Carla Marcotulli - How Can I Get To Mars? (2008)

Tracklist

1. How Can I Get To Mars
2. Easy Way
3. What Is Love
4. Lady Day
5. Rocco's Rhythm
6. When I Love Again
7. Do You Love Me
8. Autoritratto
9. Waltz For Bill
10. I'm Through With Love
11. I Look At You
12. I Get Along Without You
13. OK

personnel :

Carla Marcotulli – vocals
Sandro Gibellini - guitar
Dick Halligan - piano
Dave Carpenter - bass
Peter Erskine - drums

Quartetto Dorico :

Laura Riccardi / Alessandro Milani - violin
Gabriele Baffero - violin
Antonello Leofreddi - viola
Marco Decimo - cello

In music one plus one can sometimes equal three – for instance, the sum of a project is often more than the value of its individual participants. A perfect example: the collaboration of the Italian singer Carla Marcotulli with the American composer, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist Dick Halligan for their first ACT album How Can I Get To Mars? (ACT 9720-2) 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 i...