you to realize how jazz is still alive and well. A firm and clear s ound directed to the future, well aware of its glorious past. So the sextet weaves a melodic and intense texture, on which arises a robust architecture made of synergies. "At 3:09 AM, A Dream" by pianist YuYing Hsu, is the right label for a product that does not care about borders, but only about making beautiful music; this song bears the seal of Partipilo's solo, which opposes diatonicism and chromaticism, sprinkling them with melodic-harmonic slips. It also bears the mark of the tenor saxophonist ShenYu Su, who is able to embed a towering crescendo with a silver sound and structure it with circular breathing. It is the ensemble though to dominate all the music, even in the night lights designed by Bassi in "My Life Express"; this time is Francesco Lento to excel: the phrasing breathes in crystal and clear intonation and is very precise on the attacks. The sextet surprises with its orchestral voice, proof being the tipsy big band asymmetrical sound o f "Monster's Kiss"(Hsu), which borrows a good old swing and even some free figures from the past; but also the lively "Tranquil Street" signed by ShenYu Su. "After Typhoon" plays on a velvet carpet and one immediately realizes it is signed by drummer KuanLiang Lin, as the sounds and the rhythms are combined masterfully, thanks to a drumming in a state of permanent chorus. "I Know You Know" by Giuseppe Bassi is airy and easy to follow; a tune made intense by the bass harsh sounds which are inserted in sentences of particular harmonic richness. Bassi's large and massive strings open the taiwanese national monument "The Olive Tree" arranged by the pianist and composer Yu-Wen Peng. The ministry is in the hands of YuYing Hsu and her modern non-invasive pianism, always careful in creating both a rhythmic web and a harmonic texture made of thin and sustained notes. Her personal taste for classical harmonic variations and a lively use of the right hand remarks Su's "PSC 49" . The link with the past comes out in the soft ballad "A Song For You, In April" by YuYing Hsu, as in in the minor blues "Zhong Kui blues" (Bassi) with saxophones throwing each other notes with an almost forgotten skill. This recall of the past is also present in "Swingin' At The Heaven" by Ellis Marsalis, the only standard in the cd, where the smiling ghost of Bix Beiderbecke seems to peep thanks to Lento's brass. The circle closes with the gentle caress of "Song For My Mother" by YuYing Hsu. Mission Formosa blends the times of past and future of jazz with rare candor. Alceste Ayroldi Cd Track List MISSION FORMOSA 1 At 3.09 a.m., a Dream 9'22 2 My Life Express 5'19 3 Mostro's Kiss 2'48 4 After Typhoon 5'30 5 I Know You Know 6'01 6 The Olive Tre e 8'03 7 Tranquil Street 5'15 8 P.S.C. 49 6'16 9 A Song for my Mother 4'40 10 Zhong Kui Blues 6'25 11 Swingin' at the Heaven 4'47 12 A Song for You in April 4'57 Total Time 69'53 Music composed by: Giuseppe Bassi ② ⑤ ⑩ YuYing Hsu & Giuseppe Bassi ① ③ ⑨ ⑫ Shen Yu Su & Giuseppe Bassi ⑦ ⑧ Kuan Liang Lin & Giuseppe Bassi ④ Tai Xiang Li ⑥ (arranged by YuWen Peng) Ellis Marsalis ⑪ Publishing: AlfaMusic Studio (Siae) except ② (Crepuscule Ed. Mus.), ⑥ and ⑪ write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |