Massimo Urbani & Mike Melillo - Duet Improvisation For Yardbird (2003) [FLAC]

Massimo Urbani & Mike Melillo - Duet Improvisation For Yardbird (2003) [FLAC]


Label: MJCD 1267
Format:CD
Country: Italy
Released: 2003
Genre: Jazz


Massimo Urbani (8 May 1957 – 23 June 1993) was an Italian jazz alto saxophonist. He played principally in the bebop style

Urbani was born in Primavalle, Rome on 8 May 1957, the oldest of five brothers. His first instrument, from 1968, was the clarinet, but he soon switched to the alto saxophone.

Urbani died of a heroin overdose on 23 June 1993.[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that "Urbani's senseless death robbed Europe of a player whose records are a flawed testament to a bopper of enormous guts and facility.

Mike Melillo is an excellent modern jazz pianist who would be much better known in the jazz world had he not relocated to Italy. After attending Rutgers, Melillo led the house trio at the Tap Room in Clifton, New Jersey, where he had an opportunity to work with many top jazz musicians. He was part of Sonny Rollins' band from 1965-1967, co-led a group with guitarist Harry Leahey in 1967, and then concentrated on composition, living on a farm in New Jersey and, starting in 1973, the Poconos. Melillo began working with Phil Woods later that year and became a member of Woods' quartet and quintet, playing regularly with the altoist until Melillo went solo in 1980. Two years later he moved to Italy, where he worked regularly as a leader, although outside of the jazz spotlight. After a headlining hiatus dating back to 1988's Recycle, Melillo finally resurfaced in 1995 with Alternate Changes for Bud; Bopcentric followed two years later.


Tracklist:


Everything Happens To Me - (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 6:41
All the Things You Are - (Jerome Kern) - 6:07
What Is This Thing Called Love? - (Cole Porter) - 6:09
Fine And Dandy - (Kay Swift) - 3:47
Out Of Nowhere - (Johnny Green) - 5:15
Lover Man - (Roger ‘Ram’ Ramirez) - 5:01
I’ll Remember April - (Gene DePaul) - 5:54
The Gypsy - (Billy Reid) - 6:58
Body And Soul - (Johnny Green) - 5:25
Everything Happens To Me (alternate take) - (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 3:49
The Gypsy (alternate take) - (Billy Reid) - 7:16
What’s New - (Bob Haggart) - 6:48
Recorded At – Malleus Studio


Alto Saxophone – Massimo Urbani
Piano – Mike Melillo
Producer – Paolo Piangiarelli

Recorded at Malleus Studio, Recanati, Italy, 23.March 1987