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| CARLA MARCIANO QUARTET Facebook Live SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020 AT 2 PM EST – 3 PM EST "She communicates on a personal level, taking advantage of her beautiful tone quality to "sing" lyrically with genuine passion and a powerful force, absorbing all the energy from the room and channeling it into an open space as would the eruption of a volcano." (Jim Santella, Cadence Magazine) Artist: CARLA MARCIANO QUARTET Title: PSYCHOSIS – HOMAGE TO BERNARD HERMANN Artist Website: www.carlamarciano.com https://www.challengerecords.com/products/15610227128703 US Promo Campaign Date: November 1, 2020 Label: Challenge Records Catalog Number: CR 73486 UPC Code: 0608917348620PSYCHOSIS Track listing 1. Theme from "Taxi Driver" (Betsy's Theme) 9:18 2. Theme from "Marnie" (Prelude) 11:31 3. From "Marnie" to "Twisted Nerve" 5:05 4. Theme from "Twisted Nerve" (Theme & Variations) 8:37 5. Theme from "Psycho" (Prelude) 9:18 6. Theme from "Vertigo" (Prelude) 5:23 7. Theme from "Vertigo" (Scene D'amour) 10:06 8. Homage to John Williams: Theme from "Harry Potter" (Hedwig's Theme) 9:46 TOTAL TIME: 69:08 Musicians: Carla Marciano - alto and sopranino saxophones, Alessandro La Corte - piano and keyboards, Aldo Vigorito - double bass, Gaetano Fasano - drums Italian saxophonist and composer Carla Marciano is considered by specialized critics among the best talents of European jazz and one of today's strongest female saxophonists.Graduated in clarinet from the Conservatory of her hometown, Salerno, she is an alto saxophone specialist, appreciated for her great passion and energy, her strong expressiveness, her advanced technique as well as her distinctive performing and compositional streak. She is also one of the leading experts of the rarely-used and hard-to-master sopranino saxophone. As leader of her stable quartet—made up of some of the best musicians on the Italian scene, namely Alessandro La Corte, Aldo Vigorito and Gaetano Fasano—she has four CDs under her belt, three of which were produced by the historic label Black Saint (whose catalog, highly appreciated in America, saw Marciano among the few Italian musicians to make the short list). This fifth CD "Psychosis—Homage to Bernard Herrmann", marks her debut with the prestigious Dutch label Challenge Records. From Carla Marciano: "This album is my heartfelt homage to one of the greatest geniuses of film score, the composer and conductor Bernard Herrmann, whose music has dazzled me since I was a child. It has been very interesting to arrange, revise and adapt, for a jazz quartet, some of the best known themes from outstanding soundtracks Herrmann wrote for equally outstanding films—all psychological thrillers (hence the title Psychosis)—by brilliant directors, including Marnie, Psycho and Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock, Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese and Twisted Nerve by Roy Boulting. Bearing a classic feel and originally conceived for orchestras, the tracks in this album were arranged in full respect of the originals, leaving intact, for example, the beauty of the melodies, while at the same time creating new improvisational spaces that would allow our quartet to maintain its own identity. This also gave us the opportunity to progress in a musical journey we embarked on starting with the first album (this is our fifth), and me, personally, to hold the course of my visceral, improvisational language, always instinctive and open to risk, an expression of my emotional, spiritual and existential self, baring my soul in absolute freedom through no compromise whatsoever, but rather driven by a strong desire for research and experimentation. I consider the emotions and stimulations generated in me by Herrmann's music, together with the films in which it's featured, a wonderful gift. I hope I have been able to thank him through our heartfelt work. The additional track is also dedicated to another great genius of film score, John Williams, who wrote the soundtrack for the famous movie saga Harry Potter, whose main theme was arranged by Alessandro." write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |