Claudio Fasoli

Lido puts the Venetian saxophonist Claudio Fasoli in front of an exceptional rhythm section: Kenny Drew on piano, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen on bass and Barry Altschul on drums. It was recorded in Milan on February 22 and 24, 1983 and released by Soul Note the same year, six compositions by Fasoli on tenor and soprano. By then he had been leading his own trios and quartets for five years, after the end of Perigeo, the group with Franco D'Andrea and Giovanni Tommaso that had taken him around Europe in the 1970s.

The four played at Barigozzi Studio, with Giancarlo Barigozzi at the desk and Giovanni Bonandrini producing; Nat Hentoff wrote the liner notes. The session belongs to a short run of Soul Note dates that Drew, Pedersen and Altschul recorded in Milan that week. On February 21 they made Drew's own And Far Away, with Philip Catherine on guitar, and on the 23rd, between the two days with Fasoli, they backed the singer Tiziana Ghiglioni on Sounds Of Love. Drew and Pedersen were a regular team on record, with trio dates in Copenhagen and Tokyo in 1982 and January 1983 alongside drummer Ed Thigpen; in Milan Altschul took the drum chair. Snob opens the album at over seven minutes and Etna, at eight and a half the longest piece, sits in the middle; Lyrical Touch, a little over three minutes, is the shortest, and the title track, Map and Jazz Job complete the set.

This is the Soul Note CD 121071-2, which Discogs lists as a 1993 reissue, mastered at PolyGram in Tribiano, of the album first released on LP in 1983 as SN 1071.