Sorgente Sonora [2CD]

Editor's info:
A restless devotee of many musical languages and the able organizer of musical performances, Eugenio Colombo has involved in this effort -- in addition to the director and the instrumentalists of the Band of Clusone -- several soloists intensely active in the world of jazz and experimental music: Antonio Balsamo, Ettore Fioravanti, Pino Minafra, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Luca Spagnoletti. The musical pieces composed by Eugenio Colombo explore and enhance the Band's quality of sound and expressive possibilities, even while paying homage to the cultural context and allowing the soloists to express themselves upon a richer musical fabric. The project was intended to confront the experience and the meaning of the Band's very existence (... to educate and delight...) through an original repertory strongly influenced by the world of jazz and by the European avant-garde. The pieces in Sonora Sorgente are basically performed in the manner of the historic "concerto grosso": the role of the so-called "concertino" (a group of soloists) is sustained by the improvisers and by that of the "whole" from within the body of the band itself. To give substance to this original project as conceived by Eugenio Colombo, the Associazione Clusone Jazz has furthered its production with the following personnel: Eugenio Colombo in the position of composer and artistic director of the event and the 50 members of the Banda Cittadina Giovanni Legrenzi of Clusone as performers of the entire repertory, with the enriched execution of the soloist improvisers. In addition to the 1988 tour and participation in the Europa Jazz Festival at Noci in 1989, the Sorgente Sonora project was recorded on a disc in Clusone on 30 April 1988 in collaboration with the Europe Jazz Network and RAI-Audio Box.