Bollani explores the history of jazz and beyond with an almost encyclopedic array of styles and inflections, though he always stays true to his traditional jazz roots The album is comprised of 16 miniatures, full of lyricism and flashing wit.

This is a beautiful piano trio album and a chance to hear Stefano Bollani in a different context. Recorded in New York last October, with Manfred Eicher producing, Stone in the Water is the first of Stefano Bollani s ECM recordings to feature the Italian pianist s Danish Trio , a group that already has six years of playing experience behind it. The material on Stone in the Water spans original pieces by Bollani and Bodilsen, tunes by Caetano Veloso and Antonio Carlos Jobim and Poulenc s Improvisation 13 en la mineur it s a wide range of material, unified by the gracefulness of Bollani s touch and the feeling of freedom in the trio playing.

TALENTED, VULCANIC AND ECLECTIC ITALIAN JAZZ PIANIST STEFANO BOLLANI INTERPRETS THE TRADITIONAL BRAZILIAN REPERTOIRE OF BOSSA, SAMBA AND CHORO.

With this recording of the Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F, Riccardo Chailly blends the classical elegance and sophistication of the Gewandhaus Orchestra with the jazz/blues sensibility of the mercurial Milan-born jazz legend Stefano Bollani.

The Rhapsody was fittingly performed in the jazz-band version (orchestrated by Paul Whiteman), while the Concerto was in Gershwin's original symphonic orchestration.

Completing the well-filled album (over 73 minutes) are the symphonic suite Catfish Row - derived from Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess - and Gershwin's earliest significant work, the Broadway-inspired rag Rialto Ripples.

Chick Corea and Stefano Bollani, both stars of their instruments for their generations, combine their considerable talents for this first recorded collaboration, a document of a most spirited gig in Orvieto's Teatro Mancinelli last December. Effervescent virtuosity abounds as the two piano genii romp through a program that includes Jobim and Buarque's "Portrait in Black and White", the swing ballad "Darn That Dream", Fats Waller's "Jitterbug Waltz", Miles Davis's "Nardis", blues, improvisations and more. And this recording is Corea's first new ECM date in more than a quarter-century.

This is a beautiful duo album by two of Italy's greatest jazz musicians. The repertoire showcases marvelous linear playing by two master improvisers making freely lyrical jazz together - inspired by jazz history, South American music, the Italian song tradition, contemporary composition and more, all developed into a highly inspired program.

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