1 	Avec Le Temps 	6:33
2 	15th Of August 	6:50
3 	Postludium And A Kiss 	4:54
4 	No Taxi 	2:56
5 	Caino 	4:43
6 	Johnny The Liar 	3:03
7 	Ti Stimo 	7:05
8 	Tomasz 	5:56

Double Bass – Thomas Morgan
Drums – João Lobo
Guitar – Roberto Cecchetto
Piano – Giovanni Guidi
Tenor Saxophone – Francesco Bearzatti

Recorded November 2017
Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines

Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi leads a quintet through a lyrical, mostly original program. The core band is the Giovanni Guidi Trio with American double bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer Joao Luis Lobo, as heard on This Is The Day (ECM Records, 2015) and City Of Broken Dreams (ECM Records, 2013). They are joined by tenor saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti and guitarist Roberto Cecchetto. Guidi's previous release was the collective date Ida Lupino (ECM Records, 2016) with trombonist Gianluca Petrella, clarinetist Louis Sclavis and drummer Gerald Cleaver, which offered a comparable array of timbral colors. But the free improvisation which dominated that session is only briefly on display here.

The title tune (which opens the album) is an instrumental cover of a French chanson standard by Léo Ferré, a bittersweet ode to recovering from a broken heart whose title in English is "It May Take Time." It is played by the trio alone, led by Guidi's rubato piano. Morgan plays the clearest statement of the song's melody pizzicato, with the whole thing punctuated by Lobo's percussive accents, including keening bowed cymbals. The entire quintet makes its entry on Guidi's "15th Of August," a ruminative entry that extends the atmosphere of the opening chanson. Cecchetto states the theme in duet with Morgan's bass, and it is never far away after that, frequently doubled by guitar and Bearzatti's tenor saxophone. A drum/bass duet provides a surprising ending.

"Postludium And A Kiss" is the first of two collective compositions, featuring very high altissimo saxophone. The rhythm section builds to a powerful climax, so single-minded that it does not sound like an improvisation. "No Taxi" opens with an elaborate theme, which returns after a free piano solo—again presenting the appearance of an arrangement worked out collectively rather than a free improvisation. However improvised they may have been, both tracks contribute to the flow of the album.

"Ti Stimo" (which can be translated as "I Respect You") is an especially memorable piece, with an attractive melody that immediately seems familiar. The initial statement comes from a guitar/bass/drums trio—a combination heard for the first time—before the melody is taken up by the piano, with the saxophone joining in for an extended, rhapsodic coda. The trio has the last word on the elegant closer "Tomasz," dedicated to the late Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, a longtime ECM Records artist. Like the rest of the album, it is striking in its balance between freedom and structure, with beauty and lyricism always dominating. It is also a successful expansion of Guidi's trio into a (sometime) quintet concept, with promise for the future. ---Mark Sullivan, allaboutjazz.com

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1. City Of Broken Dreams
2. Leonie
3. Just One More Time
4. The Forbidden Zone
5. No Other Possibility
6. The Way Some People Live
7. The Impossible Divorce
8. Late Blue
9. Ocean View
10. City Of Broken Dreams, var.

Artists:
Giovanni Guidi - piano
Thomas Morgan – double bass
João Lobo -  drums

This is an enchanting trio album by Guidi, the 28-year-old from Foligno in Italy widely pitched as one of the world's best jazz-piano newcomers – on his first ECM date as a leader. American double-bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer João Lobo share equally in the transformation of a series of deceptively simple but very different folk-melody themes into collective-improv meditations that don't seem to be doing enough to grip you, until you realise an entranced half-hour has passed. Guidi's touch is subtle, and his sound rings; he constantly invites Morgan to reflect on the briefest of piano fragments – as happens from the opening moments of the almost idly meandering and pensive title track, in the warmer harmonic climate of the faintly gospelly Leonie, or in the dolorously modulating four-note folk-theme of The Forbidden Zone. But this is a dynamic and accessible set, too, with tracks resembling Paul Bley's early interpretations of Carla Bley themes, waltzing ballads as inviting as Jacques Brel love songs, frostily delicate tunes that segue into sinister marches. This might be another unplugged jazz piano trio, but this one sweeps straight into the frontrunners. --- John Fordham, guardian.co.uk

Pianista, Giovanni Guidi (ur. 1985), to jeden z ciekawszych włoskich muzyków ostatnich lat. Pojawił się na płytach Enrica Ravy Tribe oraz On The Dancefloor. Rava chwalił jego chęć poszukiwań jako improwizatora, oraz ciągłe doskonalenie muzycznego gustu. Pianista wciąż udowadnia, że te dwie rzeczy się nie wykluczają. Jego pierwsza dla ECM płyta z własnym zespołem jest zbiorem autorskich kompozycji. Z jednej strony lider daje każdemu z muzyków dużo wolności, ale też kładzie silny nacisk na partie basisty, Thomasa Morgana, którego rola w Guidi Trio podobna jest do tej, jaką odgrywał Scott LaFaro w Evans Trio. Portugalski perkusista Joao Lobo dodatkowo poetycko wzbogacająca muzykę partiami wykonywanymi na cymbałach. ---empik.com

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