Gianluigi Trovesi: L’Infanta Arcibizzarra/Crisbell

Track

L’Infanta Arcibizzarra/Crisbell

Artist

Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet, alto sax)

CD

Round About A Midsummer’s Dream (Enja 9384-2)

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Musicians:

Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinet, alto sax), Paolo Manzolini (guitar), Fulvio Maras (drums), Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion), Renaud Garcia-Fons (bass),

Carlo Rizzo (tamburello, voice), Stefano Montanari, Stefania Trovesi (violin), Paolo Ballanti (cello)

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Recorded: July 1999, Germany

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Rating: 88/100 (learn more)

Gianluigi Trovesi argued that if Duke Ellington could be influenced by the sights and sounds of Harlem, then he could be influenced by his beloved home town of Bergamo in Italy. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bottom asks, “Will it please you…to hear a bergamask dance?” The Italian bergamasca is a dance that originated in Bergamo in 16th century. It’s all Trovesi needed to inspire this dizzying Midsummer fantasia where Italian folk dances and Renaissance variations provide a stimulus for improvisation, not as they did five hundred years ago, but refracted through the prism of jazz.

Reviewer: Stuart Nicholson

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