NEAPOLIS - Luca Luciano		Samples
Artist: Luca Luciano Album: NEAPOLIS Price: £8.50 (ex VAT)	On this breathtaking collaboration, virtuoso Italian clarinettist Luca Luciano and fellow Neapolitan pianist Franco Piccinno join forces to create a body of work that fuses classical techniques and sensibilities with the liberating improvisatory spirit of jazz - a fresh approach that, in the words of JAZZ UK magazine, 'takes the clarinet to the higher ground'. Each participant is classically trained: Luca studied at the ancient Conservatoire of Music in Naples and at the Conservatoire of Salerno, while Franco attended the Conservatoire of Avellino. A chance meeting at a Naples jazz club jam session led to them working regularly together in Italy, where Luca's debut solo album, PASSIONE, appeared in 2000. Both are now permanently based in London. The majority of the composition credits, from the opening 'She Likes Vivaldi' to the engrossing multi-tracked 'Suite for Clarinets' that closes the album, are Luca's, interspersed with four of Franco's complementary pieces. Whilst undeniably contemporary, and occasionally challenging, the music on this album is refreshingly accessible, ranging as it does from the atmospherically pastoral to the energetically improvisational. Luca's love of both classical music and jazz, and his vision of the possibilities for their fusion, is audibly passionate throughout, and with Franco as the perfect foil for this ambition, each of the sixteen pieces, whether it's under a minute or over six minutes in length, is as complete as a jewel. Martin Levan's immaculate production values lend NEAPOLIS a crystalline sound quality that's beyond reproach - the youthful vigour and sense of adventure that this 'sensational duo' bring to the project ('a joyful improvisational journey' - JAZZ UK) is perfectly captured on this uniquely exciting album. Title MP3 Basic Quality SUITE FOR CLARINET AND PIANOFORTE 1. She likes Vivaldi from "Winter" by A Vivaldi 2. Sonata #2 'Stellare' 3. Lunare 4. Neapolis Play 5. Sketch #2 6. Fragment #1 from "etude n.1" Op. 51 by R Stark 7. Sonata #1 Play 8. Sketch #5 9. Pazzo Luciano 10. Sketch #7 11. Sonata #3 12. Fragment #2 13. The mock trumpet Play SUITE FOR CLARINETS 14. Divertimento #1 15. Divertimento #2 16. Divertimento #3 'Londrina' Play All songs written by Luca Luciano except songs 3, 5, 8 & 10 written by Franco Piccinno Top