Piano Solo – Incanti

Piano International (Jul, 2012)
Giorgio Gaslini is a pianist, composer, improviser, conductor, teacher and all-round elder statesman of Italian music. He has written operas and ballets, scored over 40 films (most notably Antonioni’s La Notte), played with jazz luminaries such as Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry and Steve Lacy, and recorded innumerable albums, including tributes to a diverse selection of musical heroes, from Robert Schumann to Albert Ayler. He clearly subscribes to Duke Ellington’s dictum that great music is ‘beyond category’.

Now in his 80s, Gaslini continues to give concerts and release discs that uphold this ecumenical spirit. Piano Solo: Incanti, a live recital from Messina in May 2011, sketches an outline of classical repertoire …