Daniele Di Bonaventura - Canto Alla Terra (2009)

Canto alla Terra almost touches on jazz in its most classical sense, representing only one component of a universe consisting of different musical roots. One feels an attachment to a certain type of Mediterranean, lived with the passion peculiar to Southerners... "This is exactly the case. My current approach to music is a synthesis of my entire musical experience. I am almost 40 years old. and I started playing as a pianist, I studied composition, I absorbed a lot of classical culture and wrote modern music for a long time. My piano playing guides were Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, for a long time still my language, and I wanted to try it at all costs. One of the reasons that pushed me to play the bandoneon was precisely the fact that at that time, obviously, I was listening to Astor Piazzolla, I am a very good friend of Dino Saluzzi, he is my main inspiration. I have to play the bandon the way he plays, I'm not interested in tango, my goal is to find my own music. The musicians I have chosen are on the same wavelength with me, mature instrumentalists who share the same concepts as me, in particular Marcello Pegine, in my opinion, the best Italian guitarist, at least acoustically." The problem of creativity. Some say that jazz musicians are more creative than classical musicians, who are more attached to the score, while in jazz, the practice of improvisation requires training in so-called instant composition and, therefore, more creativity. Classical musicians say that it is possible to be creative in interpretation. "This topic is one of my main thoughts in recent years. At first, I was very instinctive and argued that a jazz musician is a creative person par excellence, while I considered a classical music performer to be a kind of specialized worker. This is not the case, even in classical music there are performers who manage to creatively express their language, just as there are jazz musicians who seem creative, but actually do nothing more than repeat patterns, just expressing mannerisms. There is a more creative and conceptual type of rock than jazz, I mean Genesis and Pink Floyd, who recorded absolute musical masterpieces in the 70s." Playing the bandoneon, she makes you think about two languages: jazz and tango. . What common thread connects these two expressions in your music: "I love jazz because it is the language that allows me to express myself most freely, whereas with tango I have a relationship of hate and love, conflict. I need it for the genetic code of the instrument I play, but at the same time I pull away from it because I feel the need to express my personal creative dimension." you are in the term "World Jazz". "Instinctively, I would say no, but I understand that for obvious reasons today we tend to classify music into some kind of market category, so, in the end, this label is jazz." Today, it is no longer the exclusive legacy of African Americans, but a universe of constantly evolving sounds that are constantly polluted. Do blacks still have the upper hand in this language? "There is no one else in bop. They are the best, they have this sound in their blood. This is the reason why each of us should try to find our own music, at the cost of constant questions to ourselves. I don't even dare try to play that way." What kind of music is Daniele di Bonaventura listening to today? "I really don't listen to much music, my tendency is to listen to as little music as possible. I recently rediscovered the folk dances of northern Argentina. Anyway, when I have to listen to music, I prefer classical music."