Jacopo Fagioli - Dialogue [Aut Records 128]

Another fresh album released via the Italian Aut Records imprint, this time on November 12th, 2k25, is Jacopo Fagioli's "Dialogue", a seven compositions and roughly 50 minutes strong label debut for the Italian trumpet player who is joined by Davide Strangio, Amedeo Verniani and Mattia Galeotti on guitar, double bass and drums respectively on his sonic journey. Opening on a raw and rather intense trip into Contemporary Avantgarde Jazz with "Avoid Thoughts Of Power And Domination" before traversing into rather deep and thoughtful sonic territories the quartet paves the way for pieces like the yearning "Multicultural Heritage" and its hovering retrofuturist background atmospheres as well as the playful and well classy harmonic trumpet solo works which are the focus of "Greenwashing" which are backed by a rather subdued yet not less complex background groove section once again incorporating rather spaced out guitar modes. The interestingly titled "AAA AAA" comes full circle with a raw, rugged, almost Blues-infused Improv mode whilst staying close to an innate heartfelt melancholia not free from nor afraid of psychedelic and x or oriental desert infusions and the 12+ minutes spanning "Desertification" closes on an intimate and inward-looking tip with its folksy, summery guitar motif, deep low end end rumbles and vaguely tex-mex oriented trumpet harmonies just to provide a brief overview on what's to expect on here for lovers of Contemporary Italian Jazz. If that's you, go check!

Album artwork on Instagram!