Giovanni Guidi

City of Broken Dreams is the ECM leader debut of the prodigiously gifted Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi. Guidi has previously appeared on two discs for the label with Enrico Rava – “Tribe” with the Rava Quintet and the live “On The Dance Floor” with the Parco della Musica Jazz Lab band. Now he introduces his new international trio with US bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer João Lobo, and a shimmering innerdirected music of striking originality. Lyrical free-floating ballads predominate, and the tunes seem optimally set up to showcase the strengths of his confrères. Bassist Thomas Morgan has as much room to move in this unit as Scott LaFaro had in the Bill Evans trios, or Gary Peacock in Paul Bley’s groups – invited in other words to interact in the foreground of the music. Guidi is generous with his space in these pieces, all from his pen, every one of them turning some unexpected corners.


PERSONNEL:

GIOVANNI GUIDE, piano
THOMAS MORGAN, bass
JOAO LOBO, drums

Recorded December 6-8, 2012 at Auditorium Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano (CH)

TRACKS:

01. City Of Broken Dreams
02. Leonie
03. Just One More Time
04. The Forbidden Zone
05. No Other Possibility
06. The Way Some People Live
07. The Impossible Divorce
08. Late Blue
09. Ocean View
10. City Of Broken Dreams, var.