It took many years before Luciano Bertolotti could make up his mind to give birth to his own record after decades of busy jazz life in several frameworks to which he always offered a high stylistic level contribution showing, on every occasion, his expressive wealth, his interpretative sincerity and his inborn tendency to improvisation research. Here the arranger ingeniousness emerges strongly, starting from Monk's Mood, which conveys to the sextet, by emphasizing it on the soprano and contralto play, the great Thelonious message.

Obviously blues could not be missed which is featured Brain Cigarette in a very peculiar atmosphere, you can also taste funky in Valter, in which Giampiero Porta, Luciano, Giacomo and Roberto, prove stronglv to have the full right of being co-protagonist in the beautiful musical adventure written by Gigi Di Gregorio.

Following the sequence of the record songs you can feel, in Srebrenitza, the pain for the Bosnia tragedy, the feeling sweetness in April(e) by Giacomo Aula, the complex music track of O.C Blues (in which Bertolotti plays the baritone) which brings into one's mind boundless and relaxing horizons as a "contour" while the core of the song lets surface more metropolitan atmospheres.

At last the electric instruments appear in New: still signed by Di Gregorio who also arranged the song together with Tony Boselli who, with his percussions gives a precious and glamourous contribution to his fellows. In this tune the piano player splits and plays both the Steinway and a Rhodes and Roberto Giolito plays an electric bass while the Leader ventures upon the contralto supported by the vigorous tenor sax of his partner.

This band has been set up by Luciano Bertolotti, and it proves calmly but steadfastly how the music created jointly for this set of recordings represents, both an evident achievement of a general way of "feeling" the artistic creation and a further, unexceptionable proof of the magnitude of jazz created on this side of the Alps.

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