Ares Tavolazzi: double-bass
Emanuele Maniscalco: drums
Paolo Birro: piano
Christian Saggese: guitar






This work comes from a request made by Roberto Bacci, the director of the Pontedera Theatre, to make cd recordings of the music I have composed for a number of shows put on by the Theatre in the last few years. I therefore decided to use the formulae of the duo and the trio, which I particularly love for the spatiality of the sound, the possibility of stressing the solo part of each one, and for the potential of the whole.

Programme:
Silence in the heaven (from Hamlet, by W. Shakespeare, 2006, directed by R. Bacci)
S. Bollani: piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, Ares Tavolazzi: double-bass
Godot (from Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett, 2005, directed by R. Bacci)
S. Bollani: piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
He is gone (from Hamlet, by W. Shakespeare, 2006, directed by R. Bacci)
S. Bollani: piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
A lily between nettle (from Il Cantico dei Cantici, 2003, directed by Silvia Pasello)
C. Saggese: guitar, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
Danza (from Il Cantico dei Cantici)
C. Saggese: guitar, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
Don't forget to remind
C. Saggese: guitar, P. Birro: piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
Piccolo valzer per Ruiz (da I maghi di Raoul Ruiz, 2007)
P. Birro piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass
Ophelia's song (from Hamlet)
P. Birro piano, E. Maniscalco: drums, A. Tavolazzi: double-bass

Ares Tavolazzi
He studied cello and double-bass at the Frescobaldi Conservatory of Ferrara. In the Seventies he worked as session-man for a number of Milan record labels; in the same period he joined the historical avant-garde group Area (P. Fariselli, D. Stratos, G. Capiozzo and P. Tofani were already part of the group) where he remained until 1982, recording over 10 LPs with the group and taking part in numerous shows, some of them international. This experience was to be fundamental for his musical training. During the Eighties he became interested in jazz. He spent some time in jazz circles in New York. This experience led to his final decision to concentrate on improvisation. Upon his return he took part in an Italian tournée with the Gil Evans orchestra, with P. Tonolo, S. Lacy, R. Anderson, L. Soloff and J. Clark.
In '83 and '84 he toured with K. Wheeler, B. Cesselli, S. Kaucic and M. Negri. For three successive years ('84, '85 and '86) he came top in a special classification of double-bass players published by the specialist "Guitar Club" magazine.
In 1987 in Ferrara he was awarded the A. Willaert prize as best musician of the year; and in the same year he founded a quintet with B. Cesselli, P. Odorici, M. Tamburini and G. Oleandri with whom he took part in "Umbria Jazz".
Further collaboration followed over the years: J. Owens, S. Nistico, M. Roach, A. Gray, L. Konitz, H. Johnson, G. Bartz, M. Goodrick, L. Nocella, M. Urbani and many more. From the Nineties to the present he has collaborated and recorded with many Italian and foreign musicians, among others E. Rava, S. Bollani, F. D'Andrea, D. Moroni, E. Zirilli, R. Gatto, D. Rea, S. Cantini, J. Cables, M. Melillo, B. Forman, R. Mantilla, E. Zigmund, J. Basile, P. Fresu... Over the years he has collaborated on a number of theatrical works composing and playing live; recently he took part in two important shows for the Fondazione Pontedera Theatre, Ruth and The Song of Songs. He has taught at the C.P.M. of Milan, the Pera of Bologna, the C. Chaplin of Ferrara, the C.D.M. of Rovereto and the Container of Bologna. He has held many seminars on improvisation all over Italy.

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