Italian Instabile Orchestra
The Italian Unstable Orchestra is a großorchestrales jazz ensemble from Italy.
The Italian Unstable Orchestra was founded in 1990 by trumpeter Pino Minafra and the poet Vittorio Curci, in the intention of deliberately not set on a band leader or to a fixed group style ( " Unstable "). In relation to the last point, there are similarities to the Vienna Art Orchestra and the early Willem Breuker collective deep. There are also parallels to the " folklore imaginaire " of Lyon ARFI musicians (Louis Sclavis, but also Maurice Merle or Patrick Vollat ); Thus, an approach to act between free improvisation, folksy material and formally designed compositions. Be processed as well as the free jazz experience of the older players, each developed through musical ideas of the younger players of the ensemble. A precursor of this group in Italy was the Andrea Centazzo Central Europe Orchestra (1980-1983), in which some musicians played, the later the Italian Unstable Orchestra belonged.
The orchestra is organized on a democratic basis and has no nominal leader. Respective project will each receive a mandate for the repertoire to be processed. In the orchestra their ideas, compositions and arrangements are discussed, before the decision is made, whether they are included in the program. The project occurs during the concert to the front, conducts its contribution to then again subordinating the community solidarity. The result is a design width.
The band is a gathering point for the most important musicians of the Italian avant-garde jazz. The cast deviates from that of a conventional big band from: a strong horn section, three strings, including a cello, opposite, the drums are doubly occupied. Permanent members from 1991 to 1999 were Mandarini Alberto, Claudio Rossi, Carlo Actis Dato - the three musicians also form the Brasserie Trio - and Pino Minafra, Guido Mazzon, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Sebi Tramontana, Martin Mayes, Mario Schiano, Eugenio Colombo, Danile Cavallanti, Gianluigi Trovesi, Renato Geremia, Paolo Damiani, Vincenzo Mazzone and Tiziano Tonnoni. Pianist Giorgio Gaslini was superseded in 1996 by Umberto Petrin, bassist Bruno Tommaso 1998 Giovanni Maier. Guests also musicians such as Cecil Taylor, Enrico Rava, Antonello Salis Lester Bowie and played with the orchestra.