# CD review: Luca Poletti with special Guest Paolo Fresu – Colors 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/12/27/cd-review-luca-poletti-with-special-guest-paolo-fresu-colors-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-12-27T23:01:28+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**In a moment in which contamination prevails, Luca Poletti (piano) engages in an
exercise that will appeal to those who love more classic jazz, the one with improvised
themes and digressions, offered by first-level instrumentalists who together with
the original trio (Stefano Senni on double bass and Matteo Giordani on drums) surrounds
himself with first-rate guests with a saxophone (Matteo Cuzzolin), a trumpet (Christian
Stanchina), an electric bass (Michele Bazzanella) plus a vocal intervention entrusted
to the uvula of Annika Borsetto (This is For You) and an exceptional special guest
like Paolo Fresu who enriches some pieces with trumpet and flugelhorn.**

The references are all recognizable (From Leonard Bernstein to Burt Bacharach, passing
through Michel Petrucciani and Bill Evans) but always left to nod aside, without
their presence being somehow intrusive. And one in particular, Herbie Hancock, is
even stated in the liner notes.

As it is easy to understand from the title (Colors), the album revolves around a
concept based on colors but without the slavish attitude that was Ken Nordine in
the 60s, but rather with the pretext of making homogeneous a project that manages
to many directions, between pop moments and almost experimental inserts on which
a polychromatic musicality rests, suitable to satisfy even the less available listeners
towards a music unjustly feared as jazz.

The color that mainly emerges, in the seventeen tracks of the CD, is certainly white,
seen as a contrast to the black of the skin to which this genre is historically 
associated. And Poletti is good at not falling into the trap of want-but-can’t, 
offering a very elegant vision of this world, without overdoing it and mainly having
fun.

A chic album, perfect for staying in the background to an evening spent chatting
with friends but that will give you satisfaction even if you decide to give it the
attention it deserves.

01. Prologo
 02. Strollin’ Around 03. Preludio #1 04. Raining Grey 05. Preludio #
2 06. Sirene 07. Preludio #3 08. Bastian Oirartnoc 09. This Is for You 10. Preludio#
4 (Leo) 11. Leo 12. Preludio #5 13. Preludio e fuga (dalla realtà) 14. Preludio #
6 15. Sold 20% 16. Epilogo 17. Colors (La Lirica Dei Colori)

**Luca Poletti piano**
 **Stefano Senni double bass** **Matteo Giordani drums** **
Matteo Cuzzolin saxophone** **Christian Stanchina trumpet** **Michele Bazzanella
electric bass** **Annika Borsetto vocal (This is For You)**

special guest
 **Paolo Fresu trumpet and flugelhorn**

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