BRAG Trio, Special Guest: Susanna Stivali
Alberto Giraldi, Piano & Composer
Stefano Rossini, Drums
Stefano Cantarano, Ac. Bass
Susanna Stivali, Vocals
My trip to Brazil to hold a masterclass and a concert at the University Center of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, coincided with seeing, after many years, my drummer and percussionist friend Stefano Rossini. With a certain discretion – typical of his gentle way of being and doing – Stefano suggests that I form a trio of Brazilian music. Case or harbinger of coincidence: what do I do? I immediately answer yes, and with enthusiasm! We have chosen a number of famous songs, but my pen has not been able to cope with the impulse that has always animated me – that of writing – and I have tested the first two original songs. Stefano was impressed. So I, mindful of Alberto Sordi’s famous phrase: “”You provoked me and I me te magno!””, I didn’t take time to give in to flattery and I quickly completed a whole repertoire of original songs, in Brazilian Brazilian style. Experimenting with Samba, Bajao, Choro, Bossa Nova, finding ideas and ideas that have sparked new perspectives in me, in practice – that of writing “”à la manière de”” – which since the nineteenth century has stimulated several famous predecessors ....
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BRAG Trio, Special Guest: Susanna Stivali
Alberto Giraldi, Piano & Composer
Stefano Rossini, Drums
Stefano Cantarano, Ac. Bass
Susanna Stivali, Vocals
My trip to Brazil to hold a masterclass and a concert at the University Center of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, coincided with seeing, after many years, my drummer and percussionist friend Stefano Rossini. With a certain discretion – typical of his gentle way of being and doing – Stefano suggests that I form a trio of Brazilian music. Case or harbinger of coincidence: what do I do? I immediately answer yes, and with enthusiasm! We have chosen a number of famous songs, but my pen has not been able to cope with the impulse that has always animated me – that of writing – and I have tested the first two original songs. Stefano was impressed. So I, mindful of Alberto Sordi’s famous phrase: “”You provoked me and I me te magno!””, I didn’t take time to give in to flattery and I quickly completed a whole repertoire of original songs, in Brazilian Brazilian style. Experimenting with Samba, Bajao, Choro, Bossa Nova, finding ideas and ideas that have sparked new perspectives in me, in practice – that of writing “”à la manière de”” – which since the nineteenth century has stimulated several famous predecessors .
Brazilian music is a feast of impulses, with its syncopations to suspend time, rhythmic artifices that postpone a beat promised and achieved several times only here and there; it is a feast of sensuality, with its supports, its colors, its harmonies which, married to the jazz fabric, open unusual paths, yet so familiar and communicative.
When Stefano Cantarano also pronounced the fateful “”yes””, BRAG Trio was born, an acronym that mixes Brazil with my initials, from an idea by Stefano Rossini. Stefano gave and continues to give enthusiasm to this project and I collect with equal enthusiasm, and I have the feeling that BRAG Trio is a promise only at the beginning, which hides who knows what other results, pursued with love for the challenges and for the research .
In short, BRAG Trio is all this: an expression of vitality and the joy of making Music, honoring the spirit of a people – the Brazilian one – who has given and gives so much to musical art, and continuing the spirit of our people – the Italian one – which has always excelled in the search for connections, geographic, cultural and artistic connections.”
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