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Recensioni / Reviews:
Enrico Fazio - Live in Milano (Villa Litta)
Enrico Fazio - Zapping!
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Musica Jazz - giugno 2003:
Dischi Scelti 
ENRICO FAZIO: "Zapping!":
Sette,
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 / Wake Up! / Walkabout / Ciao jack! /lKitsch /
Igor / Aria pura / Libellula obesa / In vino veritas.
Fabrizio Bosso
(tr., flic.), Gianpiero Malfatto (trne), Francesco Aroni Vigone (sop.,
alto), Carlo Actis Dato (ten., bar., cl. b.), Angelina Perrotta (viol.),
Enrico Fazio (cb.), Fiorenzo Sordini (batt., marimba, perc.); Alberto
Mandarini (tr., flic.) sost. Bosso nei tit. V, VI, IX. Loc. scon., 17 e
18-6-01, 29 e 30-4-02. LEO LR 372,
distr. lrd.
Fazio firma un'opera matura, avvincente, alla testa di
un settetto che presenta una precisa impostazione orchestrale. L'idea
predominante è quella dì un riciclaggio rigenerante ed euforico di
svariati materiali: il ricorso alla citazione è sistematico (sono
innumerevoli gli accenni a famosi motivi dei più disparati generi
musicali), ma queste citazioni sono fugaci, mai insistite, e soprattutto
vengono ammantate da sapienti arrangiamenti.
Anche i modelli di riferimento sono svariati e
dimostrano una mìrata scelta di campo. Di volta in volta riaffiorano le
movenze di Mingus o dell'Aeoc, della Liberation Music Orchestra,
dell'Icp Orchestra o della Brootherhood Of Breath, e perfino le
sofisticate trame della Vienna Art Orchestra. li tutto viene però
rielaborato con una vitalità esuberante e un po' scanzonata, con uno
spirito visionario, forse non del tutto nuovo, ma carico di una densa e
genuina partecipazione. Solo a tratti emerge quel sarcasmo tanto caro
all'avanguardia torinese. L'ampia e attenta preordinazione permette al
leader di dipingere un affresco imponente e movimentato, ma unitario.
Della complessa elaborazione orchestrale viene data
un'inter pretazione palpitante. A tale proposito sono numerosi gli
spunti solistici notevoli: in primo luogo quelli perentori e abrasivi di
Actis Dato, ma anche quelli dinamici di Aroni Vigone, quelli crepitanti
e materici di Malfatto, quelli vibranti dei due trombettisti. L'ultimo
brano, lungo e articolato, offre una sorpresa dietro l'altra e può
rappresentare la sintesi dell'intero Cd: la definitiva esplicitazione
della concezione che lo permea.
Libero
Farnè
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ENRICO FAZIO SEPTET : Zapping ! (Leo Records. LR
372) - Topic CD Reviews - Date: 2003, August 09
I'd just been listening to Gianluigi Trovesi's Ottetto
and thinking what great jazz comes out of Italy when this appeared. The
recording is sub-titled 'a recycling project’ by which Fazio means he
has sampled selections from many styles of music and re-used them out of
context. Not sampled in the sense of merely lifted from one recording
and spliced into another though. Whatever the method, the results are
quite stunning. Although it says it's a septet l've counted eight people
here, playing trumpet, trombone, flute, various saxes, violin, bass and
drums. And what they play is a vigorous, bustling collision of ideas and
styles. Take 'Walkabout` as an example, ably opened by Fazio's agile
bass, it revives shades of Monk and features exhilarating solos from
Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet and Carlo Actis Dato on sax. But no matter how
charged the soloing may be it is always integrated within the overall
structure of each piece. There is plenty to take in ali the time. `Ciao
Jack' 'recycles' a traditional children's song, 'Frere Jacques', and
mainly features Gianpiero Malfatto's flute giving it a somewhat wistful
air. The theme is stated briefly at the close in a tumble of brass.
There's a further chance to spot the 'recycled' elements in
"Kitsch", a sort of homage to elements of Italian opera. I
don't know much about that but it certainly has all the swaggering
brashness of a Mingus band on the rampage. It ends with a borrowing from
Prokofiev and I'm certain that there are dozens of references I haven't
heard. That's not really the point though because what Fazio's
arrangements do is seamlessly conjoin ali the diverse elements into a
joyous celebration of genre. The Prokofiev quote crops up again at the
start of ' Igor' which unexpectedly explodes in a Dixie-ish way but also
makes passing references to Stravinsky while finding space for a couple
of excellent solos from Alberto Mandarini on trumpet/flugelhorn.
Elsewhere there are references to Bach, snatches of film, cartoon and
dance music rubbing shoulders with some of the most innovative and
assured group playing l've heard. Perhaps the last word should go to the
final track, 'In Vino Veritas', a 22 minute tour de force that begins
percussively in Africa, takes in a litte Dolhy-esque bass clarinet -
truly breath-taking, that is - shakes a híp a little at both Caribbean
and Latin scenarios. Ravel and Morricone's spaghetti westerns get a few
bars to themselves too. And, of course, the variety of virtually the
whole jazz tradition makes itself felt throughout. You get the picture ?
