In maggiore Paolo Fresu & Daniele di Bonaventura

• 1 Da capo cadenza 03:01
• 2 Ton Kozh 05:37
• 3 o Que Será / el Pueblo Unido Jamàs Serà Vencido 06:10
• 4 Non ti scordar di me 03:55
• 5 Sketches 02:40
• 6 Apnea 03:08
• 7 Te Recuerdo Amanda 03:29
• 8 La mia terra 02:28
• 9 Kyrie Eleison 03:23
• 10 Quando me'n vò 04:12
• 11 Se va la murga 05:05
• 12 Calmo 01:58
• 13 In maggiore 02:23
• Total Runtime 47:29

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Sardinian-born trumpeter Paolo Fresu and bandoneonist Daniele di Bonaventura from Fermo, Italy, indicated the depth of their musical understanding on 2011's 'Mistico Mediterraneo', a collaboration with Corsican singers A Filetta. On 'In maggiore', left to their own resources, they explore a very broad range of material.

This includes original ballads by both players, improvisations, a theme from Puccini's La Boheme, liturgical music, pieces by legendary Chilean songwriter Victor Jara and Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jaime Roos, music of Neapolitan composer Ernersto de Curtis, 'O que sera' by Brazil's Chico Buarque and more.

Daniele Di Bonaventura has spent much of his creative life bringing aspects of jazz and music of South American traditions together, and Paolo Fresu is one of the outstanding lyrical voices of contemporary improvising. When Fresu plays muted trumpet, he makes a point of bringing Miles Davis to mind; at such moments, Di Bonaventura's bandoneon becomes a chamber orchestra behind a soloist.

The relationship between the instruments is continually changing throughout this attractive programme, recorded in the warm and spacious acoustics of Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in May 2014, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Paulo Fresu, a prolific recording artist, first appeared on ECM in collaboration with Ralph Towner on the acclaimed duo album 'Chiaroscuro' released in 2009 though he can also be heard on the ECM-distributed Watt label, performing with Carla Bley on the album 'The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu' (recorded 2007). Daniele di Bonaventura's ECM debut came on Miroslav Vitous's prize-winning 'Universal Syncopations II'.

Paolo Fresu, trumpet, flugelhorn
Daniele di Bonaventura, bandoneon

Paolo Fresu
from the island of Sardinia, which has its own great vocal tradition, could relate at once to the Corsican music with its “refined and archaic voices”, its mix of contemporary compositions and its attempt to hold fast to “melodies vanishing in the darkness of time”. He is one of the most highly regarded jazz musicians in Europe, and his ECM collaboration with Ralph Towner on “Chiaroscuro” (released in 2009), successful both with the critics and the public, figured in the quarterly list of Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Since 1990 when he swept the Music Jazz Polls, the trumpeter has been a multiple award winner.

Paolo Fresu has appeared on more than 300 albums, including leader dates for EMI, RCA and Blue Note. His first appearance in the neighbourhood of ECM came in 2007 when he played on – and indeed was the subject of – Carla Bley’s The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu, issued on the ECM-distributed WATT label. In 2009 he was heard in a duo collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner on Chiaroscuro. The Towner/Fresu duo has toured widely.

In addition to the Mistico Mediterraneo work with Fresu, bandoneonist Daniele di Bonaventura’s ECM credits include Miroslav Vitous’s Universal Syncopations II which won the German Critics Prize (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik) as Album of the Year 2007.

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