Stefano Di Battista - Morricone Stories (2021)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: April 3, 2021

Stefano Di Battista - Morricone Stories (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 319 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 113 Mb | 00:49:36
Jazz | Label: Warner Music

Ennio Morricone’s film music provides an infinite treasure trove of creative thinking, associated with the most varied of images. It is also extremely versatile, just waiting to be delved into, reworked and rediscovered – his compositions would still be equally enjoyable and perfectly recognizable performed by a Bulgarian choir or a quintet of ocarinas. But throwing jazz into the mix takes things to a whole new level, creating what feels like a perfect match, a natural, perhaps even inevitable partnership. This stems in part from a distinctive feature of Morricone’s music: it places highly emotional melodies within a texture of intelligent harmonies, and jazz does exactly the same, particularly in the hands of someone like Stefano Di Battista.

The saxophonist takes the composer’s themes and plays with them as if they were a magical substance, that special and mysterious music that almost inexplicably fills our souls. And he didn’t feel compelled to stick to Morricone’s most famous film scores, the ones etched into the public consciousness. In some cases, Stefano has chosen lesser-known themes, or rather tunes from lesser-known or forgotten films, like “Veruschka” or “What Have You Done to Solange?” both to dig deeper into a repertoire where there is still much to be explored, and as a reminder that Morricone provided the soundtrack to more than 500 films, only a handful of which are still celebrated today. These tunes are both refined and very precious, and of course you also get the pure pleasure of hearing themes you know inside and out turned into perfect jazz standards, like the swinging and witty “Metti, una sera a cena”, or “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” reinvented as a duelling improvisation, with the sax taking on the brief flurry of notes inspired by the call of the coyote, before dissolving into the pure emotion of “Deborah’s Theme” from Once Upon a Time in America. This is one of Morricone’s greatest ever works, one he was very fond of because it epitomised his ideal of a melody that achieves the maximum possible result with the minimum number of notes.

Then there is a nimble reworking of The Mission, with the original oboe effortlessly transposed to the soprano sax, and Flora, a surprise, previously unreleased number that the revered composer gifted to Di Battista. Ultimately, the mechanism feels flawless and could spawn a series of other records – as if part of Morricone’s thinking was always, perhaps unwittingly, directed towards jazz. The album “Morricone Stories” will be released April 2021.
Tracklist:
1. Cosa avete fatto a Solange (From "What Have You Done to Solange?") (03:59)
2. Peur sur la ville (From "Fear over the City") (03:22)
3. La cosa buffa (04:21)
4. Verushka (04:45)
5. Deborah's Theme (From "Once Upon a Time in America") (03:42)
6. Metti, una sera a cena (03:54)
7. Apertura della caccia (From "1900") (04:56)
8. Il grande silenzio (From "The Great Silence") (04:16)
9. Flora (02:34)
10. La donna della domenica (From "Sunday Woman") (06:39)
11. Gabriel’s Oboe (From "The Mission") (03:30)
12. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (03:31)

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