Giovanni Guidi Avec Le Temps CD

Stunning new album from Italian jazz pianist Giovanni Guidi!

Giovanni Guidi is one of the most consistently creative pianists in Europe today, focussing inspirations from contemporary jazz and free playing in a strongly lyrical approach of his own. As well as composing his own material, he has a discerning ear for pieces his group might adapt.

The new album begins with an extraordinary interpretation of a yearning song of love and loss by the Monaco-born poet-composer-chansonnier Léo Ferré (1916-1993). The melody and atmosphere of Ferré's "Avec Le Temps," one of the classics of the French chanson repertoire, are explored in new detail by Guidi and bassist Thomas Morgan. 

Avec le temps also initiates some new departures as Guidi expands his group to quintet size with the addition of saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti and guitarist Roberto Cecchetto for six of the pieces here.