Anger. In the 1950’s the Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamín began La Edad de la Ira, a series of paintings that lasted more than 20 years portraying man’s cruelty towards man. Yo Hombre del Mundo (Migrant) composed by our bassist Roberto Bucci, is inspired by and dedicated to all migrants, their willpower and their faith in […]
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Peripheral Songs
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 […]
The right to be rescued…
…and the right to dream of a better life. We all agree that all of us human beings have the right to choose a better life. We have the innate ability to dream, to aspire to and envision a better future, for ourselves and for our children and dearest ones. And it is because we […]
Crystal Silence and Marian McPartland
The first time I heard this Chick Corea‘s song it was not played by him but by Marian McPartland on her NPR Piano Jazz radio show. She was interviewing Chick, he played something, they played together, and then she tells him that she wants to play Crystal Silence for him. It was (it is) a […]
Yudhishthira’s Song
Yudhishthira is one of the main characters of the Indian epic Mahabharata. At a certain moment of the story he finds his brothers dead, they attempted to drink water from a lake without answering a Crane that advised them. The Crane asks Yudhishthira philosophical questions and after giving all the correct answers his brothers return […]
Secrets of a Kiri tree, the piano solo album
The very original jazz pianist performs music filled with thoughtful and insightful improvisations. Secrets of a Kiri Tree, Antonio Flinta’s very first solo piano album, puts the focus on his impressive playing as he interprets his own compositions and creates fresh versions of four pieces from other sources. Three originals, two standards, and a song […]
The Meeting
Digital release of our very first trio album The Meeting, recorded live at Gregory’s Jazz Club in Rome on October 2000. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, we played regularly in many jazz clubs in Rome, and I must say Gregory’s was one of my favorites. Very close to Piazza di Spagna and in […]
Live in Rome
These are hard times. We’ve been locked down because of the Coronavirus and we have worried about our family and our dear ones. And we have learned to hug friends with our eyes only. But we’ve had also an opportunity to sort out things in our minds and at home. And here it comes out […]
Cycles and Rhymes: the new quartet album
Cycles and rhymes, haikus, cicadas and graveyards, comets and seasons. We are all the same, or at least we are all alike. Not identical but like rhymes, each one of us recalls another one. Also animals and plants, and stones and stars resemble us, or we resemble them, in these many cycles of days and […]
I, the wind, come and go as I choose… and none can stop me
“…the music of the sun and the stars, the music of yourself, vibrating. Yes, you are the music too…everyone is supposed to be playing their part in this vast Arkestra of the cosmos”. This is Sun Ra, pianist, composer and poet, in the 1972 film Space is the Place. Space is the Place is a […]