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Leaf Music4.5
Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky
Adam Zinatelli, trumpet
Leaf Music, Nov. 10, 2023
Adam Zinatelli’s first solo album consists of pieces composed for trumpet by living composers. These include: William Rowson’s Sonata; Gabriel Dharmoo’s Sung in a Rickshaw; Tobin Stokes’s Trio Lyrical; Jeffrey Ryan’s Legacy and Open and Shut; Eric Nathan’s Four Sculptures; David John Lang’s Song Without Words; Claude Lapalme’s Tarantella dell’Ubriaco; Dorothy Chang’s All That Glitters; and Karen Donnelly’s Fanfare for the Backyard Birdfeeder.
The CD opens with Sonata, a neoclassical-inspired piece that Zinatelli interprets with balance and brilliance. In Ryan’s Legacy, the listener can appreciate the rhythmic precision and timbral beauty of Zinatelli’s clean, precise sound. The piece, which was composed for the trumpeter’s debut album, is inspired by the relationship between teacher and student, and explores the transmission of musical knowledge. A fragment is developed throughout the three movements: this symbolizes the acquisition and development of knowledge, as it changes continuously.
Four Sculptures, inspired by sculptures by Derek Parker, contains the movement from which the album draws its name: Fifteen Feet Closer to the Sky. This title seems appropriate, as Zinatelli certainly takes a step, here—if not upward, then forward. The decision to make an album consisting entirely of contemporary music written by living composers is commendable. The album closes with Fanfare for the Backyard Birdfeeder, in which the serious content is cleverly juxtaposed against a playful title. A highly original recording project.
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