Fazio calls it'a trip in my memory through some soundtracks of my fife'.
That's a fair description and should tempt anyone who wants to hear what
is ostensibly a jazz octet tackle anything and everything which is
placed at their disposal. A delight from start to finish.
Paul Donnelly
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Jazzman
(France) - june 2003:
ENRICO FAZIO - Zapping
!
CHOC jazzman
Pour ce recycling project, le contrebassiste Enrico
Fazio se sert de dizaines d'extraits musicaux hors contexte, dans des
cadences, des assemblages, des couleurs et des rythmes différents. le
résultat est époustouflant, soigneusement élaboré et interprété
avec enthousiasme par quelques-uns des musiciens italiens les plus en
vue de la scène actuelle: Alberto, Mandarini (trompette), Gianpiero
Malfatto (trombone) ou l'inévitabie Carlo Actis Dato (anches) jamais
meilleur que dans ce contexte. Francesco Fazio a judicieusement
intégré des éléments épars dans un processus de composition
orchestrale évoquant le meilleur Willem Breuker. Dans le livret, Fazio
donne quelques explications sur le contenu des neuf píèces
présentées : baroque, block chords, jazz modal, jingles, rock, films,
comptines, classique, opera italien, percussions africaines, musiques
traditionnelles et populaires nord-américaines, cartoons, Balkans...
Monk, Coltrane, Rota, Schubert, Strauss, Mingus, Altena, Prokofiev,
Stravinsky, Joplin, Bach, Ravel, Moussorgskì, Bizet, Morricone,
Belafonte ... Pourtant, si notre attentìon est constamment sollicitée,
ce n'est jamais par un quelconque exercice d'identification. En effet,
cette ceuvre ne comporte pas de citations. De matériau composite, elle
s'impose paradoxalement par sa cohérence, son unité et la piace
qu'elle laisse pour des solos puissants et expressifs. Projet
casse-gueule, réussite totale.
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from www.allaboutjazz.com:
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from
www.allmusicguide.com:
Zapping!
Artist
Enrico
Fazio
Album Title
Zapping!
Date of Release
Apr 2003
AMG Rating * * *
*
Genre Jazz
AMG REVIEW
Part a synthesis of bassist Enrico Fazio's musical
knowledge, part an exercise in style zapping, this album could be seen
as a Mediterranean take on John Zorn's cartoon music, although the
results sound closer to a Southern Italian-based Frank Zappa big band
than anything from Manhattan's Lower East Side. The connection with
Zappa is reinforced by the neon-sign design of the album's title, which
immediately brings to mind the cover of Zqppa in New York. But
even in The Grand Wazoo, Zappa was a rocker. Fazio is first and
foremost a jazzman and Zapping! remains a jazz album, but what
jazz! The bassist takes listeners on quite a ride, referencing
everything from Renaissance motets to Nino Rota and Harry Belafonte!
Classical, African, Latin American, jazz and rock bits (snippets of
melodies, chords, sometimes just rhythms) are not embedded in the frames
of the pieces, they are the frames. You can listen to the album
on at least two levels: casually, simply enjoying the challenging
changes, the fun atmosphere, the Italian excess of it all, or intently, trying to spot
all the quotes to see if your knowledge of music matches Fazio's
encyclopedic cycle. Any way you choose, the music is entertaining, but
not easy to get into. The density of pieces like "Kitsch" and
"In Vino Veritas" works against their catchy grooves.
Highlights include the frantic "Wake Up!" (including a mad
baritone sax solo from Carlo Actis Dato), the reharmonized version of
the nursery rhyme "Frère Jacques" ("Ciao Jack!"), and the tuba-led
"Libellula Obesa," ending with a quote from the "Mickey
Mouse" song. The brass-heavy seven-piece band rolls through the
tunes with ease and a touch of craziness.
François Couture
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Jazzwise
(England) - july 2003:
Enrico Fazio
Septet
Zapping
(a recycling
project)
Leo CD LR372
Jazzwise
rating:
••••
Enrico
Fazio (b), Francesco Aroni Vigone (as, ss), Carlo Actis Dato (ts, bs,
bcl), Alberto Mandarini (t, flhn - tracks 5, 6, 9 only), Fabrizio Bosso
(t, flhn - tracks 1, 2, 3 ,4, 7, 8 only), Gianpiero Malfatto (tb, tba,
f), Angelina Perrotta (v, el. v, vla, P. ky), Fiorenzo Sordini (d, perc,
mar, balafon). Rec. tracks 5, 8 & 9 on 17/18 June 2001 and remain on
29/30 April 2002.
