The double bass influences the saxophone. Or viceversa?

Tiziano Zanotti and Alessio Alberghini, two multi-instrumentalists with several live and studio experiences, have developed this project with the aim of exploring and intepreting the possibile influences of jazz and contemporary music on their musical concept, trying to get to the essence of improvised artistic creation. Influences is the first outstanding result of their research effort.
With just a double bass and a soprano sax, they try to renovate a repertoire of ten beloved jazz standards, generating new sounds and colours and experimenting uncommon improvisation lines. The challenge becomes more exciting when they choose not to introduce any distinctively harmonic or percussion instruments, and let their instruments do it all.
From V, opening track of the album which soon involves the listener into this exploratory journey, to the heart-breaking ballad Lonely Woman through the pulsing Chucho, the only Latin track on the whole cd, and again facing virtuoso pieces like Oleo or Ornithology, this odd couple has been able to dismantle and remount the typical jazz music structures, travelling back and forth between its language and other fascinations, and to exploit their instruments in every possible way.

Anna Bosi (Echoes)