Vittorio Cuculo, The Trio 93 - I Slept in Central Park (A Tribute to Massimo Urbani) (2023)

Thirty years after his death, the same musicians from Urbani's last band and his last concert at the Alexanderplatz Jazz Club in 1993 find themselves in this CD, thanks to the initiative of the artistic director and owner of the Alexanderplatz Eugenio Rubei , Gegè Munari on drums, Dario Rosciglione on double bass and Andrea Beneventano on piano, together with one of the best new talents of the Italian jazz scene, the saxophonist Vittorio Cuculo, all driven by the desire to revive the unmistakable and unrepeatable sound of Massimo Urbani.

Also participating in this celebratory meeting, on record and live on October 21st at the Casa Del Jazz, are Stefano di Battista, another internationally renowned saxophonist, and Massimo Urbani's brother, Maurizio Urbani.

I SLEPT IN CENTRAL PARK is a work that combines the value of memory, in remembering the greatness of an artist like Massimo Urbani, with the talent of the artists who played it. A record that represents the deepest spirit of JAZZ in the passage of music between generations, 'from reed to reed', from Massimo Urbani to Stefano Di Battista and finally to Vittorio Cuculo, among the most prepared and young talents of this jazz branch as far as it's about the saxophone.

It's exciting to know that the musicians of that time, of Urbani's last quartet, are on the album to add beauty to the work. Maurizio Urbani's participation is an honor. In this story there is also another fundamental element - the Alexanderplatz and its artistic director Eugenio Rubei, who saw, or rather reviewed as a magical vision, the possibility of recreating that last concert of Massimo Urbani, which was in 1993 at Alexanderplatz.