A sincere, philological and experimental thanksgiving to Frank Zappa. Not merely a tribute concert or live-concept. A monographic work, accurate in its theatrical and scenographic details, an entertaining opportunity for everybody to know and rediscover Zappa’s universe.
It’s impossible to sum up briefly the countless influences in Zappa’s music, just as so many are the musicians who adopted (sometimes unconsciously) something precious from him. Among these are Quintorigo.
Critics had already found in Quintorigo’s music an evident Zappianic code almost as a priori and obsessive forma mentis. The show is also an emotional and instinctive performance, an exquisite and tasty selection from Zappa’s works which will lead us to gorge on his discography, stodgy dishes included.
Working on Zappa’s music has always been a project in embryo. Thanks to Roberto Gatto all this came true. Gatto, outstanding star of Italian and international jazz with renowned career, since forever harboring an unrestrained passion for Zappa, invited Quintorigo to bring about this beautiful idea together. Thankful and eager the band accepted. Coming out soon the album “Around Zappa”.
The live show playlist begins with instrumentals such as Uncle Meat and Peaches En Regalia. Moris Pradella joins the band singing Cosmik Debris, Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow, Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up King Kong, Big Swifty, Igor’s Boogie, Village Of The Sun. The beautiful Uncle Remus is introduced by the violin of Andrea Costa while Gionata Costa at the cello leads the melanchonic Black Napkins, making good use of effects to convey the charisma of an electric guitar enriched by the expressiveness of the cello. And an end with a bang, playing Echidna’s Arf (Of You) e Zomby Woof.
Quintorigo and Roberto Gatto approach Zappa with refined arrangements still respecting the essence of the original songs, reread with personal sounds, exquisite textures and unrestrained experimental trend, mark of Quintorigo since their beginning. With Roberto Gatto, Quintorigo prove once again themselves distinguished musicians, gaining without reserve the passionate audience’s approval. “Around Zappa” is not to be missed by Zappa’s fans and recommended for everyone.

Featuring:
Roberto Gatto, drums
Moris Pradella, voice

Universal has recently published a record entitled “Le Origini” that includes the best of Quintorigo’s first three albums: “Rospo” (1999), “Grigio”(2000) and “In Cattività” (2003). The record is receiving a large promotion by all italian media. On the occasion, Quintorigo conceived a show during which they perform the songs of this album only, and in which they avail themselves of the vocal contribution of Luca Sapio, a vocalist whose talent has been generally recognized and appreciated, and who best performs their classic repertoire (Luca Sapio has been the vocalist of the latest lineup of “Area” and has made a lot of prestigious collaborations with some important italian and international artists). After many years, this is a good occasion for fans to listen to those fantastic songs again in a live show.

Quintorigo Experience is entirely dedicated to great guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
In fact seventy years ago, the September 27^th 1942, he was born one of the biggest contemporary author and musician, Jimi Hendrix.He has been the pioneer of a lot of sounds that would have been the future rock evolution through an innovative fusion of blues, rhythm and blues, soul, hard rock, psychedelia and funky, Hendrix has left an unforgettable mark in three different generations. Sons of the same artistic attitude, and thanks to their rare versatility and musical capacity of mixing different sounds and musical genres like classical music, rock, jazz, punk, reggae, funky and blues, Quintorigo, after the wonderful tribute to Charles Mingus, performed in many theatres and in the most important Italian festivals (receiving a lot of awards and honors like the Top Jazz Prize in the 2008), had felt the desire to make a touched and original tribute to the great genius of the artist from Seattle.

Quintorigo Experience at Coriano

Quintorigo Experience is also the title of the album that, with SELF license, will be published in a few days and in which the group from Romagna, with their known and undeniable skill in manipulating the arrangements, face twelve chapters of the magnificent repertory of Jimi Hendrix, involving important vocal guest like Eric Mingus (son of the myth Charles Mingus), Vincenzo Vasi (Vinicio Capossela’s musician) and Moris Pradella (that will be on the stage with the band for each concert).
Moris was born in Mantova, he’s an artist and multi- instrumentalist, and thanks to his powerful voice he’s able to recreate that pathos and emotional that the left-handed from Seattle could give in his concerts.

Photo and docs for press

30 years after Mingus’ death, Quintorigo’s tribute to the genius of the American composer, the first one ever made in Italy( with which they got theeminent title of “2008 best group” according to “Music Jazz” magazine’s yearly referendum, now available on cd Sam Production/Egea) is a complex show of strong impact. The set design take us back to New York jazz clubs of the 50s. The alternation of music and readings ( from the autobiography “Beneath the Underdog” and “Tonight at Noon”, written by Mingus’ second wife Sue Graham Mingus) helps us to put together the pieces of the puzzle “Mingus”: his music, his life, the American racist reality of that period. Quintorigo play Mingus: a modern and charming revisitation of one of the most innovative genius of modern jazz, Charles Mingus (1922-1979), an authentic genius of jazz: composer, orchestra leader, double bass player, pianist, he left an enduring mark on the history of 20th century music, a solid and binding influence over contemporary musicians, a precious inheritance for anybody who play, love and listen to jazz.

The project Quintorigo play Mingus comes out from a careful consideration and has specific purposes; it derives from the unconditional love of the band for Mingus as musician, but even as a man. Tributes to the author have been already made, like the ones by Joni Mitchell and Bill Frisell, with no doubts the most successful, but there was nothing like that in Italy. There’s no work that could completely represent this great composer regarding his artistic and existential experience. These are the starting points of the project “Quintorigo play Mingus”, an organic project which has a lot of purposes and valiances: to provide jazz listeners with a better knowledge of Mingus’ work (but not only them); to catch the connection between he music and the ideas of the author, but also the biographical experiences which determined his development in order to represent a slice of the American pre- and post-war society, pointing out racial, political and customs themes; to get the charm and the emotion of Mingus’ across the audience by using several languages, being that the main trait of Quintorigo musical aestthetics. Quintorigo play Mingus is a well-articulated project which moves and developes between the record and the live shows, two elements that are deeply connected and that give their work much completeness and structure. So, we’re not only talking about a record or a tribute concert; this is something we could define as a mixed monographical work, which blends the musical element with the theatrical and documentary dimensions. During the concerts, which are extremely accurate regarding the set design, Quintorigo play the most famous pieces of Mingus in their own style, the ones they recorded, alternating their performances with the readings of some passages of Mingus biography and the projection of documentaries and concerts on a big screen, making an interaction with the band’s commentary-accompaniment-counterpoint. All this is supported by a refined set, made up of a few objects, lights and customes which create a mix of vintage, post-modern, technologic and old fashioned elements. What the audience watch is an involving and poetic dialogue between Quintorigo and Mingus, between jazz and other contaminations, between old and new music, past and present, sounds, images and atmospheres.Nowadays, Quintorigo are presenting a live show with the collaboration of Michele Francesconi, important and brillant pianist in the contemporary Italy jazz scene.

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