Giovanni Guidi Trio - Tomorrow Never Knows (2006) [2019 SACD]

Italian jazz pianist Giovanni Guidi was born in Foligno in 1985. While attending the Siena summer seminars, he was noticed by Enrico Rava, who placed him in the Rava Under 21 group, which later became Rava New Generation. With this latter group he recorded three CDs for l'Espresso in 2006, 2010 and 2016. His first album as a leader is Tomorrow Never Knows, recorded by the Japanese label Venus, receiving five stars in a review by the Swing Journal magazine.

"I heard 21-year-old Giovanni Guidi at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia last July, and was knocked out by his combination of advanced creativity and impulsive fearlessness. With the passage of time, you always wonder whether a player is as good as your first impression, and if so, whether a record can capture it. Guidi's debut recording is here, and the answer is yes on both counts. He has the instincts to find great hidden material like Krzysztof Komeda's 'Sleep Safe and Warm' (from the film Rosemary's Baby), and the maturity to feel the darkness between its silences. In Perugia he did several Ornette Coleman tunes, and here he takes 'Turnaround' and smokes it. Guidi's standards do not come from the traditional songbook but from places like Björk ('Jóga' is perfect for him, a hovering unresolved melody on which he can float and ascend) and Radiohead ('Motion Picture Soundtrack' is a stasis that deceptively evolves) and, especially, Lennon/McCartney. His versions of 'Norwegian Wood' and the album's title track are anything but reverent, submerging the former in his own details and fracturing and spattering the latter... Tomorrow Never Knows is a stunning start." - Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes (2007)

Tracks:

1. Sleep Safe And Warm 《 C. Komeda 》
2. Turnaround 《 O. Coleman 》
3. Jóga 《 Bjork 》
4. By This River 《 B.Eno 》
5. Back In The USSR 《 J. Lennon , P. McCartney 》
6. Begatto's Kitchen 《 G. Guidi 》
7. Tomorrow Never Knows 《 J. Lennon , P. McCartney 》
8. Bella 《 E. Rava 》
9. Motion Picture Soundtrack 《 Radiohead 》
10. Norwegian Wood 《 J. Lennon, P. McCartney 》
11. Duff 《 H. Hawes 》
12. Alice In Neverland 《 G. Guidi 》
13. Girotondo Per Francis 《 G. Guidi 》

Personnel:

Giovanni Guidi - piano
Francesco Ponticelli- bass
Emanuele Maniscalco- drums