REPENS
The new project of Paolo Fresu’s historic quintet honors 40 years of common collaboration with a tribute to jazz improvisation, the prime mover of the freedom of this musical art.
The Quintet reaches the milestone of 40 years proving to be one of the historical groups of European jazz and perhaps the most long-lived one as it is still formed, even today, by the same five musicians who created it back in 1984: Paolo Fresu, Roberto Cipelli, Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi and Ettore Fioravanti.
Repens is “Repentino” (sudden, abrupt) and improvised but above all horizontally upright as the path of the “Italian Quintet” (as the French still call it) that has managed, thanks to friendship and respect as well as creativity and passion, to overcome the obstacles of the four decades spent together and to live the present with the same momentum as ever. (Paolo Fresu)