Alfred Kramer

Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro, Alfred Kramer, Aldo Zunino – Live at Museo Piaggio (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:35 minutes | 1,60 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonè Records

This album is part of the recordings I made on the occasion of the concerts of the 1st edition of the fonè Music Festival Piaggio 2019. The concerts organized by Giulio Cesare Ricci were held at the Piaggio Auditorium located inside the famous Museum in Pontedera, the place where Piaggio was born and where it still continues to produce today.

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Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro, Alfred Kramer, Aldo Zunino – Poinciana (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:28 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fonè Records

This album is part of recordings I made on the occasion of concerts of the fonè Music Festival Piaggio edition 2021. I realized this recording at the Auditorium Piaggio located inside the famous Museum in Pontedera, the place where Piaggio was born and where it still continues to produce today. Inside the Museum every year the public from all over the world can admire the Piaggio production made over the years, all the models of the Vespe and Ape, all the Aprilia, Gilera and Moto Guzzi motorcycles that have won national and international awards over time. For this recording I brought all my equipment both analog (Ampex ATR 102 Electronic Tube Ampex Model 351-1965, 2 tracks, 1/2 inch, 30ips modified by David Manley) and digital (Pyramix Recorder, dCS A/D and D/A converters). As for microphones I used my original collection of Neumann U47, U48, M49 in addition to the mike pre-amplifier and Signoricci cables. A state-of-the-art recording with no sound manipulation, no equalization, no reverb, no compression and pansion … but natural sound with true timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Auditorium of the Piaggio Museum. Also for this recording I used a “field effect” recording technique… all this to bring the listener to live again in his home hifi system, the live effect as if he were present at the performance. In this album protagonists are Scott Hamilton, one of the greatest mainstream in the world, in the company of three great jazz players Paolo Birro, Aldo Zunino and Alfred Kramer, his usual partners when he performs in Italy. Among the songs played to highlight Poinciana (Nat Simon) that gives the title to the album, Birk’s Works (Dizzy Gillespie) and Put On A Happy Face (Charles Strouse).

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