The 'recycling' in the title denotes the conscious
compositional decisions made by Fazio to utilise a range of influences,
forms and ideas from Bach to Scott Joplin to Coltrane and to borrow
magpie-like from rock, world and film music. There is much to admire
here. Carlo Actis Dato is the only player familiar to me but others such
as Malfatto and Sordini are certainly his equal. And Fazio is an astute
composer/arranger who deploys his troops with military precision. Listen
to Perrotta's violin in the ensemble on 'Kitsch', the album's
centrepiece and one of two standout tracks. Falling in with the horns behind Dato's energetic baritone, it changes and enriches the tone
colours subtly. And there's somethíng Zappa-like about 'Igor'. 'Aria
Pura' opens operatically before the marimba enters and it breaks out of
La Scala and heads out for the Serengeti. The trombone introduces
'Libellula Obesa' before a parade of the heavyweights from Malfatto on
tuba and Dato on baritone. 'In Vino Veritas' is the other standout. A
veritable global tour-deforce drawing on Europe's classical heritage, on
Africa for the roots of this music and on America for their synthesis in
the birth of jazz. Fazio even finds room for a snatch of the 'Banana
Boat Song'. Tremendous Stuff.
Duncan
Heining
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Jazz
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2003/janvier 2004
Enrico
Fazio - Zapping
Sette, Wake Up,
Walkabout, Ciao Jack, Kitsch, Igor, Aria pura, Libellula obesa, In vino
veritas
Alberto
Mandarini (tp, flh), Fabrizzio Bosso (tp, flh), Gianpiero Malfatto (tb,
tba, fl), Angelina Perrotta (vln, clav), Francesco Aroni Vigone (s),
Carlo Actis Dato (s, cl), Enrico Fazio (b), Florenzo Sordini (dm, perc)
Enregistré les 17 et 18 juin 2001 et les 29 et 30 avril 2002 à
Calliano (Italie) Durée : 1h 15’ 37’’ - Leo Records 372
(Orkhêstra International).
Enrico Fazio
nous avertit : « J’ai pris des centaines d’exemples musicaux de
nombreux styles de musiques et je les ai réutilisés hors de leur
contexte en une sorte de zapping musical.
En même temps j’ai
essayé de préserver mon propre style et l’unité du projet dans un
équilibre entre compositions et improvisations.
« Disons-le
tout de suite , aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître, le résultat
est assez emballant.
L’ensemble
fonctionne comme une fanfare, un brass-band, hommage à la tradition
néoorléanaise, d’ailleurs le thème «Igor» est plus qu’un clin d’oeil
au new-orleans, puisqu’il reprend «Tiger Rag» assez traditionnel, et
le déstructure, le reconstruit dans un décalage décapant et
enthousiasmant. Il ne s’agit pas de bricolage au sampler mais bien de
compositions de Fazio, et son système, décrit assez précisément sur
le livret, mérite qu’on s’y intéresse en ces temps de collages
musicaux, car il semble bien qu’il y ait là une voie qui permette de
s’exprimer. En fait peu importe la technique de création, ce qui
compte c’est le résultat. Et ici il est de qualité. Certes le
brassband est parfois un peu lourd rythmiquement, mais les solos sont si
nombreux et si bons que ça passe bien. Ajoutons la présence de l’excellent
Carlo Actis Dato qui ajoute son talent à l’ensemble comme par
exemple, au sax ténor, sur «Walkabout», et à la clarinette basse sur
« In vino veritas » qui représente un condensé de la mémoire
musicale de Fazio. Les musiciens italiens font bouger le jazz depuis
quelque temps.
Serge Baudot
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Fenetre sur jazz (France) -
septembre 2003:
Enrico FAZIO Septet - Zapping ! (Leo Records).
Comme toutes les cultures, celle du contrebassiste
italien Enrico Fazio ignore les frontières. Les accents baroques par
lesquels s'ouvre son « Zapping !» en témoignent et la
suite confirme ce qu'il a lui-meme intitulé un « recycling
project ». It est question de mémoire et d'humour dans ce qu'on
pourrait désigner comme une autobiographie musicale (Frère Jacques y
cotoie Monk et Strauss ainsi que Pierre et le Loup...). La section de
cuivres y est proprement impression nante, notamment le trombone et le
sax baryton.
Enrico Fazio se situe dans le sillage de Carta Bley,
Willem Breuker et Nino Rota. Ses compositions et arrangements.
parviennent non seulement A associer dans une oeuvre cohérente des
parcours musicaux épars et distants mais surtout A les faire converger dans un projet dont [a belle ossature ravira les
amoureux de ['exploration. Point West besoin de preter une oreille
attentive pour parvenir A accrocher un accent, une phrase, quelques
notes familières tant Fazio les a judicieusement dilués dans un
-Zapping !" A la virtuosité jubilatoire (repérez donc Le Bon, le
Brute et le Truand quelque part dans In Vino Veritas...). Ces citations
qui Wen sont pas tout A fait ne sont pas seulement des clins d'oeil, ou
des marques de respect mais des éléments constitutifs A [a fois d'une
mémoire et d'une création qui semblent surgir au gré des souvenirs
d'enfance et de voyages (Aria Pura). Chaque instrument est ici utilisé
avec justesse. Aucun West ignore ni relégué (écoutez le beau tuba de
Malfatto et les percus de Sordini), chacun trouve sa place avec sa
spécificité, ses sons, l'infini de ses possibilités. Ce brassage fait
de cet essai musical un bet hommage A la culture du jazz et dévoile A
nouveau [a richesse vivifiante des Italiens.
Thierry Flammant
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