Rosalba Lazzarotto Double Piano Orchestra

Double rainbow is an original project by Rosalba Lazzarotto, inspired to Sicilian atmospheric phenomena, myths and traditional legends. The author’s orchestral wide-ranging search resulted in the use of a set-up that is unusual in contemporary jazz. Abandoning the traditional rhythmic (piano, contrabass, percussions), the harmonic and rhythmic support is in fact entrusted to two pianos that intervene simultaneously, characterising the music with unusual elements thanks precisely to the different timbres. The contrabass is added, and its robust expressivity is exalted by the frequent use of strings. On this backdrop the voice and the trumpet stand out, interwoven in a close dialogue both during the exposition of themes and when improvising. Double rainbow, published by Wide Sound with images of work by the painter and sculptress Maria Rando, has as a guest star Salvatore Bonafede, a musician from Palermo who has worked at length in the USA, where he performed and recorded with Paul Motian, Billy Hart, Tom Harrel and Joe Lovano, who merges the culture acquired overseas with his own island roots in an extremely evocative expressive style.

sunday february 17th 2008 at 6 p.m.
The Savio Theatre

ROSALBA LAZZAROTTO
DOUBLE PIANO ORCHESTRA


«DOUBLE RAINBOW»


ROSALBA LAZZAROTTO
Fly
Double rainbow
Turning around
Vanishing
I’ te vurria vasà
(russo-Di Capua, arr. Rosalba Lazzarotto)
Scilla e Cariddi
Haga
Close the door
… Another fly

vocalist Rosalba Lazzarotto
piano I Salvatore Bonafede
piano II Luciano Troja
trumpet, flugelhorn Samuele Garofoli
contra bass Gabriele Pesaresi