DESCRIPTION:
Pt. 1/2 A recording from Count Basie Jazz Club, Genova (Italy).
Dave Schnitter - Sax Tenore
Daniele Gorgone - Piano
Massimiliano Rolff - Bass
Elisabeth Keledjian - Drums

From "Istambul Jazz Center":
A New York hero. Dave Schnitter is one of the most important musicians of the american scene, stable mate of the Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers throughout the seventies.
Dave will be touring Europe in Autumn 2010, presenting his last album "ON THE WAY HOME" (geko/egea) with a great band: his New York drummer Elisabeth Keledjian, together with rising stars of the italian scene Daniele Gorgone on piano and Massimiliano Rolff on double-bass.
The quartet will be performing music by the Jazz Messengers, as well as Schnitter's originals and jazz standards with a personal and full swinging approach.

DAVE SCHNITTER
DAVID SCHNITTER studied clarinet as a child but changed to tenor saxophone at age of 15. He began his professional career playing at weddings and as member of various rock bands. In 1972 Schnitter formed his own group in New York. After playing with Ted Dunbar (1973) he began his most important association, with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1974-79). He worked with Freddie Hubbard from 1979, recording with him in 1980 and 1981; he also played with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, Groove Holmes, and Johnny Lyttle. Schnitter's style is based firmly on hard bop; his sound has been compared in particular with Dexter Gordon's, though the influences of Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and John Coltrane are also detectable.

DANIELE GORGONE
Daniele Gorogne, born in 1977, is a bright swinging pianist, Dado Moroni' school. He played and plays with Jason Marsalis, Garrison Fewell, Joe Lee Wilson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Andy Gravish, Rachel Gould, Claudio Chiara, Piero Odorici, Marlene Verplank, Marco Panascia, Jesse Davis, Joahnnes Faber, Scott Hamilton, John Davis, Tino Tracanna, Grant Stewart, in many European countries as well as in America. He won the first price at Barga Jazz Contest 2006 , and he published many albums as sideman, and in 2009 he published with "Burna Trio" the cd "Passage" with liner notes by Cedar Walton.

MASSIMILIANO ROLFF
Massimiliano Rolff, graduates at the Jazz Conservatory of Groningen in 1999 (Holland), and in 2003 he graduates in Jazz Music at the Conservatory "A. Vivaldi" in Alessandria (Italy). He performed throughout Europe and America with Jesse Davis, Herb Geller, Emanuele Cisi, Tino Tracanna, Rachel Gould Andrea Pozza, Sangoma Everett, Andy Gravish, Marco Tamburini, Andrea Dulbecco, Jasper van't Hof, Alessio Menconi, Tom Kirkpatrick, just to name a few. In 2003 he has published with Oleo the album "Next Beat" for Scenario Music, with a worldwide distribution. In 2006 Rolff published his first album as bassist, composer and leader "Unit Five" (Music C enter/IRD), gaining great success of public and critics. In 2009 he published is second album "Naked" as composer and leader, followed by a very successful italian tour.

ELISABETH KELEDJIAN
By Italian-Armenian roots Elisabeth Keledjian was born in France where she studied classical piano and percussion at the National Conservatory of Versailles in Paris. Discovering Jazz in the teenages, she starts to perform with great succes in the many Jazz Clubs of Paris (Duc des Lombards, petit opportun, le Café Houdon, Sunset) with Xavier Richardeau, Michel Graillier, Lionel Belmondo, Bibi Rovere, Alain Jean Mari. In 2004 she moved to New York where she started to perform in clubs and festivals with some of the best musicians on the scene: Charles Davis, David Schnitter, Joe Cohn, Bob Bowen, Joel Frahm, Grant Stewart, Chris Byars, Joe Magnarelli, , Dwayne Clemons, John Mosca, Deborah Latz, Daniela Schachter, Spike Wilner.

Very much inspired by the blues, the album ON THE WAY HOME reflects a great blendand a sense of unity in the thoughts, and in the original compositions by the musicians of this quartet. Besides the harmonicsophistication and rhythmic themes, we listen with pleasure to a very inspired David Schnitter in great shape. The beautiful ballad My Ideal is the only standard on this studio session, the introduction highlights the fine harmonic sense of Daniele Gorgone on piano and the beautiful bass sound of Massimiliano Rolff. Elizabeth Keledjian on drums is remarkably accurate in establishing the themes. Long live this fine quartet!
Alain Jean Marie

"David Schnitter's version of "My Ideal" is more than enough to make this CD indispensable and essential. But of course there's more. There are beautiful original compositions. My favorite is "Obscurity". There is the warmth of pianist Daniele Gorgone, the accuracy of Massimiliano Rolff on bass and the imagination and swing of Elisabeth Keledjian on drums. A wonderful surprise. For a long time I had lost track of this great saxophonist: welcome back!!"
Enrico Rava