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Paolo Fresu, trumpet & fluegelhorn
Richard Galliano, accordion & bandoneon
Jan Lundgren, piano
Even not a lot of time ago this writer was part of that close legion of aficionados who considered that jazz was 4/4, trumpet, sax, bigbands, smoking clubs and a long etcetera of common places that constitute the image Jazz has constructed over itself.
But the years show you that the world is wider and wider and the things that you yesterday were condemning because its unorthodoxy or lack of revealed truth , today are nothing else but artistic honest, diverse and fruitful expressions.
Mare Nostrum is that, and is a lot more.
It is music simultaneously nostalgic, evocative, magic. And it is like a great sea, his sonorities have something of deeply and of abysmal, slightly aquatic where you can submerge. And as in the sea, one feels a restrained force, which expresses slightly but which allows to feel his immense power.
But the years show you that the world is wider and wider and the things that you yesterday were condemning because its unorthodoxy or lack of revealed truth , today are nothing else but artistic honest, diverse and fruitful expressions.
Mare Nostrum is that, and is a lot more.
It is music simultaneously nostalgic, evocative, magic. And it is like a great sea, his sonorities have something of deeply and of abysmal, slightly aquatic where you can submerge. And as in the sea, one feels a restrained force, which expresses slightly but which allows to feel his immense power.
