Chi ha fottuto Donald Duck?

Chi ha fottuto Donald Duck? a title that embodies all the non-conformism and the desire to transgress the rules that distinguish the Donald Duck Trio. A journey through the music that made the history of their genre, from the most extreme rock of the Cure to the melodic one of Coldplay, up to the classic of jazz, Miles Davis. And also original pieces composed by the musicians could not be missing.

Diego Morga on piano, Camillo Pace on doublebass and Lello Patruno on drums: three eclectic musicians for an equally heterogeneous album. Their journey starts with Peter Gabriel Don’t give up, one of the best known songs in the history of rock and they give a reinterpretation that is very delicate thanks to the light touch of Morga and above all to the remarkable interpretative skills of Marialuisa Capurso. The singer also lends her voice for a suggestive version of A forest by The Cure; these are probably the most successful songs of the whole cd. In general, in fact, the album features eleven songs that seem unrelated to each other, in which it is a bit difficult to recognize the jazz matrix most evident in the compositions of Morga and Patruno and in the clear reference to Miles Davis Blue In Green. What you notice instead is a letting go often to what are the patterns of rock, even to progressive, especially on the part of percussion. A bit surreal the reinterpretation of the Beatles Come together in which there is a mix of rap, lyric, rock and even some jazz nuances. Quite particular the arrangement of The Scientist, especially for the combination of piano and brushes, but once again the piece turns towards something that is easier to label as rock than jazz.

The Donald Duck Trio exaggerates the contamination between genres to the nth degree and shows a great desire to stand out and do something alternative to what today characterizes the Italian jazz scene. The title of the album itself places the three musicians already outside the ordinary schemes. The question remains whether what they do is still part of jazz or goes too far, in any case the great skill of the musicians must be recognized, in particular Morga who on the piano has such a dynamic and delicate touch as to add value to each piece.

Nina Molica Franco per Jazzitalia.net