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Ed: VVJ – Millesuoni 2005
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LTC – Lussu – Tucci - Ciancaglini
Hikmet
1. Alex Pictures ![](http://www.jazzitalia.net/images/audiosmall.gif)
2. Love Theme From Spartacus
3. Round Town
4. Pigolio di Stelle ![](http://www.jazzitalia.net/images/audiosmall.gif)
5. Hikmet
6. In Ballo
7. Rain Girl
8. Skylark
Pietro Lussu - piano Lorenzo Tucci - drums Pietro Ciancaglini - double
bass Mark Turner - sax
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Supporting many of the well established soloists, and providing for the
very core of many quartets and quintets renowned in the Italian territory (not last
the group with
Fabrizio Bosso and Daniele Scannapieco), LTC is the
rhythm session that seals this album,
Hikmet – named after a
famous Turkish poet, writer and memorialist. It consists of three of the more active
jazz-players of their generation in the Italian scene: Pietro Lussu
on piano, Pietro Ciancaglini on double-bass and Lorenzo Tucci
on drums, that, in this occasion, take advantage of the presence of one of the overseas
sax-tenor players most appreciated here in Italy, Mark Turner.
The opening of the album is entrusted to a very involving medium-rhythm,
a compound cadence indeed, Alex
Pictures, written by the bassist, that also contains Lussu's smart
improvising interpretation. A very evocative
Spartacus movie theme,
which becomes so winding in Turner's narrative notes as to impregnate itself
with the cerebral and dragging musicality that the American saxplayer can create,
is preciously escorted by the perfect understanding of the three friends: mostly
on the medium range register of Lussu's piano – who could give more indeed –, light
but sonorous Tucci's sticks to stress the three movements variously, and
the deep double-bass of Ciancaglini that crafts the slow-down closing of
the piece. Tucci's sparkling accompaniment in
Round Town provides for
a brilliant performance, very punctual its rhythm figures, the solo of Lussu
is articulated. The delicate composition
Pigolio di stelle, by
Salvatore Bonafede
– Palermo piano player famous for his executive and compositional sensibility –,
is translated in act by the persuasive tenor of the American jazzman, who, however,
gives his best as the rhythm presses, allowing him to walk along the elegant harmonic
webbings of the piece. Lussu's contribution is sober, light and refined as
ever.
Very vibrative are Tucci's cymbals at the beginning of the tune
from which the CD takes its name, favoring Lussu's chords, for an intro that preludes
to the melodic intensity of the composition of the pianist himself, and of which
the saxophonist renders the thematic discontinuity skillfully, while emphasizing
the complex atmosphere of the tonal progressions. There is also space for a composite
but not for this reason less infectious Tucci's solo, who is nearly melodic
in his use of ride, crash, toms and snare. What in this debut record strikes is
the amalgam the trio is founded upon, as it is highlighted in the following two
numbers, In dance and
Rain Girl – both of
them to be listened to for the recitative of the double-bass, with its very round
and melodically structured sound –: an interplay being not a surprise at all, with
drums and double-bass attached for a long-time acquaintance, a piano that, albeit
with no breathtaking solos, is punctual in constructing the rhythm-harmonic lines
that act as a substrate for the evolutions of Turner (who is a very special
guest, showing he feels right at ease with the company). These "components" all
meet in Skylark, a standard, which constitutes
the worthy ending of a CD that, without too many shakes indeed, answers well to
our expectations of the four experienced protagonists.
Antonio Terzo for Jazzitalia
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Publishing Date: 29/04/2006
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