FRESU,PAOLO/CAINE,URI - Two Minuettos - LiveCD)

Three things distinguish jazz from all other types of music. The improvisation, the rhythmic feeling (or swing or groove) and the musical interaction of the instrumentalists and / or singers among themselves. Two Minuettos (Live in Milano) provides excellent sound samples for all three characteristics of jazz, but it is especially the interaction between Paolo Fresu and Uri Caine, which makes this album a compelling listening experience. Once the one responds to the other in harmonious harmony, sometimes there is between the two exciting tension, colored contrasts. Just as the Italian trumpeter (also on the flugelhorn and discreetly used electronic effects devices) and the American pianist communicate here in front of a live audience, how they throw each other's balls and pioneer the musical thread in the dialogue. In their intercourse without a net and a double floor, the two foreign titles from the baroque and the late romanticism, from the classes of old school swing, songwriter folk and pop translate into the jazz language of the present For the concert recording in Milan, the duo also recorded several songs from Paolo Freso's homeland. The repertoire is framed by two minuets from Johann Sebastian Bach's Notenb?chlein for Anna Magdalena Bach, which is why, of course, the album title Two Minuettos. In the Minuet in G Minor (BWV Anh. 115), Fresu and Caine remain in the vicinity of the counterpoint of the original, but in some cases they disappear into a freely improvised, heavily reverberated fantasy of the spheres. The Minuet in G Major (BWV Anh. 114) finally makes the wonderful live album sober and serene