Corea, Chick & Stefano Bollani / Orvieto
Album: Orvieto   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Corea, Chick & Stefano Bollani   Added:Oct 2011
Label:Ecm Records (Jazz)  

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Add Date: 2011-10-16 Pull Date: 2011-12-18 Charts: Jazz
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Recent Airplay
1. Oct 23, 2015: Rebop
Jitterbug Waltz, Doralice
4. Dec 02, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Orvieto Improvisation No. 2 / Nardis
2. Dec 17, 2011: Frequency Jam
Orvieto Improvisation No. 1
5. Nov 29, 2011: Rebop
If I Should Lose You
3. Dec 16, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Tirititran
6. Nov 25, 2011: No Cover, No Minimum
Tirititran

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2011-10-15
CHICK COREA & STEFANO BOLLANI: Orvieto
ECM, 2011

MODERN JAZZ – Piano duets, recorded live at the Umbria Jazz Festival in 2010. Corea and Bollani, a very fine Italian player, make an elegant match in this rather cerebral set, playing an interesting mix of originals, bossa novas, jazz standards, and improvisations. The sound can be as intricate and fragile as spun glass, or flowing in a virtuoso stream. Either way, it’s beautiful music that compels close listening.

Try any track. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11

1. 4:12 – improvisation: delicate interplay emerges from abstract patterns
2. 6:16 – fragile start/end, falls gently into aching bossa melody, lively soloing
3. 4:24 – standard starts out chunky, gets cooking in solos, drifts home
4. 5:42 – perky, quirky Brazilian tune: enters from odd angle, flows in parallel
5. 7:30 – deconstructed standard prances in the snow, gets very playful
6. 6:06 – fractured waltz moves gingerly, poking, prodding and retreating
7. 8:45 – serious improv for 4:00, then slides into jabbing Miles Davis tune
8. 5:44 – gentle A.C. Jobim melody: bright, airy and calm
9. 7:11 – standard: leisurely pace, relatively spare but with embroidered edges
10. 6:51 – hand percussion on piano bodies sets up a light, dancing melody
11. 6:05 – well-known Corea tune in a peppy treatment, really gets rolling
12. 6:05 – straight-up two-piano blues, but with some extra frills

[ Fo ] - October 2011

Track Listing
1. Orvieto Improvisation No. 1   7. Orvieto Improvisation No. 2 / Nardis
2. Retrato Em Branco E Preto   8. Este Seu Olhar
3. If I Should Lose You   9. Darn That Dream
4. Doralice   10. Tirititran
5. Jitterbug Waltz   11. Armando's Rhumba
6. A Valsa Da Paula   12. Blues In F