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Stefano Pastor - Topp 5
Den italienska violinisten Stefano Pastor berättar om de skivor och musiker som influerat honom mest:
To
choose five discs which represent the complexity and the extent of jazz
history it’s, I think, impossible. Yet I’ll try to remember and to
group some discs which I particularly loved and which given me strong
emotions.
The first musician I want to remember is a real genius of piano: Thelonious Monk. I think one of his works in which we can appreciate the unique taste of his extraordinary music is Alone in San Francisco. Nevertheless I begin my list with the magic Brillant Corners in which we can listen the powerfull tenor saxofon of Sonny Rollins, Max Roach on drums and all the other extraordinary Musicians.
Miles Davis is certenly an artist who conditions the great part of jazz history. Kind of Blue is a perfect session, a blue sky without any weakness but I want to insert in my preferences Nefertiti because it brings a lot of modern concept. In that incredible quintet shines the star of Wayne Shorter.
The enormous sense of transcendent of John Coltrane touched my soul since my adolescence. Love Supreme is maybe the most moving and deep work in this prospective but I want to include Live at Village Vanguard with the unforgettable bass clarinet of Eric Dolphy.
Moving and full of human sense is the music of Changes One, by Charles Mingus. How long time I have listened to that masterpiece.
The fifth disc that is special to me is Diane by Chet Baker, an intimate dialogue with Paul Bley.
Too much Great artists are out of this list. One name for example: Bird. I ideally include, at least in my heart, all the works of this Father of modern jazz.
/Stefano Pastor
Stefanopastor.com
Från Jazz på svenska - våren 2006
Stefano Pastor - Transmutations
(SLAM Productions 2005)
Fiolens
självaktning som jazzinstrumet kunde varit större. Det bevisar om inte
annat den här raden från pressmaterialet för den här skivan:
'His
way of playing the violin, is based on a specific and personal research
of a sound, that ended up in this days to sound like a 'voice' similar
for expression to a woodwind or a saxophone.'
Nu låter inte
alls Stefanos violin som något blåsinstrumet även om hans sound
är klart speciellt utan mer som en... violin helt enkelt,
vilket duger gott, för instrumentet måste vara ett av de mest
underskattade jazzinstrumenten.
Musiken på Transmutations
rör sig mellan bitterljuv musik med melodier hämtade från
italiensk populärkultur till friare jazz influerad av Stafanos
stora förebilder som Ornette Coleman och John Coltrane. Gruppen levererar också högst personliga tolkningar av Colemans Bird Food och Coltranes Crescent.
Den sistnämda med Pastors ganska råa men lidelsefulla
ton tillhör en av plattans höjdpunkter. Ett annat spår som
jag återkommer till är versionen av I Fall In Love To Easily som hade gjort sig utmärkt som maffiafilmssoundtrack.
Transmutations
är en platta som bevisar att violinen gör sig alldeles utmärkt som
jazzinstrument - utan att behöva låta som ett blåsinstrument.
