Ada Montellanico quartet
Tribute to Billie Holiday
Ada Montellanico voice
Enrico Zanisi piano
Jacopo Ferrazza double bass
Ermanno Baron drums
Remember American Lessons? If Italo Calvino had been a jazz fan, he would certainly have celebrated Ada Montellanico as the unsurpassed champion of “”lightness””. In fact, there is no more pertinent word to define his record tribute to Billie Holiday, now re-proposed in concert.
A performance with a dual aesthetic and emotional value, to remember the immeasurable genius of Lady Day.
A tribute conducted with empathy, introspection and creativity, to establish an intimate and confidential relationship with the standards, digging deeply into the rhythmic and harmonic roots and infusing new light into them....
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Ada Montellanico quartet
Tribute to Billie Holiday
Ada Montellanico voice
Enrico Zanisi piano
Jacopo Ferrazza double bass
Ermanno Baron drums
Remember American Lessons? If Italo Calvino had been a jazz fan, he would certainly have celebrated Ada Montellanico as the unsurpassed champion of “”lightness””. In fact, there is no more pertinent word to define his record tribute to Billie Holiday, now re-proposed in concert.
A performance with a dual aesthetic and emotional value, to remember the immeasurable genius of Lady Day.
A tribute conducted with empathy, introspection and creativity, to establish an intimate and confidential relationship with the standards, digging deeply into the rhythmic and harmonic roots and infusing new light into them.
A thoughtful research on Holiday’s biography informs him to see a changing cornucopia of moods: deep and vulnerable joys, bitter disillusions, lost and ephemeral dreams, updated by a recreational game aimed at subtle, wise variation.
As an added value, the vibrant, warm expressiveness of Montellanico, which in concert performances summarizes the best essence of jazz .: communicative, swing, ability to transmit deep emotions, enclosed in the unrepeatable moment of aphoristic vocal games.
A lot of vocal (density, modulation) and musical wisdom, at the service of a beautifully throbbing heart. An imaginative artist, with a warm, relaxed and colloquial voice, which makes appearing simple and natural (texts, music) what is not really easy, to the delight of those who expect unconventional paths from music.
A vocalist who flies high along unexplored territories of texts and music that are ever current, where life is sung in its various nuances: love, melancholy, the bewilderment of a moment, relived with the sensitivity of an artist at 360 degrees of the third millennium which is Ada Montellanico.
Accompanying her in this unmissable set, where new songs will be performed with respect to the discographic tribute released to L’Espresso for the series of “”Italian Jazz””, there will be her quartet formed by the most important musicians of the current Italian scene: Enrico Zanisi on piano, Jacopo Ferrazza on double bass and Ermanno Baron on drums.
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