(Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz) Marina Fiorentini - Unexpected String - 2004, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

CD recorded at Ultrasonica Studio, San Paulo, Brazil, Jan 2004
Recording engineer: Andre Hunnicut Cortada
Producer: Marina Fiorentini
Wide space therefore to the free jazz of the Fiorentini Ensemble, whose formation, present in the c.d. gives Fiorentini - Unexpected String - Music Village/Moonlight Records 2004 (12 June 2005) One of the more eclectic personages of the jazz scene and unexpected music returns. Singer, pianist, author for the cinema and the theatre, remarkable director and bandleader, the Fiorentini is perhaps more famous one to the foreign country that in Italy. Unexpected String, singular proposal c.d. + dvd, would have to bring back it quickly under the reflectors also in our country with a total musical message, that it has its roots in puts into effect them in the New York scene, of which is from years protagonist and integrating part, like illustrates splendid dvd attached (the Review Press - Moonlight Jazz Record Innovation) Fiorentini navy, been born to Rome, where it has carried out the first studies of pianoforte with Liliana Gerace, Luigi Nono, Vittorio Gelmetti (Musica Concreta), the artistic high school and the Center of Cinematography (C.S.C). Has worked in several ambles, Radio, Television (RAI), Theatre and Cinema. In Brazil , performing as singer in various television programs, Co- directed the musical version of the play: "The Giants of the Mountain" by Luigi Pirandello for the Theatre Municipal of Sao Paulo and cured the direction of the Theatre of the Two Worlds, film-documentary in 16-mm that she saw the participation of numerous painters: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall and Henry Moore. Of return to Rome, she assumed the musical direction of the "Folk-studio" (or "Floors"), historian club of Via Garibaldi, started from Harold Bradley, where they exhibited themselves, among the others:Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. The "Folkstudio", during the management of the Fiorentini & Federico Pietrabruna, launch numerous talents, among the Italians, Maria Carta, Antonello Venditti and Enrico Rava with the American quartet- historical it was the debut to the Theatre of the MUSE of Rome - and, between the international, Irio De Paula, Nana Vasconcelos and many others. Always under the Folkstudio aegis, Production RCA, 1972 cured the sound track of the" Fantasex "(musical), provoking an enormous one happening of public and press. After to have recorded a album for the Milan label Ariston, entitled:"LE STREGHE", with Enrico Rava (trumpet) and Irio De Paula (guitar), in 1973, She moved to New York to study jazz. She made friendship with Miles Davis - already met in Europe to the Montreaux Jazz Festival -, Ornette Coleman, Rashied Wings and Mal Waldron, with which She collaborated also in Munick (Germany). To New York it directed, for the Millenium The Independent Filmmakers Workshop, varies documentary musical, between which Window Mirror Story and Charlie Mingus At The Bottom Linens. To Hollywood, in 1979, it was exhibited in some concerts and, 6 later months, in the 80, toed make one's debut in Israel like bandleader to the Pargod Theater of Jerusalem, which they made followed the stages of Haifa and Tel Aviv. To London, always in years ' 80, it directed a band of 8 elements, between which Harry Beckett to the bugle appeared also. Of return to New York, in the 82, with to the English pianist Zandy Gordon, it participated, exhibiting itself on a boat on the Hudson river, to the New Music Festival for the Floating Foundation of Photography. Always with Gordon, it realized the Z.A.M., formation with which it was exhibited in England (Royal Festival Hall Jazz Café, Ronnie Scott' s, Rock Garden, Production Village, Bulmershe College), France, Switzerland, Italy and in Brasil they. In parallel with its concert's activity, it recited also in several film. From 1999 Marina Fiorentinilegendary produces show a musical weekly magazine of her idea for 2 Time channels Warner, of which one it appears also on the web. The show, called Out Music Tv, it is dedicated to the jazz of numerous vanguard and sees the participation of and legendary musicians "out", between which Cecil Taylor, Rashied Wings, William Parker, Wilbur Moore, Bill Dixon and Ron Carter. Fiorentini navy, moreover, is member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), from the ' 76, and of the 802 Local American Federation of Musicians of New York. After this short panoramic one on the author, we pass hour to a its most interesting plan of avant-jazz (or jazz of vanguard), realized in 2004 and entitled Unexpected String. A recorded plan comprising a c.d. in Brazil realized them and a dvd to New York. Avant-jazz (the acronym of avant-garde jazz) is a musical style, based mainly on the improvisation, that it arranges elements of composition of contemporary music of vanguard of jazz stamp. Just to make some name, between "the historical" musicians of the jazz of vanguard of the period "free"), Evan Parker and Sun Ra appear John Coltrane ((this last source of particular inspiration for the Fiorentini). If but the names of the musicians been involved in this twofold plan c.d. + are slid dvd us it renders account of how much perfectly is numerous, healthy and innovative the formation of vanguard musicians who, still today, enrich the panorama free jazz American. Between they, an honor place sure is occupied from Fiorentini Navy, singer and Italian keyboard player, by now "musician American" to all the effects. It is an honor (and in minimal it leave a displeasure, sight the foreign choice) to see - and to feel - one our artist, with a rich curriculum therefore of valid experiences, produced in convincing way therefore in jazz within of vanguard, even in America. Wide space therefore to the free jazz of vanguard of the Fiorentini Ensemble, whose formation - present in the cd - is constituted from Nilton Abisay, percussions and voice; Fiorentini , keyboards and voice; Roberto Ferreira, guitar; Fernando Gatti, clarinetto; I Gustavo Rennò, drums and Tyrone Taylor, Bass. But also to those New York artists who alternate themselves in dvd - the Ira Atkins,drums; Daniel Carter, horns; On Davis, guitar; Chango Everett, drums; Matt Heiner, contrabbasso; Dick Griffin, trombone; Luiz Marcelo, battery; Sabir Mateen, sax tenor; Papo, percussions; Tyrone Taylor, bottom; Sandy Anderson, bottom; Djembe, we danced -, all collaborators of Fiorentini, keyboards, sintesyzer and voice, in a way that very illustrate the rich truth of American jazz.
UNEXPECTED STRING CD recorded in Brazil & FREE DVD recorded in New York

Nilton Abisay: percussion, vocal
Marina Fiorentini: keyboard, vocal
Roberto Ferreira: guitar
Fernando Gatti: clarinet
Gustavo Renno: drums
Tyrone Taylor: bass