Dear Japanese friends,
In this century, the Jazz Rock tradition found in Electromantic Music a label that, with "uncontrollable" passion would have emphasized and expand at the same time, the inner nature of a group of musicians, coming originally form the 2 galaxies of jazz and rock, that with the label, become grouped officially under a precise name: "TURIN JAZZ ROCK SCHOOL".
As we have seen, with Venegoni & co. and Esagono we have the first example of the "after arti & mestieri" adventures in jazz-rock. We also see the first adventures in a sort of community as TJRS in a certain sense is.
With Esagono we have Marco Gallesi from "arti & mestieri", with guests Arturo Vitale and Giovanni Vigliar, and Gigi Venegoni who recorded the album. Marco Gallesi, bass player with Esagono and arti & mestieri and a stable presence in Furio's album has also an activity as soloist for TJRS. Marco Cimino later will become a member of arti & mestieri in "Quinto Stato" and will be a member of the band too in the reunion of 1998, till 2002. Giorgio Diaferia at the beginning was a student in Furio Chirico's school, on Electromantic music he appears with his band freelance as well, with a list of top musicians from jazz and rock.
With TJRS we see the official 3rd album of Venegoni & co. that hadn't been published before, as well a live recording on "Rumore Rosso live" and the new "Planetarium" (Furio is guest on a track).
Furio Chirico appears with 2 instructional videos, with a lot of musicians playing live in the studio, musicians that in some ways are part of TJRS:
Furio Chirico made 2 solo albums: "Furiosamente" with Paolo Ricca, Marco Gallesi, in more pieces and Gigi Venegoni and Beppe Crovella as guests.
Later Furio dedicated his album "Father To Son" to his child who died 2 years ago, and in this occasion we see all Furio's musician friend contribute with their composition and playing: Beppe Crovella, Gigi Venegoni, Arturo Vitale, Marco Gallesi (form original arti) , Marco Roagna, Lautaro Acosta, Roberto Cassetta, Iano Nicolo', Alfredo Ponissi, Beppe Crovella) form the actual line-up of the band.
Enrico Cresci who played with Esagono, with Beppe Crovella, on his solo Hannobd oriented album, and it's a member of Ebano (with Beppe Crovella) appears in a guitar duo album, "Holiday for Strings".
Massimo Camarca who will play with Esagono in Tokyo is a member of "Chirico Camarca project" and leader of "Blue Indigo" another band in TJRS that made the album "For You" (from a composition written with Beppe Crovella).
Paolo Ricca who played in "Furiosamente2 and in that period, live with Durio and Marco Gallesi appears on the label with 2 albums: "Batikk" which was recognized by journalist Matteo Ceschi as best album of the year, and the brand new "Volcano" that's just out on these days.
"C3" performed "zeta" by Paolo Ricca, on their concerts at STB 139.
On Ricca's albums we find musicians of jazz and rock area including drummer Maurizio Planker (drummer with Blue indigo too) and Diego Mascherpa.
Diego Mascherpa, is also a stable member of the new Esagono, and he will be in Tokyo, in the past he played also on a concert with arti & mestieri and string quartet, after having played with Furio, several times.
Giorgio Diaferia is Esagono's drummer in the seventies and now and he's the leader of "combo jazz" another TJRS band as well.
On "il Sogno di Archimede" we find 4 original members of "arti & mestieri" (Gigi, Arturo, Giovanni and Marco) with Massimo Artiglia, that in the 90's will become a member of Esagono.
At STB 139 we found the debut of "C3" with Beppe Crovella, Furio Chirico and Roberto Cassetta (CD and DVD are coming soon).
So you can see the interplay, the interaction between Turin's musician of the Turin Jazz Rock School, a unique sound form a peculiar community of musicians coming form jazz and rock.
On the CD Electromantic Night (Electromantic Music ECMT20071 TJRS) we find almost every musicians of the TJRS catalogue in a CD that's dedicated to sophisticated night music.
Stay happy,
Beppe
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