Anger, Commitment and Love (quartet)
Recorded in June 2023, this album has songs we’ve being playing on tour in the last two years, of which two are new compositions, Yo Hombre del Mundo (Migrant) by our bass player Roberto Bucci, and the ballad The Flower You Don’t Expect; one is a quartet rendition of the song Yone y Elena from my piano solo album Secrets of a Kiri Tree, and Yudhishthira’s Song and La Edad de la Ira are new versions of what we had already recorded in trio and quartet many years ago. (read more)
Peripheral Songs (piano solo)One year after recording my first piano solo album Secrets of a Kiri Tree I realized many songs of that recording session had been left out, at the margin, peripheral songs waiting to be listened to. Of course there is Kakuzo Okakura’s book all around, there are two songs inspired by two poets, Hikmet and Auden, a song dedicated to Peruvian painter Tilsa Tsuchiya, two standards… (read more)
Secrets of a Kiri tree (piano solo)
Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea, is not only the first book about tea ceremony written in English (1906), but also a philosophical treatise on oriental culture, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and contrasting eastern and western considerations about life and art. Reading again this book after many years has made me deepen my playing and record this, my first piano solo album. (read more)
Even if I still don’t know how to do it, I believe music can change the world. Music is universal, is understood by everyone. Music lets you dream. Music can take you on a journey to unknown and unexpected lands, no need for passport: there are no frontiers, no border guards, the sea just a cradle, nobody is harmed, everyone is welcome… Wayne Shorter says it beautifully: “Try to play what you wish for, play how you wish the world to be”. (read more)
La Noche Arrolladora (quartet)
“…y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto, planetas, plantaciones palpitantes, la sombra perforada, acribillada por flechas, fuego y flores, la noche arrolladora, el universo…” From Pablo Neruda’s poem La Poesía, about poetry calling him, about the awakening of creativity. This and three other songs of this CD are composed overlapping different melodic/rhythmic cycles, creating grooves with a clear sense of time, but without a clear “one” (maybe many “ones”?) (read more)
Art Is an Insurgent Poem (quartet)
Recorded in 2013 in Rome, the title song is inspired by the poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, especially the book “Poetry as Insurgent Art“. There is also a song dedicated to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, The Perception of What’s Coming, and another one to Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, Ligeti in the Background. (read more)
Recorded in 2009 in trio and quartet, Tamed like Saint Exupery’s fox in Le Petit Prince, and dedicated to people and places that have tamed me. There is a song inspired by a character in the Mahabharata, another one by Ralph Ellison’s book Invisible man, a tribute to Philip Glass and Thelonious Monk and much more.
Portraits & Songs (trio)
Four tracks on this album are inspired by the artistry of four twentieth-century North and South American painters (Basquiat, Matta, De Kooning, Tsuchiya). I owe them a word of thanks for having illuminated my spirit. The other four songs are the result of a variety of sensations. There is a song inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem, and a solo piano version of Billy Strayhorn’s Lush Life. (read more)
La Edad de la Ira (trio)
La Edad de la Ira is the name of a series of paintings by the Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín. There is also our version of Keith Jarrett’s In Front, a song inspired by Caetano Veloso’s appearance in Pedro Almodóvar’s film Hable con Ella, and Ninietta, finalist at the 2006 USA Songwriters Competition. (read more)
On the first Coronavirus lockdown of 2020, I found this recording of a concert of our trio in 2004 in Rome. We played some songs from our last album Tree and Figure and some that were not yet recorded on studio. The music is joyful, instinctive and soulful. (read more)
“…This trio takes its cues from the wide mainstream of American Jazz piano but add their own distinctive energy to the sound” Cadence Magazine (USA).
Recorded on 2003, our first disc in trio for the Italian jazz label Splasc(h) Records. Eight originals and the Michel Legrand song What are you doing the rest of your life. (read more)
The Meeting (trio)
This is our very first CD, recorded live at Gregory’s Jazz Club in Rome, October 19, 2000. Five songs: two originals and three standards: Body and Soul, Recordame and Charlie Parker’s Confirmation. (read more)