FRANCK AVITABILE
FRANCK AVITABILE
to succeed in the world of Jazz: the colour of the notes, this essential timing. He seems to have this inborn tradition which makes of him a very talented pianist and a great musician.
After having received the "Martial Solal prize", my brother Louis made me listen to his music and I am very proud to have produced this album. Thank you to Francis Dreyfus for his faith in us. I hope you will agree with us..."
Musically yours,
Michel Petrucciani
Still available (May 2007)
Produced by
Michel Petrucciani
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
1.Michel Petrucciani
THIS ENTIRE ALBUM
2.was realized without editing
TITLES :
3. Gettin' There
4. Tempus Fugit
5. Topsy Turvy
6. Time Waits
7.Celia
8. Willow grove
9. Trois Gros
10.There will never be another you
11.August in Paris
12.Burt covers Bud
13.Wail
14.Kenny
15.Bud's Bubble
16.Silence
Franck Avitabile possesses all the required qualities
In Tradition
Released : September 1998 Dreyfus Jazz / Sony BMG
LINE UP :
Franck Avitabile (piano)
Riccardo Del Fra (bass) Luigi Bonafede (drums)
RECORDED
mixed and masterised in January 1998 at Studio Davout by Claude Ermelin,
Piano STEINWAY D
#545206 prepared by Pascal Bertonneau.
"Avitabile certainly sounds like Bud, but there is no cloning or outright copying. A superlative keyboard technique enables him to take on the challenge of tunes like Tempus Fugit at the up tempos in which Bud at his most audacious delighted."
Pat Hawes, Jazz Journal International
"Seine Technik ist atemraubend, seine Improvisationen uber Bud Powells Musik machen dem Meister alle Ehre."
Peter Bölke, Der Spiegel
" More than of the already well asserted technique, Franck Avitabile has of the music in him. Intense and personal. It does not get every day. "
Pascal Anquetil, Jazzman
"a gravação é espectacular, para começar, o pianista é um homem, um rapaz que foi beber tudo a Bud Powell, fonte boa, fraseado perfeito, uma novidade reconfortante, um cd cativante - europeu - com muito bom jazz clássico"
jazzportugal.net, 1998 Best Import Album
" Ce Franck Avitabile lands, in a sense, ready for the job: means, he has. Touch, he has. The virtuosity, he has. The cap, likewise. "
François Lacharme, DIAL magazine
" Swiftness pianistique, harmonious flow, breath of the swing: in 28 years, the musician from Lyon already has many cards between the two hands. One will add to it a humor and a simplicity who please to see. "
La Montagne
" The young man makes in the universe of the recorded jazz a noticed entry, and greeted by Michel Petrucciani, producer of the disc. But the main thing is can be not in this illustrious sponsoring; he lives rather in this method of approach crânement career, as in rebours: tradition, as challenge. "
Xavier Prevost, Guitares & Claviers
" Already irreproachable pianist, imaginative improviser and composer of talent, Franck Avitabile does not hesitate in any more to take aesthetic risks. "
Alain Tercinet, Jazzman
" One is hundred leagues of Bud Powell's universe, but which importance at the really ! "
Phillipe Méziat, Jazz Magazine
" Avitabile is not that a good pupil. It is an inspired, precious follower so that jazz might not forgetfulness "
Jean Philippe, Nice - Matin
" Expressiveness between steepness and syrup raise a lack of maturity. To play beautiful is a meaning limitation when that is not the fruit of a real lyric "
Jean Szlamowicz, Jazz Hot
" discovered by Michel Petrucciani, this musician from Lyon is the new star of the jazz "
Béatrice Bonnamour, Figaro Magazine
" Franck Avitabile distances himself as the pianist of moment "
L'Express
" A sort of miracle of the keyboard the first album of which produced by Michel Petrucciani made the effect of a bomb in the world of the French jazz "
La Dépêche du Midi
" Technique, musicality, swing, pleasure to play hollows out, everything is gathered for the pleasure of the listener in this honoring to the pianist Bud Powell "
Avantages
" Franck Avitabile was invited to Michel Troisgros's table by the mayor of Roanne. A funny history, around a piano... And of a song dedicated to Troisgros "
Lucie Bourmaud, Le Progrès