L'america bagnata dal Mediterraneo

A marvelous musical journey blending influences from the lands bathed by the Mediterranean with the origins of jazz from across the ocean. 80 minutes with a superb New Project Orchestra skillfully directed by Maestro Bruno Tommaso. An unprecedented recording project captured live, featuring Stefano Menato, Giuliana Beberi, Fiorenzo Zeni, Enrico Dallantonio, Giorgio Beberi, Paolo Trettel, Christian Stanchina, Gianluca Carollo, Emiliano Tamanini, Luigi Grata, Demetrio Bonvecchio, Hannes Mock, Valerio Terzan, Fabio Rossato, Roberto Spadoni, Michael Lösch, Stefano Colpi, and Alessandro Ruocco.

"It is quite challenging to determine the percentage of jazziness inherent in our DNA, whether it has been influenced by millennia of relations with the southern world or absorbed through more recent contacts with African-American culture. A question frequently lingers among our jazz musicians: what are our roots? The blues or the lyrical arias? The marching band tunes or the tarantellas and saltarelli? Aware that there will never be a exhaustive and definitive answer, being a curious man, I have decided to focus on the possibilities of jazz development around our own and others' cultural heritage, popular and unpopular, cultivated and uncultivated."

Bruno Tommaso