Artist: Stefano Travaglini & Achille Succi
Album: Book of Innocence
Label: Notami Jazz
Year Of Release: 2022
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
1. Rothko (07:37)
2. Bauci (03:37)
3. Silent Moon (05:14)
4. Polymorph (06:01)
5. Travels (05:24)
6. Vipassana (04:28)
7. Turning Tables (04:36)
8. Blues for Days to Come (04:15)
9. Book of Innocence (12:33)
With their new recording, Book of Innocence, Stefano Travaglini and Achille Succi have released an inspired recording and it is something quite beyond convention.
Stefano came to my attention in 2017 with his extraordinarily wide-ranging solo album Ellipse (Notami Jazz, 2017), his first leader recording. Another outstanding solo outing came in 2020 with Monk – Fifteen Piano Reflections (Notami Jazz). A multi-instrumentalist and composer, Stefano’s primary focus, on his recordings, is the piano. He won first prize at the International Piano Competition for Composers “G. Canciani” and Book of Innocence is Stefano’s fifth album as a leader or co-leader. As on two of his previous releases, The Hungarian Songbook (Terre Sommerse, 2013), and The Long Line (Odradek Records, 2019), Book of Innocence is a duo recording with fellow Italian, Achille Succi. He is a multiple award-winning musician, principally self-taught, on alto, and bass clarinet. Achille has performed with Louis Sclavis, Ab Baars and Ernst Rejiseger, among others.
