TRIESTE JAZZ FESTIVAL
7 July 2023
Anna Lauvergnac Quartet-Anna leader/vocals,ClausRaible piano
Giorgio’s Antoniou bass,Xaver Helimer drums.
Bass notes flew like birds in the evening trees…
Anna opened with “The very thought of you”…a unique subtle style…a difference
to what I have heard before.
An improvisation over the range of the piano into bass soloing.
On “close your eyes”…watching the great co-ordination of the drums…
bass,side drums,and cymbals…like silver floating in the air.
This band could swing….inventive piano improvisation…colors exploding sparking
Anna has amazing voice projection…
Rhythm exploded from the bass…Anna communicated the joy of finding real love.
On “Sunny gets blue”the musicians play subtle and sensitive behind Anna.
She does it so well … a story of a young women falling out of love…
The pianist mixing blues into Monk…..the crash and ride cymbals shimmer in
the air….three way rhythm like a two hand fingersnap…pianist playing funky
blues …rocking out rhythm…drummer dancing over the midrange…bass implied
the drums.
Anna filled all the possible spaces with her vocal colours.
“Ain’t Necessarily so”features a piano solo with deep blue accents…from the
deep south through Broadway to Eastern Europe.
…Annas vocals completed it.
Roberto Magris Trio.
Roberto piano,Mario Cagno bass,Fabio Jegher drums.
Roberto opened the concert with Authority…notes cascading from the stage,
….opening up wider vistas not imagined… the feel of summer rain on Trieste.
Drums and bass floating in the warm summer air.
…a conversation with the bass…Fabio wonderfully sublime over the midrange.
This was the standard”The night has a thousand eyes.”
“Night and Day” followed …. broken into many exploding colour notes floating
up into the summer night sky.
Jazz dreams finally becoming true….a triumph over troubles and difficult times.
The night cannot go on forever…dawn will break with new possibilities…Roberto
reached into the lands of the east,for an exploding solo.
“Stella by starlight”…beauty under a summer night sky…unfamiliar northern stars…
Roberto conversing musically with the drums and bass.
Notes sparkling like moonlight on the gulf of Trieste.
Improvisation over the full range of the bass…Fabio using all the colours of
the drums.
Music moves on as a river of hope,flowing into the future…full of all colours
…some new and unknown.
Silver reflective sunlight dancing..
In “All Blues”Roberto speaks with authority , bringing elements of Europe
and America together….colourbars spreading to the skies edge.
I would like to thank all who made it possible for me to get to Trieste.
Haydn Shirley and his jazz radio programme “Music to midnight”
My mother a big band swing fan.
The great Tai.
Mighty Sam and Sandra McClain.
Vasi my wing lady,keeping awake on Coke on those long car rides home from
Aspect Blinds….listening to jazz.
John Coltrane.
Paul Cheneour
Cyrille and Simona
Turruna for all your help.
Nicky and Bella.
Geoffrey Totton July 2023
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