Paolo Fresu & Furio Di Castri: The Art of the Duo - live at NDR 2001

Paolo Fresu, tp
Furio Di Castri, b

recorded live at NDR, Hamburg 2001

Don´t Open Ear/ Walk About (Fresu)

Since 1990, Furio Di Castri has been performing with Paolo Fresu in duo combining acoustic and electronic music and contributing their compositions to theatre, dance, films, contemporary art, ethnic music research.

Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet live at Jazzfest Berlin 2009 UPDATE

Paolo Fresu · trumpet, flugelhorn

Bebo Ferra · guitar
Luca Bulgarelli · bass
Stefano Bagnoli · drums

recorded live at Jazzclub Quasimodo, Berlin, November 8, 2009

1. Mimi (Paolino Dalla Porta)
2. Another road to Timbuctu (Paolo Fresu)
3. Game # 7 (Paolino Dalla Porta)/ Elogio del discount (Paolo Fresu)
4. Giovedi (Bebo Ferra)
5. Monte perpetuo (Paolo Fresu)
6. Ninna nanna per Andrea (Paolino Dalla Porta)
7. Inno alla vita (Bebo Ferra)
8. My man's gone now (George Gershwin)
9. Quaiche anno dopo (Stefano Bagnoli)
10. Fellini (Paolo Fresu)
11. Turnaround (Ornette Coleman)

Yet another Blue Note band is closing this year’s festival edition; Italy’s “best in jazz since 1939” goes by the name of Paolo Fresu. The multi-talented trumpeter from Sardinia mixes mainstream jazz, folk and avant-garde. He has played an important role in the European jazz scene since the eighties.
His all-Italian Devil Quartet might sound more 'acoustic' than other experiences of Paolo but filtered through are the electronics ways of Paolo and Bebo, who often use the acoustic guitar as well. The 'live-program' is an authentic modern encyclopaedia of modern sounds, with several original compositions and revisited standards. It is mainly ‘jazz’, but is also a true ‘melange’ with deep and modernized philosophies.
Their latest album "Stanley Music!" was released 2007 on Blue Note.

Jan Lundgren, Richard Galliano & Paolo Fresu: Mare Nostrum live at JazzBaltica 2007

Paolo Fresu - trumpet, fluegelhorn
Richard Galliano - accordion, accordina
Jan Lundgren - piano

recorded live at JazzBaltica 2007, Große Konzertscheune, Salzau Germany, June 30, 2007

1. Mare Nostrum
2. Principessa
3. The Seagull
4. Years Ahead
5. Varvindar friska
6. Liberty Waltz
7. Chat Pitre
8. Valzer di Rotorno
9. Love Land

Paolo Fresu from Sardinia, Richard Galliano, raised in the southern France but of Italian offspring and Jan Lundgren of Swedish origin found each other and this collaboration of the three most melodically inclined musicians of today’s European jazz scene has grown and developed organically. Fresu, Galliano and Lundgren move within a great variety of modes of expression. Considering the fact, that the future of jazz can only be kept alive by opening it towards other musical cultures, the trio acts accordingly and presents a surprising amount of themes of very varied origins. The French touch is featured through an immortal tune by the great Charles Trénet. Swedish folksongs, Maurice Ravel's 20th century stylistics, Brazilian standards by Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes as well as originals culminate in a fascinating sound experience. Thanks to the remarkable musicianship of these three outstanding instrumentalists, the trio appears most capable of creating a fascinating whole, which – listened to from afar – seems difficult to obtain. This is the jazz with a contemporary tinge that provides a taste of the future: exciting, highly emotional and full of daringly creative artistic exchange. Thus, it aims at an audience interested in getting involved in its melodically intense projection.
In 2007 they recorded the studio album "mare nostrum" for ACT Music.