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Quiet Man

by Enrico Bracco

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Rest or Play 09:16
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Lionel 09:55
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Quiet Man 06:32
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L'esegeta 01:36
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La regola 05:18
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Alis 07:51
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Resonance 07:09
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Brack's Tone 06:39

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A bright picture focused on melody

The freshest New York jazz in the background, melody in the foreground. The picture of “Quiet Man”, Italian guitarist Enrico Bracco’s new work recently released by Auand Records, is crystal clear. However, as in most art photography, you just have to look a bit closer and you’ll see details, colors and stories emerge, track by track.

Deeply influenced by Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brian Blade, Mike Moreno and, most importantly, Logan Richardson, Bracco has fine tuned a style that makes his compositions gracefully stratified: catchy melodies and mellow lines (“L’esegeta” and “La Regola”) unveil arduous and angular paths and lie on well-finished arrangements, all of which show a balance that marks the whole work with a personal sound, even in darker tracks (“Childhood Lost”).

Bracco had penned all 10 compositions (11 in the digital version), and this newly achieved sound uniformity is the result of a team work, involving all band members: Daniele Tittarelli (alto sax alto, flute), Pietro Lussu (piano), Luca Fattorini (double bass) and Enrico Morello (drums).

This new phase – that started with his previous album “Unresolved” – is now even clearer. Bracco himself describes it in the lines notes: “In a comparison with figurative arts, I'm thinking about Austrian artist Egon Schiele's drawings: his lines have an inner angularity and softness, bright and dark tones. They cancel the two-dimentional aspect and suggest both flat surfaces and volumes.”

This is “Quiet Man”: a picture telling new stories to those who want to come closer and listen.

"This time, I went for adding my two cents myself, rather than bothering some big "Jazz-Set" star about writing the liner notes for my new album. While thinking about a sentence that could sum up my music, this one came to my mind: the implicit energy of the line.
In a comparison with figurative arts, I'm thinking about Austrian artist Egon Schiele's drawings: his stroke has an inner angularity and softness, bright and dark tones. His line cancels the two-dimentional aspect and suggests both flat surfaces and volumes.
The compositions in this album develop around a main core: the melody line. This is what affects the musical aspects related to sound, harmony and rhythm. Hence, the use of often irregular beats and disused chord progressions, both hard to play and easy to enjoy, given such easy-to-sing melodies. All this was already there, in nuce, in “Unresolved,” a track included in my previous work, revealing the U.S. saxophone player Logan Richardson's deep influence.
Two more tracks, “L’esegeta” and “La regola,” conceived as a suite, show a more chamber-music-oriented approach in my writing. More precisely, they are inspired by Villa Lobos' and Leo Browver's compositions for guitar.

This album is dedicated to my son, Riccardo, a restless "Quiet Man", just like me."

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released March 23, 2015

Daniele Tittarelli - alto sax, flute
Enrico Bracco - guitars
Pietro Lussu - piano
Luca Fattorini - double bass
Enrico Morello - drums


Produced by Enrico Bracco
Executive Producer: Marco Valente
Recording Groove Farm Studio, Rome – Italy
Engineer: Roberto Lioli
Cover Photo: Manfredo Pinzauti

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Enrico Bracco Rome, Italy

Enrico Bracco
Roman guitarist, he made his formation with players like Barney Kessel, Joe Diorio, Adam Rogers, Peter Bernstein, Jerry Bergonzi.
He won many awards, such as Euro Jazz, Eddie Lang Jazz, Barga Jazz…
He works, among others, with Rick Margitza, Tony Scott, Eddie Henderson, Greg Hutchinson, George Garzone, Pietro Tonolo,
Maurizio Giammarco, Dario Deidda, Roberto Gatto
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