[features bass trombone and laptop] • (Albany Records, 2018)
Comment:
Composer Anthony Paul De Ritis (Profiessor of Music, Northeastern University) began studying with David Wessel at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies after returning from his studies at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau. Wessel exerted a tremendous influence on De Ritis, both as a teacher and as a person. This recording of De Ritis' music is a tribute to David Wessel.The pieces on this recording span more than 25 years. Listening to the music is captivating. Written for Western instruments or Asian instruments, the music sounds like a successful syntheses of East and West, where real-time processing devices transform the sound of acoustic instruments into a rainbow of sound colors. Having received a thorough Western education and then traveled the world, Anthony Paul De Ritis has come up with a music that is far more than the sum of its parts -- music that is imaginative and a wonderful balance of tone colors. // https://www.albanyrecords.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=AR&Product_Code=TROY1710&Category_Code=a-Chamber
From the archive of the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust. Tuba: Augusto Mentuccia // Guitar: Claudio Scozzafava // Computers: Giordano Agostini, Federico Scozzafava
The original album is called HR 57: Conyer's Love Supreme recorded May 24 & 27, 2001 at the Uncool Festival in Le prese, Poschiavo, Switzerland. HR 57 was introduced as a Congressional Resolution by John Conyers in 1987, asking that Jazz be respected as "the designation of jazz as a rare and valuable national American Treasure."
