Michel On Air: a tribute album to Michel Petrucciani, by Alessandro Collina, Rodolfo Cervetto, Marc Peillon and Fabrizio Bosso.
"MICHEL ON AIR" is a tribute to the genius of Michel Petrucciani, who has left us a legacy of magnificent melodies that still sing and dance in our heads. These melodies, soaked in the sun of the south of France, simple and rigorous, delicate and poetic, have inspired these four friends Fabrizio Bosso (tp), Alessandro Collina (p), Rodolfo Cervetto (dms) and Marc Peillon (b), who live themselves on Mediterranean shores...
Fabrizio Bosso’s generosity and innate sense of melody, the accompanying trio subtlety, everything fits to give new life to songs performed simply, without artifice, straight from the heart....
"MICHEL ON AIR" reveals the magic of virtuoso Fabrizio Bosso, great alchemist of the trumpet, an instrument to be handled with care... The sense of easiness he transmits is confusing, exhilarating and contagious.
Fabrizio Bosso (trumpet) is amazing! He subtly colors the music with his generosity. And he is a virtuoso! His repertoire retraces the history of jazz, from Louis Armstrong to this day, and this road is travelled with spontaneity and elegance...
It is therefore not surprising to find Fabrizio alongside the greatest of American jazz musicians despite his young age: George Russell, Mike Gibbs, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Liebman, Carla Bley and Steve Coleman, Charlie Haden.
Voted "best young talent of Italian jazz" in 1999, he is now a major player on the European scene with innumerable achievements as leader or co-leader.
Rodolfo Cervetto (drums) distributes his energy with both power and finesse. His fun in playing is palpable and contagious. Always ready to surprise, he takes and gives with playful subtlety...
Always on the move, he traveled the world and participated in numerous festivals, recordings and various works with Benny Golson, Buster Williams, Bruce Foreman, Javier Girotto, Bob Wilber, Carl Anderson, Paul Jeffrey, Philippe Petrucciani, François Chassagnite, Cyrus Chestnut, Yuri Golubev, Shawn Monteiro, Pierre Boussaguet, Dado Moroni, Rosario Bonaccorso, Gabriele Mirabassi, Scott Hamilton, Ralph Sutton, Luigi Trovesi, Grant Stewart, David Hazeltine...
Alessandro Collina (piano) is the most Francophile among Italians. After his classical studies in Italy, he enriches himself with jazz knowledge at the Nice Conservatory before starting his career in Italy by surrounding himself with the best: Luca Begonia, Emanuele Cisi, Claudio Capurro, Gianni Basso, Giampaolo Casati.
He also accompanies Paul Jeffrey, iconic Thelonious Monk saxophonist, in his European tours since 2006 (CD "We see", Orkhestra), and Grant Stewart and Tom Kirkpatrick. He founded the quintet 5 AM (Andy Gravish, Mike Campagna, Rodolfo Cervetto, Marc Peillon).
Since 2009 he tours with Louis Philippe Petrucciani. With the trio (Rodolfo Cervetto, Alessandro Collina, Marc Peillon) he multiplies experiences and pleasures (Fabrizio Bosso for many concerts and this CD in tribute to Michel Petrucciani, Max Ionata, Mattia Cigalini... "Success... is living your passion, neither more nor less."
Marc Peillon plays a powerful and eloquent bass with his own signature sound, and always in the service of communicative lyricism. He plays and played with many international artists: Jilly Jackson, Stephane Belmondo, George Benson, Stefano Di Battista, Flavio Boltro, Synopsis, David Sanborn, Sugar Blue, Olivier Temime, Babik Reinhardt and David, Richard Manetti, Louis Bertignac, Philippe Combelle Toni Petrucciani François Jeanneau, Marcia Maria, Nelson Veras, Turk Mauro, Jin Xing, Anna Maria Kopfmann, Lee Musiker, the stars, Jean Pierre Rampal, Georges Arvanitas, Richard Galliano, Lavelle...
Today, he is involved in several projects in France and Italy, notably with tenor saxophonist Max Ionata (« Rome to Paris » recorded in Paris in 2014) and with the young alto saxophonist Mattia Cigalini. He just recorded "Dance with Me" with the young pianist Beatrice Alunni: the duo play their own compositions.