2023-04-29 13:46:27
The 87-year-old pianist Enrico Intra was a guest at the Alexanderplatz for two evenings (April 21-22; on the 23rd he played at the Blue Note in Milan). Intra has a formidable touch and an infectious energy; his music is exalted in the formula of the trio with the talented drummer Tony Arco (longtime collaborator) and the young and original bassist Caterina Crucitti. Stimulated by the ‘intimate’ dimension of cave, the pianist-composer played on the 22nd for an hour and a half, offering a sampling of the vastness of his horizons. Always interested in wide-ranging non-derivative jazz – such as the union between African-American lessons and European roots-lessons – Intra has proposed, with interactive verve, a vast repertoire. In the lineup of his songs (the splendid “Video Blues” from 1991, the recent and touching “Time Tai Chi”), manipulations/reinventions of standards (from “All The Things You Are” to “Over The Rainbow”) as pages from Giuseppe Verdi and Giovanni Battista Martini, Duke Ellington and Enzo Jannacci. Space also for pieces with various ensembles, generated by rhythmic or harmonic-melodic cues with an unpredictable and ever-changing development. Intra is truly a contemporary artist, with a long sound memory.
THE HOUSE OF JAZZ he celebrated his 18th birthday especially on the 23rd, with a day dedicated to the guitar and recitals by the groups of Luciano Lettieri, Lello Panico and Fabio Mariani; on stage also the Campus Jazz Orchestra. In the previous days concert by the duo Nicole Mitchell / Mark Sanders (21/4) and piano-solo by Dave Burrell (20), making their debut in the structure. The flautist-composer Mitchell is her representative artist of the Chicago school, of the many creative musicians trained within the AACM association she was born in 1965 (she was also its president). The duo with the English drummer Mark Sanders – who grew up at the school of Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley – allows for an all-round sound exploration in which the flautist demonstrates how it is possible to combine an amazing technique (from harmonics to continuous breath, from rhythmic effects to manipulations created by the use of the voice) with narrative and expressive skills. Always in close dialogue with Sanders’ iridescent drums (with a timbral-percussive approach), Nicole Mitchell also used the voice in a very extensive survey of registers and phrasing, dizzyingly poised between experimentation and pathos.
BIG the recital by 82-year-old Dave Burrell, whose latest album was released in March on Parco della Musica Records (Harlem Rhapsody). In his career, the artist has covered a vast range of languages which includes free as reinterpretations of Ellington, Bernstein and Puccini. Burrell has proposed only a few titles from the recent CD in the plan (including the articulated How Little We Know e the delicate ballad Dancing with Monika) along with heavily customized versions of standards like Lush Life by B. Strayhorn. In the two extended encores he gave the audience a long sequence of standards (Autumn Leaves a Body and Soul) performed between respectful affection and creative transgression, between stride piano and Cecil Taylor.
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