TAPE 1
Three Coins In The Fountain Styne - Cahn 6’45”
I Will Wait For You Micheal Legrand 8’55”
Love Theme From “Point Blank" Johnny Mandel 5’34”
Wives And Lovers Burt Bacharach 6’43”
On Green Dolphin Street Kaper - Washington fragment
TAPE 2
On Green Dolphin Street Kaper - Washington 7’38”
Two For The Road Henry Mancini 7'02"
Close Enough For Love Johnny Mandel 8’49”
I Love You, Samantha Cole Porter 5’25”
Manha De Carnaval Luiz Bonfà fragment
Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci
Recorded at the Piaggio Museum Auditorium in Pontedera (PI)
Recording date October 1st - 2nd, 2022
Valve microphones: Neumann U47, U48, M49
Mike preamplifiers, cables (line, microphone, power supply): Signoricci
Photos by Stefano “Steve” Girolami
This album is part of the recordings Giulio Cesare made for the 2022 Piaggio Fonè Music Festival concerts, which he organized.
The chosen location is the Piaggio Auditorium, located inside the famous Pontedera Museum, where Piaggio was born and where it continues to produce today.
In CINERAMA, the protagonists are four extraordinary musicians: Scott Hamilton (sax), Paolo Birro (piano), Aldo Zunino (double bass), and Alfred Kramer (drums).
Scott Hamilton, who has been performing on the world's best stages for many years as the leader of his quartet or alongside other jazz legends, is an interpreter of extraordinarily elegant music, based on impeccable phrasing and a fascinating sound, which already in the 1970s, when the widespread trend was to explore particularly aggressive sound alternatives, made him famous for the sweetness of his saxophone and his creative imagination. The album contains nine tracks from famous films, including: Three Moneys in the Fountain (1954), On Green Dolphin Street (1947), Close Enough for Love (1979), etc.
The album continues the extraordinary recording project that Scott Hamilton began with Giulio Cesare Ricci / fonè records in 2012.
For this recording, Giulio Cesare Ricci brought all his equipment, both analog (Ampex ATR 102 Electronic Tube Ampex Model 351-1965, 2 tracks, 1/2", 30fps modified by David Manley) and digital (Pyramix Recorder, dCS A/D and D/A converters).
This is because for each recording, Giulio Cesare Ricci creates two masters: an analog master for vinyl and tape production and a DSD digital master for SuperAudioCD.
A "state-of-the-art" system without any sound manipulation, equalization, or Reverb, compression, and expansion... but a natural sound and authentic timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Piaggio Museum Auditorium.
All this to create recordings characterized by technological refinement and aimed at recovering the original musical atmosphere. For this recording, Ricci also used the "field effect" recording technique... all this to allow the listener, on their home hi-fi system, to relive the live experience as if they were present at the performance.
The mastering was performed by Giulio Cesare Ricci using the entirely analog, tube-based Signoricci system.
