Duke's Dream

PIERANUNZI GIULIANI

For Enrico Pieranunzi and Rosario Giuliani, their reflections on the music of Duke Ellington provide a vital impulse for a musical process inwhich they re-imagine the Duke's music, make it contemporary, and give it fresh new colors. Duke's Dream opens a window and offers use a seat in a train that not only connects two parts of a city, but also one type of culture with another. Trains begans with the A Train to Harlem, but it also suggests other trains and other trains of thought. Enrico Pieranunzi has had a long musical career with experiences deeply rooted in the history of jazz. In his youth, he played with Chet Baker, worked with many legendary jazz performers on stage and in studios, later wrote a book about Bill Evans, and today is himself considered one of the grandees of jazz. In Rosario Giuliani - eighteen years younger than himself - Pieranunzi has met a musician with the same urge to achieve authentic expression. Both know that a tribute album would only be a pale imitation of the figure being honored if it didn't include something personal. A successful homage, in spite of all its affection, is always to some degree a self-portrait. This is also true for Pieranunzi's musical involvement with Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano, Charlie Parker, and Wayne Shorter, as well as his excursions into the sound worlds of Domenico Scarlatti and Federico Fellini.

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