EASYTUDE LIVE | Mazzariello, Pietropaoli

Julian Mazzariello at the piano and Enzo Pietropaoli on double bass meet in Easytude Live, a duo concert recorded during the 2019 fonè Music Festival Piaggio. With no other instruments, the musicians maintain a continuous exchange of melody, rhythm and improvisation. From Time After Time and When I Fall in Love to two Cole Porter songs, Bluesette and Footprints, the programme draws on different strands of jazz. Recorded without editing, the album has different tracklists by format: the LP contains eight pieces, while SACD and the digital editions also include Some Other Time.

Available editions

• 180 g, 33 rpm LP — Fonè LP142.
• SACD — Fonè SACD211.
• DSD 64 — Fonè DSD211.
• WAV file 88.2 kHz / 24 bit — Fonè HD211.

Tracklist

LP — Side A

1. Time After Time — 5:45 (Jule Styne)
2. When I Fall in Love — 5:45 (Edward Heyman / Victor Young)
3. Perfidia — 5:03 (Alberto Domínguez)
4. Just One of Those Things — 5:45 (Cole Porter)

LP — Side B

5. Bluesette — 4:03 (Toots Thielemans)
6. Dalle radici — 5:09 (Eduardo De Crescenzo)
7. I Concentrate on You — 6:50 (Cole Porter)
8. Footprints — 5:40 (Wayne Shorter)

SACD and digital formats — 9 tracks

1. Time After Time — 5:45 (Jule Styne)
2. When I Fall in Love — 5:45 (Edward Heyman / Victor Young)
3. Perfidia — 5:03 (Alberto Domínguez)
4. Just One of Those Things — 5:45 (Cole Porter)
5. Bluesette — 4:02 (Toots Thielemans)
6. Dalle radici — 5:09 (Eduardo De Crescenzo)
7. I Concentrate on You — 6:50 (Cole Porter)
8. Some Other Time — 7:02 (Leonard Bernstein / Betty Comden / Adolph Green)
9. Footprints — 5:40 (Wayne Shorter)

Musicians

• Julian Mazzariello — piano
• Enzo Pietropaoli — double bass

Recording and mastering

Recorded live on 26 March 2019 at the Auditorium of the Museo Piaggio in Pontedera during the first fonè Music Festival Piaggio. Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci, with recording assistance by Paola Liberato. Neumann U47, U48 and M49 valve microphones and Signoricci components were used. The analogue master employed a two-track Ampex ATR 102; the digital DSD recording used Pyramix and dCS converters.

Edition technology

Fonè documents analogue recording and cutting, One-Stage pressing on 180 g virgin vinyl, and a limited edition of 496 copies for the LP. Vinyl mastering was carried out by Giulio Cesare Ricci using the Signoricci system.

Credits

Concept, recording and production: Giulio Cesare Ricci
Recording assistant: Paola Liberato
Photography: Andrea Manno
Label: Fonè.