Puglia Sounds: Kekko Fornarelli Trio (I) at Opus Jazz Club

Featuring:

Kekko Fornarelli - piano
Giorgio Vendola - double bass
Dario Congedo - drums

“Fornarelli is a skilful instrumentalist with classical roots and a subtle improviser's mind”
John Fordham, The Guardian
“A near-perfect balance of tension and freedom. Fornarelli’s music has a pared-down yet catchy style that draws on his classical roots, with influences from pop to trip-hop to gospel”
Alison Gunn, Financial Times

A pianist and composer, Kekko Fornarelli has developed a unique style, characterized by the attempt to create music to observe, more than just to listen to it; a way to tell stories, transmit emotions and imagine situations. His music is a mellow combination of modern northern European ideas and neoclassical lyricism, filtered by his warm and extremely personal Mediterranean background. It is the attempt to create a more and more universal vision of music, able to draw jazz out of the narrow circuit of its appreciators and bringing it to the general audience. Eric Vloeimans, Flavio Boltro, Rosario Giuliani, Francesco Bearzatti, Benjamin Henocq, Jerome Regard, Manhu Roche, Luca Bulgarelli are only some of the artists he has shared ideas, sounds, life experiences and stages with....

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Featuring:

Kekko Fornarelli - piano
Giorgio Vendola - double bass
Dario Congedo - drums

“Fornarelli is a skilful instrumentalist with classical roots and a subtle improviser's mind”
John Fordham, The Guardian
“A near-perfect balance of tension and freedom. Fornarelli’s music has a pared-down yet catchy style that draws on his classical roots, with influences from pop to trip-hop to gospel”
Alison Gunn, Financial Times

A pianist and composer, Kekko Fornarelli has developed a unique style, characterized by the attempt to create music to observe, more than just to listen to it; a way to tell stories, transmit emotions and imagine situations. His music is a mellow combination of modern northern European ideas and neoclassical lyricism, filtered by his warm and extremely personal Mediterranean background. It is the attempt to create a more and more universal vision of music, able to draw jazz out of the narrow circuit of its appreciators and bringing it to the general audience. Eric Vloeimans, Flavio Boltro, Rosario Giuliani, Francesco Bearzatti, Benjamin Henocq, Jerome Regard, Manhu Roche, Luca Bulgarelli are only some of the artists he has shared ideas, sounds, life experiences and stages with.

His last work, Outrush, was released in March 2014. Together with his alchemic Trio featuring Giorgio Vendola on double bass and Dario Congedo on drums, Kekko Fornarelli draws his personal escape – outrush – into his own world, carrying jazz out of its borders and reaching the audience’s heart and stomach straight, just before touching its mind.

“An incredibly personal and introspective release that with the brilliance of Kekko's harmonic movement takes one to places that can touch your heart and set your hair on fire, often at the same time. Italy is a variable gold mine for improvisational music. Kekko Fornarelli is a master but more so, he is an artist” Brent Black, criticaljazz.com

Tickets are available for 1500 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket, at jegy.hu and here.

Please don't forget your table reservation, as seating at the Opus jazz Club can only be guaranteed in this case. Tel: (+36 1) 216 7894.

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