Vie di Fuga, The Bach Open Project: Giammarco rereads Bach with the OJdM
Maurizio Giammarco's second project with the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo is built around Bach counterpoint. Eight pieces in which large-form jazz writing meets the open forms of the Baroque tradition, from a revisited Sinfonia IX to a four-part Trio Sonata.
Vie di Fuga, The Bach Open Project was released on 15 May 2012, the second chapter of the collaboration between Maurizio Giammarco, Roberto Rossi and the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo.
The idea
The starting point is Johann Sebastian Bach's counterpoint: the project takes its constructive logic (the fugue as form) and transposes it into the language of the large jazz ensemble. This is not a literal reading of Bach themes but an experiment in open form.
The eight tracks
- Regium Waltz (8:40)
- Sinfonia IX Revisited (8:39)
- Diversi Canoni (8:46)
- Bach Gigabytes (3:29)
- Trio Sonata Jazz Adventures (Part I) (4:20)
- Trio Sonata Jazz Adventures (Part II) (9:11)
- Trio Sonata Jazz Adventures (Part III) (5:56)
- Trio Sonata Jazz Adventures (Part IV) (6:34)
The four-part Trio Sonata is the conceptual core of the work. Bach Gigabytes, a brief electronic interlude, openly states the dialogue between Baroque structures and contemporary syntax.
The orchestra
OJdM in full: Giovanni Nicosia, Salvo Riolo, Giuseppe Privitera, Giovanni Morello, Camillo Pavone, Roberto Rossi, Giuseppe Consiglio, Antonio Caldarella, Orazio Maugeri, Marco Caruso, Rino Cirinnà, Gaetano Cristofaro, Carlo Cattano, Seby Burgio, Alberto Fidone, Peppe Tringali. Sixteen players who run through the entire Anaglyphos catalog of those years.
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