Bob Mintzer / Dado Moroni / Riccardo Fioravanti / Joe La Barbera: La Vita e Bella (2010)

It was by bringing together four outstanding international jazz masters, for a tribute to the purest jazz music in a true and simple way, that this project came to life. This album has been recorded “live” in a historical jazz club located in the town of Busto Arsizio ( Italy) and it’s imbued with those very genuine but volatile flavours such as : immediacy, complicity and the spontaneous feedback coming from the audience. These four talented musicians took on this nice challenge and the result is evident. Four musicians who are now a worldwide reference: saxophonist Bob Mintzer is one of the most studied for his modernity of language and arrangement. Dado Moroni is perhaps the most famous Italian jazzman and appreciated worldwide. Joe La Barbera is not only known for his intense collaboration with Bill Evans, but also because few people today are equipped with expressiveness and ability to enter the music like him. Riccardo Fioravanti is now one of the most solid rhythmic international reality and his collaborations and his records speak for themselves.
Original compositions( with the exception of two songs), a modern language together with a great respect for tradition are the ingredients savantly blended together as an example of a precise common intent.
The sound is enriched by this live recording that conveys its freshness, along with those surrounding “noises” leading to the overwelming climax bringing to memory some of those historical jazz sessions of the glorious past. The song titled "Life is Beautiful", soundtrack of the famous film by Roberto Benigni, as well as being the title track sums up the flavor of the cd.

Tracklist:
1.The Gathering
2.La Vita e Bella
3.Re Re
4.Kind of Bill
5.Bradley's, 2AM?
6.After
7.Ninna Anna
8.Invitation
Personnel:Bob Mintzer (tenor sax)
Dado Moroni (piano)
Riccardo Fioravanti (double bass)
Joe La Barbera (drums)
La vita è bella
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Dado Moroni Trio: Shapes (2010)

Dado Moroni, the internationally acclaimed pianist and elder statesman of Italian jazz makes his TCB debut with a new trio featuring bassist Peter Washington and drummer Enzo Zirilli who is based in London and playing regularly on the UK scene.

Featuring a great selection of tunes, five originals from Dado plus four standards that include wonderful interpretations of Ivan Lins' "Love Dance" and Jobim's "Desafinado", the album is dedicated to Italian tenor saxophonist and friend Gianni Basso. The album also introduces Dado as a singer for the first time on the standard "Here's to Life", which is performed as a tribute to another friend, drummer 'extraordinaire' Bobby Durham. Both Gianni Basso and Bobby Durham passed away in the summer of 2009.

Dado Moroni Dado is no newcomer to the recording studio. As well as leading and recording with his own trio, he has appeared on at least 24 albums over the past 15 years with such musicians as Jon Faddis, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, Al Grey, Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington and, of course Tom Harrell and George Robert with whom he has both toured and recorded widely. He was also Ray Brown's 'first call' pianist whenever the great bassist toured Italy. Dado also appeared on the Ray Brown album, Some of 'My Best Friends Are...the Piano Players' (Telarc).
Tracklist:
1. Ballade Pour Gianni
2. Brother Alfred
3. Desafinado
4. The Duck and the Duchess
5. Love Dance
6. F.B.S.
7. For the Time Being
8. Shark Attack
9. Here's to Life

Recorded Oct 26-28, 2009 at Zerodiecistudio, Genova, Italy
Personnel:
Dado Moroni (piano)
Peter Washington (bass)
Enzo Zirilli (drums)
Shapes

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