- Jazz
- Improv
- Avant-Garde
- Free Jazz
- Bombastic
- Chaotic
- Dark
- Euphoric
- Intense
A co-founder of the Astral Traveling listening Sessions, Alessandro O. is the first guest-not-guest of the show, right on time to celebrate its tenth episode on Cashmere Radio. For those who know Alessandro even just a bit, it will come as no surprise that he chose to dedicate this mixtape to the one and only Massimo Urbani, and more precisely to the free jazz side of his collaborations. Here’s what he had to say about his hommage selection:
“Massimo Urbani has been, without exaggeration, the biggest talent that ever came out of the Italian Jazz scene. His talent was discovered when he was just 15 years old and beginning in 1973 he started to play on the most important stages in Italy as well as in the US with Enrico Rava. This mixtape sums up his work as a side man: he was a gifted soloist and improvisator characterized by a blazing fast and yet precise style; we focus on the years between ’73 –’79 (with one honorable exception) and the free jazz side of his collaboration, where his take on Charlie Parker’s bop lessons, reinvented through the lenses of Coltrane’s and Ayler’s expressionism find its peak.”
Enjoy the ride and follow Alessandro on Instagram for a glance into his broad musical world.
Artwork by Anne Fock
Playlist
Enrico Rava – Vento Rosso [1975]Giancarlo Schiaffini – Flip Flop [1973]
Giorgio Gaslini Double - Message pt. 2 [1973]
Mario Schiano – Sud (to Renzo Margonari) [1976]
Gaetano Liguori Idea Quintet – Corale Per Albert Ayler [1979, unofficial/unreleased]
Enrico Rava - Lavori casalinghi [unreleased TV Broadcast, around 1976]
Luca Flores w. Matt Jazz Quintet - Six Blue Fragments [1987]
Mario Schiano Con Giorgio Gaslini – Leslie [1973]
Five For Jazz – Locomotiva [1986]
Gaetano Liguori Collective Orchestra – Nuova Resistenza [1976]