Come Back to Sicily: Stjepko Gut and a recording at the close of an era
Released in April 2022, Serbian trumpeter Stjepko Gut's album symbolically closes the pre-Mhodì Anaglyphos era. A quintet recorded in Sicily, where Gut has long made his home, with Cirinnà, Burgio, Toscano and Pillitteri. Sixty-nine minutes of standards and originals.
Come Back to Sicily is the album Stjepko Gut recorded in Sicily for Anaglyphos in 2022. The title is also a personal statement: Gut, born in Ruma (Serbia) on 15 December 1950, has chosen Sicily as his home and lives in Cava d'Aliga, near Scicli (Ragusa).
About Stjepko Gut
Among the leading jazz trumpeters of Serbia alongside Duško Gojković and Milivoje Marković, Gut trained at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. For two years he was a member of Lionel Hampton's All Stars Orchestra (one of only two white musicians in that lineup), and in the late Nineties he shared the stage with Clark Terry, Benny Bailey, Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove and Nicholas Payton in the Trumpet Jazz Summit. He founded the jazz department at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, where he served as visiting professor from 2012 to 2018.
The quintet
Gut (trumpet), Rino Cirinnà (sax), Seby Burgio (piano), Nello Toscano (double bass), Marcello Pillitteri (drums). A lineup built around Gut's longstanding connection with the Sicilian jazz scene.
The nine tracks
- Signore e Signorine (8:32)
- All I Do Is a Dream of You (7:46)
- Hanging with Sweets (7:54)
- A Handful of Stars (8:49)
- Cry Me a River (10:00)
- Ritmo di villa pace (6:55)
- Signore e Signorine (Medium) (6:55)
- I Want to Talk About You (5:06)
- Tonna n Sicilia (7:03)
Sixty-nine minutes in total: a classic LP-length program built to be heard front-to-back. It alternates standards (Cry Me a River, I Want to Talk About You, All I Do Is Dream of You) with originals — Signore e Signorine appears twice, in a swing version and at medium tempo — and pieces from the trumpeter's own book.
From a catalog standpoint, Come Back to Sicily is one of the last Anaglyphos releases before the label joined Mhodì Music Company in the same 2022. For this reason it tends to be read as a bridge record.
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