Max De Aloe Quartet presents "Lirico incanto"

Max De Aloe, chromatic harmonica
Roberto Olzer, piano
Marco Mistrangelo, double bass
Nicola Stranieri, drums

Max De Aloe has recently been defined "the most requested and active Italian harmonicist" by "Jazz Magazine", while on the prestigious website Hollywood-Miyuki of Tokio this Italian musician is quoted among the 25 most significant jazz harmonicists worldwide. With five albums as a leader and more than a dozen as sideman in record shops everywhere, but also solo shows, composition of documentary film and theatre scores, Max De Aloe has worked with, among countless others, Adam Nussbaum, Mike Melillo, Thilo Wagner, Don Friedman, Garrison Fewell, Greg Burk, Bibi Rover, Franco Cerri, Renato Sellani, Gianni Coscia, Gianni Basso, Dado Moroni, Bebo Ferra, Barbara Casini and Umberto Petrin.
With his newest project entitled "Lirico incanto", which is also featured on CD, the harmonicist and his quartet reinterpret known opera arias: music which disorients, but fascinates at the same time, striving for a personal point of view on the interpretation of melodies by Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo. A crossover project with the potential to surprise both radical melodists and down-right jazz fans, which in reality features both a passionate and modern take on opera music which also appeals to an average audience.
In the liner notes of "Lirico incanto", Paolo Fresu writes:
“Max De Aloe has understood that jazz and opera are tied together by that thin thread made of history and culture, of migrations and parlances that united the continents well before trumpets and saxophones invaded the streets of New Orleans. For this, together with his companions on this stupendous musical journey, he grasped in the beautiful melodies of Leoncavallo, Verdi and Puccini the essence of a music that sets out, as always, to speak to the world of an alive and dynamic humanity. Humanity that has carried music beyond the Italian borders and that today sends it back to us filled with echoes and reverberations of America.  lirico incanto is music as limpid as air. It is exquisite and coherent music that smacks of lyricism and melody, the same that for several centuries has magnificently represented what we are beyond genres and styles”.

Max De Aloe - Bill Carrothers Duet

A very peculiar duet joining max de aloe’s chromatic harmonica and the piano played by bill carrothers , one of the most interesting  american jazz players of our times.
This duet will record a cd together in january 2009.
Within their repertoire both some jazz standards reinterpreted according to their own sensitivity and original musics proposely composed for the cd , inspired by a few of the novels written by haruki murakami, a famous japanese author.

Bill Carrothers has been a professional pianist for over 20 years. He has played many venues throughout the U.S. and Europe including the Village Gate, Knitting Factory, Birdland, Blues Alley, New Morning (Paris), the Audi Jazz Festival in Brussels, the Nevers Jazz Festival (where he shared the bill with Abbey Lincoln), the Montreal Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, and the Marciac Festival in France. In October of 2000, Mr. Carrothers headlined the prestigious Rising Star Tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He has been a leader on fourteen recordings, all of which have received critical acclaim. His sideman credits have included some of the greatest names in jazz, including Joe Beck, Scott Colley, Buddy DeFranco, Dave Douglas, Curtis Fuller, Eric Gravatt, Drew Gress, Tim Hagans, Billy Higgins, Lee Konitz, James Moody, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Gary Peacock, Dewey Redman, Charlie Rouse, James Spaulding, Bill Stewart, Ira Sullivan, Toots Thielemans, Mark Turner, and Benny Wallace.
Awards: Armistice 1918 - Charles Cros Award - 2004; Bill Carrothers - Duets with Bill Stewart: Winner of the French Diapason d'Or de l'annee; Winner of a German Schallplatten Preis; A Top 10 disc of 1999 in Jazzman Magazine; After Hours: Top 10 Disc of 1999 (Jazz Magazine); The Language of Crows: Top 10 Disc of 1999 (Jazz Magazine).

Q3 featuring Max De Aloe play
Nanook of the North

An original soundtrack performed live to the 1922 robert flaherty silent film nanook of the north the hard daily life of an eskimo and his family is portrayed over four seasons in the hudson bay area. this film is considered to be the first example of documentary cinematography, earning worldwide success and influencing subsequent filmmakers. read more.

max de aloe_chromatic harmonicas, live electronics, rhodes el. piano, accordeon, acoustic piano;
simon quinn_double bass, rhodes el. piano, samples;
brian quinn_drums, vibraphone, percussion
robert flaherty_direction, screenplay, photography, editing;
stanley silverman_original soundtrack;
revillon frères_production

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