Jazz At The Merchants House presents Andrea Bonioli Trio – Figli Forever

Andrea Bonioli Trio

Raf Ferrari-Piano

Andrea Colella – Double Bass

Andrea Bonioli– Drums and composition

Andrea Bonioli

Andrea Bonioli graduated from the Conservatory in Percussion and later in Jazz.

He has played with Ennio Morricone for almost 20 years, live on tour all over the world, as well as with Nicola Piovani, Luis Bacalov, Riz Ortolani, Roger Waters, Michael Bolton, Antony And The Johnson, Dulce Pontes, Milva and many others.

A multifaceted jazz player, he boasts collaborations with Fabrizio Bosso, Javier Girotto, Alfredo Paixao, Enrico Bracco, Paolo Damiani, Scott Reeves, Rocco Zifarelli, Gianni Oddi, Alessandro Bonanno, Francesco Mazzeo and many many others, in numerous Jazz Festivals throughout Europe, including, Villa Celimontana J. Fest, Napoli Teatro Festival, TDL jazz Fest, Sciacca Jazz, Caserta Jazz, Fulci Music Festival, Bitonto Jazz Festival, International Jazz Day in Cluji, Valsugana Jazz Tour, Jazzit Fest, Jazz Up Fest , Festival Segreti D’Autore, Muntagnini Jazz festival, Oltre il Blu jazz festival and others.

He collaborates with orchestras such as Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma Sinfonietta, RAI of Turin and others.

Leader of his Trio and Quartet he has released three studio albums (“Today. The Commercial Album”, “Pop” and “Figli Forever” ) alongside significant compositional output for film and theatre.

About The Album

“Figli Forever”, Andrea Bonioli's third album, continues a series of "concept albums" following on from his acclaimed recordings “Today. The Commercial Album" and “Pop".

The work explores the concept of always being a child, and remaining so even when you become a parent, for life; remaining faithful and attached to something primordial, despite the vicissitudes one experiences.

The melodic line is always very clear and central in all the compositions in which rather rhythmic moments alternate with more dreamlike and relaxed climaxes.

The composer leaves a lot of space to all the musicians who took part in the making of the disc itself, rarely allowing himself any solo space, always preferring total and continuous interplay.

Finally, for the first time, there is a cover, a famous song by Floyd, in which the theme is entrusted to the guitar together with the vibraphone, a very happy combination in fact also present in the song that closes the disc.

Rather distant from the stylistic features of bebop, "Figli forever" combines styles from popular music, rock, prog declined through the jazz language.

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