Triazzo: Rino Cirinnà with Giuseppe Campisi and Paolo Vicari

Triazzo: Rino Cirinnà with Giuseppe Campisi and Paolo Vicari

NewsAnaglyphosFriday, 11 November 2022

A sax / double bass / drums trio. Compositions by Rino Cirinnà and Giuseppe Campisi, with a reading of Monk's Evidence at the center of the program. Seven tracks across thirty-eight minutes, in the most stripped-back jazz-club format.

Triazzo was released on 11 November 2022. The compositions are by Rino Cirinnà and Giuseppe Campisi; a reading of Thelonious Monk's Evidence is added to the program.

The trio

Cirinnà (saxophones), Campisi (double bass), Paolo Vicari (drums). A classic jazz-club trio: every voice exposed, no chordal instrument to lean on, everything left to the dialogue between the three.

The seven tracks

  1. Ballad For... (6:34)
  2. Triazzo (4:20)
  3. May Day (7:57)
  4. Evidence (4:41) — Thelonious Monk, 1948
  5. Pigro (7:23)
  6. Vivere (3:22)
  7. Been (3:25)

Thirty-eight minutes in total — the dimension of an extended EP. May Day and Pigro run past seven minutes and bring the trio's interplay to the foreground. Evidence stays as a canonical reference at the heart of jazz: Monk as the yardstick for any sax-led trio without piano.

The program rests on the idea that this trio works only when the three players really listen to each other: no heavy arrangements, short phrases, plenty of interplay.

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