Artist: Marco Zurzolo Band
Album: 7 e mezzo
Genre: World Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
Label: Egea
Released: 2005
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Torno a sud (Zurzolo) - 4:27
- Cinque e un po' (Zurzolo) - 4:08
- E duje piscature (Zurzolo) - 4:40
- Vient 'e mare (Zurzolo) - 4:56
- Sette e mezzo... (Zurzolo) - 3:35
- Napoletana a coppe (Zurzolo-Tafuto) - 4:19
- Notte a Bayamo (Zurzolo) - 4:45
- Rosso Pomigliano (Zurzolo) - 4:00
- Sofia (Zurzolo) - 4:54
- ...E sto bbene (Zurzolo) - 4:03
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- Personnel:
- Marco Zurzolo - alto saxophone
- Vittorio Riva - drums, percussion
- Carlo Fimiani - guitar
- Giuseppe Timbro - double bass
- Alessandro Tedesco - trombone
- Erasmo Petringa - cello, oud
- Claudia La Gatta - cello (#8-10)
- Gabriella Grossi - baritone saxophone
with guests: - Marc Johnson - double bass (#1,4,7-9)
- Gabriele Mirabassi - clarinet
Marco Zurzolo recounts in the liner notes: “On a winter night in 2003 (...) to try to put my daughter, who had been born a few days before, to sleep, who (...) showed no inclination to sleep, (...) I sat down at the piano and played her a few notes that little by little became her lullaby and she finally fell asleep.”
That melody, sweet and meandering, became the theme of the first track that opens the CD and represents a bit of a turning point in Zurzolo's musical quest. While continuing his reconnaissance work on Neapolitan folk music begun with “Ex voto” and continued with “Napoli ventre del Sud” and “Pulcinella,” in “7 e mezzo” there is a new, more intimate and romantic air. There is a melodic breath, an affabulatory pacing that at times produces effects of estranging beauty. Who knows, maybe, as they say, the birth of a child changes your life, smoothes the corners, makes you see things from another angle. It softens you.
And yet, despite an incantatory proceeding, (at times - and this is a risk - moved by an almost spasmodic search for melodic discourse) Zurzolo's band does not give up rhythm and improvisational verve. Each song seems to live by its own light, seems to tell stories, whether of children (“Torno a Sud,” “Sofia”), of the elderly (“7 e mezzo,” “Napoletana a coppa”), of metropolitan life (“Notte a Bayamo”). It is always Naples that returns, a city of a thousand faces, beautiful, full of charm but also difficult to live in.
Perfectly embedded in the project are the musicians, including guest Marc Johnson, now fully in tune with the musical aesthetic of Egea's home.