Alfredo Ponissi – Bird Lives (2023) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Alfredo Ponissi – Bird Lives (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:01 minutes | 615 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Alfredo Ponissi was born in Turin on December 18, 1955. His career spans a span of thirty years, encompassing paths ranging from music – he is a composer and fluently plays all saxophones, flute, clarinet, piano, as well as being an excellent singer – to writing, poetry, screenwriting for theater and cinema. Ponissi began his artistic and professional activity in the Solar Big Band of Giorgio Gaslini in ‘ 81, participating in two shows on Monk and Ellington with Giorgio Albertazzi and Elisabetta Pozzi (over 60 dates) and playing for the major Italian theatrical bodies. Of ’84, his first album entitled” Don’t sa good good by In ’85 he gets a mention as best soloist at the” National Review of emerging groups” in Forli and is a finalist, with his own quartet, at the International Compet In 86-87 he recorded for Splash, with the altosaof neofOrkese musician Bob Porcelli, two Lps with the “011 quintazz quintet & se se tet”, “Bursting”, reported by the American magazine Cadence as the best album of the year and “Rising”. Mario Rusca and Flavio Boltro are also part of the group. In ‘ 87 he opened the international festival of “Ciak” in Milan playing as coleader with Boltro in a quintet including Paolino Della Porta, Antonio Faro and Manu Roche. In 89 he formed Trane’s Memory, a quartet dedicated to the music of Col In 89 he was part of Marcello Rosa’s “ass In the same period he also played for contemporary composers at the Aterforum festival in Ferrara (directed by Sergio Liberovici) and collaborated with light music musicians including Sergio Caputo and Francesco De Gregori. In ’94 he founded the association associazioneAzz Mobile and the related record label JAzz Mobile Records, for the dissemination, knowledge and advancement of music musica In ‘95 he released the CD ” A Love Supreme – A Tribute To Col In’96 he won with Trane’s Memory the “National Competition” of Baronissi and participated in the”Euro FestivalAzz Festival” of Ivrea and the “Cava Memor Since ‘ 97 he collaborates and plays at the Torino In ’99 he published “Gilgamesh” with the MobileAzz Mobile SaxOphone Ensemble, a formation he directed and performed with at the Gilgamesh Warehouse in Turin from ’97 to 2000. In the meantime, the NasceAzz Mobile Reunion Band was born,which sees artists from the scud In 2001, he released the CD “azz Lazmen ” with George Cables and Giulio Capiozzo and performed in Japan, collaborating with local artists and recording a CD with his brother Dario. In 2004 he published the CD ” Rem In 2005 he began a collaboration with “Arti e Mestieri”, a historical group of the Italian prog, with which he participated in the international festival “BaaPr He also recorded with Good Life a double CD,” The Good Life Sessions”, soon to be released. Also in 2005 another original project linked to the field of improvisation and experimentation started, a project whose source is Ponissi’s multi-instrumentalism: the open formation – sometimes trio sometimes quartet – “A. L. I” (Associazione Liberi Improvisatori) with ma Carl Carletti, Stefano Risso, Stefano solani, Davide Liberti ,imm In 2006 he went to Mexico again for a tour with Arti & Mestieri. He recorded with the Good Life Quartet the music for Moloch, a comic film based on his story, directed by Carola De Scipio and the voices of Lello Arena and Sara Onorato. Also with the GLQ he is a guest at Villa Cernigliaro of a reading with the poets Hir The unpublished novel ” The Dog of Adolphe Sa Sa In 2007 he was invited to Toko Alfredo Ponissi was for ten years teacher and coordinator at the Centro Torino Among his students: Emanuele Cisi, Paolo Porta, Fulvio Albano, Matteo Negrin, Luigi Martinale. and carries out an intense teaching activity with workshops and seminars in schools in the Province of Milan for the project “Music in didactics”. He has played with, among others, Roy Haynes, Greg Bissonette, Manu Roche, Lew Tabackin, Bob Porcelli, Jim Snidero, Bill Pearce, George Garzone, Tom Kirkpatrick, George Cables, John Donaldson, Tommy Campbell, Benny Bailey, Stepko “Steve” Gut.

Tracklist:

1-1. Alfredo Ponissi – Suite for Bird (06:48)
1-2. Alfredo Ponissi – Lover Man (11:05)
1-3. Alfredo Ponissi – Birdnet (08:49)
1-4. Alfredo Ponissi – Billie’s Bounce (08:24)
1-5. Alfredo Ponissi – Postludium Ars Amandi (10:59)
1-6. Alfredo Ponissi – Objects in The Mirror (06:53)

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