I love composing improvised music and improvising composed music - improvising is something you can't improvise - the main thing is to evaluate the urgency of saying something as it is being said - the only difference between composition and improvisation is the sense of time. Sometimes I like to put more metaphysics in music, sometimes more music in metaphysics. Each tune "as the crow flies". (G.Mazzon )
As the Crow Flies
Guido Mazzon
ICTUS 147 (2008)
Audio Playlist:
ICTUS Records' Playlist
Album Details:
Tracks / Performers:
- Alì Boma Yè (A.Cyrille dr./ G.Mazzon tp. / G.Liguori p.)
- Lullaby for Duccio (G.Mazzon p./ E. Christi voc. / T.Tononi pc.
- Song N.4 (Lester Bowie tr. / G. Mazzon tp.)
- Fire and Light (G.Mazzon tp)
- Studio N.2,6 (G. Mazzon p. / M. Schiano a.sax)
- In cerchio (G.Mazzon flh./ A. Mandarini tp.)
- Et voilà (M. Godard tu./ G.Mazzon tp.)
- Drops N.3 ( G.Mazzon tp./ G. Maier cb.)
- Composition N.45 (R.Ottaviano s.sax/ G.Mazzon tp.)
- Frammento N.1 (G.Mazzon tp. / A.Mandarini tp.)
- Waiting for a symphony (G.Mazzon tp./R.Ottaviano s.sax)
all compositions by Guido Mazzon
About:
Different musicians, different places, different times: one mind about music. Playing like writing on a "tabula rasa" where I draw sounds, emotions, and closed relationships with my partners. Play music to live a common experience, to blow emotions not necessarily to say high concepts, anyway, to tell stories. I've always told the same story in my music, my own story. I only change the colours, the moods, the accents...
I think that to be free means make close connections between ideas and feelings: this is a reasonable evolution.
I love composing improvised music and improvising composed music - improvising is something you can't improvise - the main thing is to evaluate the urgency of saying something as it is being said - the only difference between composition and improvisation is the sense of time. Sometimes I like to put more metaphysics in music, sometimes more music in metaphysics. Each tune "as the crow flies".
(G.Mazzon )
For more then 35 years, Guido Mazzon has been one of the leading voices of the new jazz in Italy. His musical endeavors crossed from contemporary jazz compositions, improvised music and songs, to interaction between music and poetry, literary prose, dance and video art. His artistic collaborations include some of the greatest European and American improvisers from Evan Parker to Anthony Braxton.
