Alice Ricciardi & Pietro Lussu - Sunday, Monday or Always (CATCH A FALLING STAR 2019)

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Alice Ricciardi & Pietro Lussu - Sunday, Monday or Always (J.Burke, J. Van Heusen) / CATCH A FALLING STAR Gibigiana Records 2019

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In their first duo album “CATCH A FALLING STAR”, just released for the newborn Gibigiana Records founded by the artists themselves, besides original music, singer Alice Ricciardi and pianist Pietro Lussu pick through their favorites from various musical sources: the majesty of the American Songbook, Pop Music from the 50s and 60s (Perry Como, The Beach Boys), Contemporary Music. In a very eclectic musical program the “fil rouge” is embodied by the unique sound and cool approach of the duo. Alice delivers her knowledge of jazz vocal culture, melodic imagination, subtle interpretation of lyrics through the sound that brings her close to the listener. Pietro is a sensitive and challenging partner, combining imagination with elegance, irony, tradition and unexpected turns. The duo embraces the music with love, curiosity, intimacy, and spontaneity. The distinctive and dynamic interplay, as well as the sense of suspension, allusion, are all expressions that the listener completes in a myriad of personal interpretations.

“I love voices; Jeanne Lee, Abbey Lincoln, Mahalia Jackson, Chris Connor, Christine Correa, Sara Serpa, Alice Ricciardi” RAN BLAKE pianist / composer / MacArthur Genius Grant

“A master phraser with a fresh point of view, Ricciardi is alternately surrealistic and swinging” TED PANKEN (DownBeat Magazine USA)

“Non è semplice muoversi nel duo voce e pianoforte senza rischiare di rimanere intrappolati nel déjà écouté o in qualche implacabile banalità. Ricciardi e Lussu dribblano ogni trappola mettendo sul piatto un ricco canzoniere ma, soprattutto, una sorprendente freschezza espositiva”
- Alceste Ayroldi MUSICA JAZZ

"Sfugge i generi perché è musica pura affrontata con cultura e purezza, questo raffinato, emozionante album fatto di piume e pietre, pause e contrappunti, che attraverso un percorso nobile (ma non privo d’azzardi vittoriosi) fa esplodere i mille colori possibili d’uno spartito in modo assoluto quanto intelligente, attento, garbato." - Andrea Pedrinelli

“L’interprétation pertinente et délicate des textes par Alice Ricciardi est un régal. Elle nous invite à pénétrer des mystères musicaux que l’on connait depuis toujours et qui paraissent étonnamment nouveaux. La qualité de sa diction, le léger voile dans sa voix, l’art de l’étirement sur la note qui est le sien, font parti d’un tout parfaitement partagé avec un pianiste plein d’idées se faisant tout à tour poétique et malicieux, et en toute occasion inspiré. Alice Ricciardi et Pietro Lussu s’abandonnent dans l’intimité de leur musique avec une élégance discrète et spontanée qui nous offre des moments de suspension envoûtants et d’autres plus alertes non moins beaux. Jamais loin du silence, les bonnes vibrations résonnent et la sensibilité commune des deux artistes s’y épanouit dans un chant commun que l’on vous conseille vivement.” Y.DORISON (Culture Jazz France)

Their music has already been documented on international labels like: Blue Note/EMI (Alice Ricciardi's debut album “COMES LOVE”), Verve, Dreyfus Records, Universal, Impulse!, Warner Chappell Music, Inner Circle Music, MPS Edel. Collaborations include some of the most renowned Italian and International musicians. Alice and Pietro performed at most of the prestigious Clubs and Festivals around the World: Teatro Morlacchi Umbria Jazz, Blue Note Tokyo, Cotton Club Tokyo, Jazzhus Montmartre Copenhagen, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Festival, Vienna Jazz, London Jazz Festival, London Barbican Centre, Sopot Jazz Festival, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Casa del Jazz Roma, Jazz Club Ferrara, Jazz Cafè London, Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory Milano, Blue Note Milano, Piccolo Teatro Milano, The Big Chill Festival UK, Bangen Jazz Festival, Aarhus Jazz Festival, Dubai Jazz Festival, New Morning Paris, Koko Jazz Club Helsinki, Regatta Bar Boston, Dizzy’s Club NY, Highline Ballroom NY, The Kitano NY, Shapeshifter Lab NY, Rockwood Music Hall NY, Cornelia Street Cafe NY, Smalls Jazz Club NY, Mezzrow Jazz Club NY.