Out of the Night (1999)

About this title: Italian pianist Dado Moroni is better known to European jazz fans because most of his work has been recorded and distributed on the continent, but this second disc for the Canadian label Jazz Focus should help to expose him to American audiences. This wide-ranging 1998 session, with trumpeter and flügelhornist Joe Magnarelli, bassist Ira Coleman, and drummer Bill Goodwin, finds Moroni exploring music from several decades, including standards (two takes of "Embraceable You"), classic jazz works from the 1930s and 1940s (Fats Waller's "Ain't Misbehavin'" and Duke Ellington's "Black Beauty"), ... read more

Tracks:

1. Embraceable You [Gershwin/Gershwin]
2. Ne-Ne [Moroni]
3. The Cup Bearers [McIntosh]
4. Out of the Night [Henderson]
5. Alone at Last [Joris]
6. Seven Steps to Heaven [Feldman/Davis]
7. Bella Carolina [Magnarelli]
8. Basie-Cally [Moroni]
9. Ain't Misbehavin' [Waller/Brooks/Razaf]
10. Black Beauty [Ellington]
11. Embraceable You [Gershwin/Gershwin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.