- country:Italy
- style(s):Classical, Jazz
- label:ACT Music&Vision GmbH&Co. KG
- type:Band, Composer/Songwriter
- instrumentation:vocal
- artist posted by:F & B Promotion
Line up
- Carla Marcotulli (vocals)
- Dick Halligan (piano and conduction)
- Quartetto Dorico (strings)
- Sandro Gibellini (guitar)
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This work grew out of an idea that the singer Carla Marcotulli and Antonello Leofreddi of the Dorico quartet, had to fuse the Jazz feeling with a more classical sound supported, though, by a Jazz guitar (Sandro Gibellini). Carla's recent encounter with Dick Halligan, who is the arranger,has brought the musical expression to the highest level, for something that,after all, wanted simply to tell a song. A very interesting work has followed their meeting concentrating the great experience of both these excellent musicians.
Carla Marcotulli comes from a musical family. Her father was a sound engineer with his own studio in which, among other things, a lot of film music was recorded, including a good number of scores from Ennio Morricone. While sister Rita took piano lessons today she is one of Italy's most renowned jazz pianists Carla began playing flute. Coincidently, her music school also had a gospel choir and a jazz big band. Carla recalls that, "It was rare to have either of these in Italy in the late 70's." She quickly showed that a lot of music had rubbed off on her during her many visits to her father's studio, especially her feeling for melodies and her ability to sing naturally. Things started happening quickly. At the age of 19, Carla sang with Chet Baker at the "Four Roses Jazz Festival", and later in the same year with Carmen McRae. "I was a wild kid, and only a lot later it became clear to me what that meant." The Roman jazz club "Music Inn" became her second home; it was there that she ended up singing with half the Italian jazz scene.
Halligan's name will always be connected both a curse and a blessing with "Blood, Sweat & Tears". In 1967 Dick was trombonist with and one of the founding members of this ground-breaking jazz-rock band. He was one of the most important songwriters on the group's first four albums; these recordings have remained their most successful and influential. Already back then, Halligan's Grammy-winning "Variation on a Theme by Satie" demonstrated that he was a classically trained composer with an enormous range. After leaving "Blood, Sweat &Tears", he was especially successful as a composer for film music in Los Angeles. Now 65, Halligan retreated to Italy a few years ago in order to devote himself exclusively to composing.