City Of Broken Dreams

Pianist Giovanni Guidi (born 1985), is one of the most outstanding musicians to have emerged from the ranks of Italian jazz in the last decade and has already made his presence felt on Enrico Ravas Tribe and On The Dancefloor albums. Rava praises both Guidis limitless curiosity as an improviser and his relentless refinement of touch and musical taste, and the pianist continually proves that those qualities are not opposites. His first leader date for ECM is a glowing collection of self-penned tunes, simultaneously inner-directed and creatively daring, with many adroit exchanges between the musicians and plenty of space given also to bassist Thomas Morgan, whose role in the Guidi Trio is perhaps analogous to Scott LaFaros in the Evans Trio. Portuguese drummer Joao Lobo is another highly original musician, poetically shading the music with a delicate tracery of cymbals.