Trumpeter Fulvio Sigurtà initially got here from Italy to the UK in 2004, to finish his research with a Masters at Guildhall College…after which stayed right here for fourteen years.

He’s now based mostly in Italy once more full-time, and has established a powerful presence on the scene. He’s excited by his new group with Stefano Onorati, Alessandro Paternesi and Gabriele Evangelista. They take their musical function mannequin from “the quintessence of danger, and due to this fact the quintessence of belief” of Wayne Shorter’s final quartet, and have simply launched an album ‘Prolonged Singularity’ (Caligola Information), the newest addition to the trumpeter’s star-studded discography (hyperlink beneath). Interview by Sebastian.

LondonJazz Information: Take us again….After your research at Guildhall, how did you get established on the London scene?

Fulvio Sigurtà. I received into the scene fairly rapidly, particularly due to a pricey pal, Graham Fox, who isn’t with us anymore sadly, however whom I’d like to recollect on this interview. I miss him lots. Anyway, I began doing gigs virtually instantly, taking part in many various kinds of music. I don’t know what it’s like now, however in 2004 London was very open in the direction of new musicians on the town.

LJN: What are your greatest reminiscences of your time in London ?

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FS: I suppose the truth that the town it’s so cosmopolitan and that you just would possibly find yourself taking part in and hanging out with folks from everywhere in the world has all the time been fascinating to me. I like attending to know different cultures. That’s most likely why my preliminary intention of staying for one yr grew to become 14 years of my life.

LJN: You now have an lively dwell as a participant and trainer in Italy. Inform our readers extra about that.

FS: In December 2014. when my London life was fairly settled, and I had no plans to return to Italy to dwell, I acquired a cellphone name from my pal Marco Tamburini to dep him out on the Siena Jazz summer season seminar as a result of he was busy. That was future calling. Marco then had a horrible accident in 2015 and I received requested to take over all his instructing. I attempted for the subsequent few years to remain in London, educate in Italy…and play wherever…however it was exhausting, costly and never precisely carbon-friendly. So now I’m fortunately again in Italy however lacking my London associates lots, after all.

LJN: And it seems like you’re near the center of the Italian scene..

FS: Over time I received concerned in lots of initiatives. I like to be a part of bands, I don’t see myself taking part in completely with my very own band. Enjoying and finding out different folks’s music , making an attempt to place my very own persona and examine to serve different folks’s music it has all the time been my precedence, my job on this world and i attempt to do it at my greatest. So that’s most likely why I received to play with many established jazz musicians in Italy. I really feel I’m fortunate.

LJN: How did you meet the band mates in your album and what has drawn you to wish to file with them?

LJN: I began a duo with Stefano Onorati a couple of years again, taking part in some originals and different music from our heroes: Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Keith Jarrett. However then we needed to do an experiment so we requested drummer Alessandro Paternesi, with whom I performed and recorded lots during the last ten years, to affix us. We did a couple of gigs as a trio, utilizing plenty of electronics. Then we requested Alessandro to decide on the bass participant for the band. His alternative was Gabriele Evangelista, proper now essentially the most in-demand bass participant in Italy (Rava , Bollani …you identify it) They know one another effectively and so they love taking part in collectively. From the primary gig we discovered that there was one thing fairly distinctive on this quartet.

LJN: ...and what are the stuff you like and which resonate with you of their taking part in…?

FS: Alessandro , who is a good straight forward jazz drummer has a classical background . In the previous couple of years he took a really private musical path , taking part in open and lyrical however inside a powerful sense of groove. He can play extraordinarily sparse and nonetheless make your physique transfer. Similar for Gabriele, whose taking part in is all the time unpredictable and but so clear .

LJN: And also you collectively take inspiration from the final Wayne Shorter Quartet. What elements of their method of working do you attempt to deliver to life?

FS: For all of us, the final Shorter quartet represents the height of what it means to play with freedom and the best way to handle the vitality inside the music. The truth that it’s not about what you play in your single instrument however how what you play matches within the collective route of the music, second by second. It’s a complete no-ego type of taking part in the place concepts are dosed rigorously and brought in very severe consideration by everybody. To me it’s the quintessence of danger, and due to this fact the quintessence of belief. Shorter began this course of way back, within the Plugged Nickel recordings.

Within the band we by no means speak concerning the music we’re about to play. It’s not mandatory and any route the music takes is only a new alternative.

LJN: Do you are taking naturally to the function of bandleader and the way does it work with these musicians?

FS: Stefano and I are in some methods each the leaders of this quartet, primarily as a result of we write the music for it. Each band wants someone that takes care of discovering gigs and stuff however, musically talking, this band does probably not want a frontrunner. Truly fairly the other.

LJN: Inform us concerning the album and the way it’s put collectively…

FS: The music that we recorded on this first album is a setlist of let’s say 9 completely different moods. Beginning with a gradual shuffle (A second after which), transferring to a extra up to date melody that leads the band to play fairly suspended the entire time (Quintessence) . Then now we have a moderately epic vibe (Thrills) adopted by a mysterious ballad (OsloTwilight) .

“Parallel Dimension” is a dense and busy up to date jazz tune. “Swami” is predicated on a Korvai my Indian music trainer taught me a couple of years in the past . Then now we have an open and lyrical tune known as “Out of the Blue”. To comply with, there’s a form of jazz waltz, paying homage to what we now name European jazz (Nighthawks) and , to finish , (First Scene) is yet one more filmic melody to say “ hey …goodbye! See you within the subsequent scene!”

LINKS: The quartet on Fb Reside from 2023
Fulvio’s website / discography
Trainer profile/ biography at Rovigo Conservatoire