27 Jun ‘Besides the soloist melancholic and dreamy Baker, it emerges superbly colourful kaleidoscope of Italian jazz of the sixties…’ ALL ABOUT JAZZ ~ CD OF THE WEEK… CHET BAKER/PIERO UMILIANI ~ ITALIAN MOVIES
ALL ABOUT JAZZ CD OF THE WEEK 4.5/5 STARS…
30TH MAY 2016
Jazz and cinema. A blend beautifully documented by this confanetto, intended to attract the interest not only of Chet Baker fan. There is a lot of work behind these six soundtracks created between 1958 and 1962 thanks to the wonderful score by Piero Umiliani, including orchestral pages strictly jazz facility and refined winks to pop. Besides the soloist melancholic and dreamy Baker, it emerges superbly colorful caleodoscopio of Italian jazz of the sixties.
The orchestra from time to time gathered shines thanks to musicians of the caliber of Marcello Woods, Livio Cerveglieri, Nini Rosso and Baldo Masters, to name a few. It is the synthesis of a national jazz scene in full artistic growth, now strong and vital cultural identity. Baker, then at the height of success, unfolds class and suppleness of interpretation from the sound of “The Usual column Unknowns” contained on the first CD. There is also room for the refined chiaroscuro watermarks Helen Merrill, the female vocal equivalent of Baker.
But it Umiliani the real heart of these sound pages, with its rich panache arrangements and surprising tonal nuances. It is not easy to run into soundtracks so pregnant with imagination and virtuosity as those at issue…
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