Alessandro Florio Trio - Back to the Blue Coast (2020)

Back to the Blue Coast is a sort of homecoming, both geographically, after years spent abroad between Holland and New York, and in sound, with a series of songs by the guitarist dedicated and / or inspired by his homeland ( Amalfi Coast) and with a more “Mediterranean” cut than its previous works.

Unlike the previous "Roots Interchange" (2015), recorded in New York with the rhythmic section of Pat Martino Trio (Pat Bianchi at hammond and Carmen Intorre Jr. on drums), here the "line up" is deliberately all Italian, with the exception of the Iberian jazz star Ernesto Aurignac, present on the alto sax in five tracks.

If many of the compositions have Mediterranean reminiscences, the rhythmic approach, supported by Laurentaci and Valeri, however, is firmly anchored in the American way of understanding the beat. Worthy of note in "Streets of Naples" is the presence of the Neapolitan singer but now transplanted for years in New York, Laura Taglialatela who wrote and interprets the song dedicated to her city.

"Back to the Blue Coast" wants to be an attempt, to the limits of the impossible, to return to this land even a minimal part of all the beauty that over the years has given me.

The disc develops, almost involuntarily, in two parts: the first is painted by the sea, rocks, alleys and its people while the second is a travel diary, dictated by that great love that is jazz.