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Massimo Urbani - thoughts, recommendations?


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I've just been enjoying Urbani's alto (and soprano) contributions to Giancarlo Schiaffini's Jazz A Confronto.

It's the only time I've knowingly heard his playing. Anyone out there have any recommendations or views on other recordings?

I'm tempted by his own leader date on Horo and the Rava on the same label

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Massimo Urbani Quartet: The Blessing. Red Records RR 123257-2 [1993]

rec. February 21-22, 1993

Massimo Urbani (as)

Danilo Rea (p)

Giovanni Tommaso (b)

Roberto Gatto (dr)

as guest

Maurizio Urbani (ts)

... probably his best recording ... four months before his sudden death by heroin.

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  • 2 years later...
On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2015 at 1:56 PM, optatio said:

 

... probably his best recording ... four months before his sudden death by heroin.

Is "sudden death by heroin" an oxymoron?

Some wild-and-woolly playing by Urbani on this album, that I enjoy.

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Funniest clip and interview here, where Calvin Hill says he came to Italy to play with the greatest trumpeter he's ever played with, Enrico Rava, but it's worth it even if he has to play with two of the worst musicians he's ever known, Massimo Urbani and Nestor Astarita:

 

Of course, things are not quite as bleak as can be attested from this absolutely smoking outfit, which consists of Enrico and Massimo alongside with three Scandinavian beasts, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen and Bobo Stenson (a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede) :

 

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10 hours ago, sambrasa said:

Of course, things are not quite as bleak as can be attested from this absolutely smoking outfit, which consists of Enrico and Massimo alongside with three Scandinavian beasts, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen and Bobo Stenson (a Dane, a Norwegian and a Swede) :

 

The Bobo Stenson Trio is excellent here .... thnx for posting ....

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