Gegè Telesforo - Big Mama Legacy (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

The man, the legend that brought us one of our all time favorite albums - Fun Slow Ride - is back in the game. As a curator of quality music and people, Gegè Telesforo has consistently brought together some of the finest players in Jazz and R & B, and now he’s back at it with some of the top young guns in Italy and a brand new album dubbed Big Mama Legacy.

‘With this new album, I wanted to finally celebrate my passion for the blues, to express my gratitude by producing an album with original compositions, perhaps more blues in spirit rather than in substance. "Big Mama" is Mother Africa with all its rhythms, its voices, its sound spices and all its beautiful diversities. It is the Blues with its joyful and heartbreaking sound at the same time, as well as the universal language of Jazz.’

Big Mama Legacy swings, it howls, it cries and laughs - all with a very comfortable groove. This is the blues through a seasoned, sophisticated lens, with players that can handle every twist and turn. The core band is Gegè with Giovanni Cutello, Matteo Cutello, Vittorio Solimene, Christian Mascetta, Luca Bulgarelli, and Michele Santoleri, with special guests Greta Panettieri, and Domenico Sanna. Big Mama Legacy is due out on March 1!

GeGè Telesforo: vocals; percussions; drums (Big Mama);
Christian Mascetta: el. & ac. Guitars; ukulele; backing vocals;
Michele Santoleri: drums; percussions
Vittorio Solimene: organ; WurliTzer; piano (Right & Wrong)
Giovanni Cutello: alto sax
Matteo Cutello: trumpet
Luca Bulgarelli: double bass - el. bass (Big Mama)
Greta Panettieri: vocals (This is for You; Right and Wrong)
Danilo Rea: piano (Galaxy)
Pietro Pancella: el.bass (Galaxy)
Pasquale Strizzi: keyboards (Galaxy)
Domenico Sanna: piano (Yao–The Light Around The Corner-The Light… (Reprise)

Tracklist:
01 - The Perfect Yo
02 - Big Mama
03 - This Is For You
04 - Yao
05 - Galaxy
06 - Birthday Party N.61
07 - The Light Around The Corner
08 - The Light… (Reprise)
09 - Right And Wrong
10 - Bluesaccio Finale


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