Glauco Venier Trio - Un anno (2000/2020)

Who knows, maybe the idea was that you could do something more than someone else in the past… In short: twelve months will still be better than just four seasons! Seriously, the project of measuring oneself in some way "impressionistically" with the entire annual palette divided into twelve parts (or rather fourteen, because there is also an intro and an ending) is beautiful, but also complex and risky ... For this too , probably, the trio led by the Friulian pianist this time really presents itself as a Trio, dividing the honor and the burden of composition equally: four months each, and the other two pieces signed collectively. Something that sooner or later had to happen, given that Venier, Salvatore Maiore (double bass) and Roberto Dani (drums and percussion) have been living in symbiosis for many years. And precisely on this the main quality of their music is based: a superior brand interplay, which makes them breathe as a single organism, but very special, because it masters the keyboard, strings, skins and metals at the same time. Among the compositions, the mystery of January, the delicacy of February, the nervous vivacity of March, the lyrical flow of May, the cantability of July, the articulated trend of August stand out ...