The world premiere of Around Miles & Trane, staged on 24 February at the Teatro Palamostre as part of the Note Nuove series curated by Euritmica, takes place within one of these moments of rupture: it creates a crossfade between Miles Davis and John Coltrane at the point when both leave one centre behind in search of another – Miles moving towards the electric, Coltrane towards an increasingly inward spirituality. Roberto Gatto approaches these two masters at the most unstable point in their trajectories, when their musical language changes direction and time loses its axis. The project is built around a precise structural logic: thematic grafts, not juxtapositions but internal interferences that constantly redefine the listener’s perception. The quintet avoids rigid configurations. On drums, Gatto constructs an articulated sense of time: the ride provides direction through a distribution that disrupts the periodicity of the beat and modulates sonic pressure across […]
