{"id":7044,"date":"2023-02-19T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antongiuliofoti.com\/UG93ZXJlZCBieSBTYW50aW5vIEZvdGkgKHYwMSkK\/copy-of-the-importance-of-holding-fast-interview-with-antongiulio-foti\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28T20:48:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:48:14","slug":"17-a-range-of-excellent-italian-jazz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.antongiuliofoti.com\/UG93ZXJlZCBieSBTYW50aW5vIEZvdGkgKHYwMSkK\/17-a-range-of-excellent-italian-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"A range of excellent Italian Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"[...] and the pianist Antongiulio Foti offer us excellent albums, of appreciable quality far beyond our borders<\/b>.[...]\n
Antongiulio Foti
Hold Fast (Alfa Music)
Score: 8\/9<\/b>
\nRaymond Chandler\u2019s publishers, the great writer of hard boiled crime fiction that led to noir, used to ask only one thing: action. Because the audience just wants the action. He replied: \u201cThey think they are only interested in the action, but in reality, even if they don't know it, they care very little about the action. What they really care about, and what I care about, is creating emotion, through dialogue and description.\" This made Chandler a master of storytelling. The impression, listening to this debut of the little more than twenty year old pianist from here, is that Foti had in mind the words of the great writer who invented the investigator Philip Marlowe. No wonder that the American Phil Markowitz, his teacher at the Manhattan School of Music (in New York, where ours lives), writes in the notes that this \"Hold Fast contains great storytelling, mystery, joy and pathos, with colorful inventive compositions and exceptional performances by all. Mr. Foti has a great imagination, pianistic touch and sound. It is an amazing debut that belies the years of the talented leader \".\nWe agree and we like to add that the rhythmic duo Jacopo Ferrazza\/Ettore Fioravanti works excellently, a multi-colored and shrewd springboard for Foti (and also for the guest Rosario Giuliani, playing Alto Sax in two very calibrated and virtuosic pieces, starting with dialogue \u2013 between piano and sax \u2013 in Elastic Bands). The other refined guest, the singer Daniela Spalletta, offers precious vocals in Hermes and becomes the protagonist in the Mediterranean Suite, which unites Seikilos, the ancient melody of the \"Seikilos Epitaph\" proposed in different idioms and rendered as an infinite sigh, driven by the bow on the strings of the double bass towards an almost free dream, with the piece Mediterraneo by Mango, sung instead in a questionable way. Still of excellent caliber is the swinging Tesseract, the thoughtful La d\u00e9couverte de Lascaux and the close in quintet Mokongo Ma' Chevere, a sparkling tribute to Mother Africa.\"<\/i>

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