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A New Classic Jazz Fusion CD “Morning Grooves” Featuring The Hit Instrumental Song “MayDay Mayhem
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The multi-talented Italian Bass Player Alessandro Bottura has released his brand new CD entitled “Mo...The multi-talented Italian Bass Player Alessandro Bottura has released his brand new CD entitled “Morning Grooves,” which features his RadioIndy chart-topping single “MayDay Mayhem.” The album contains nine smooth fusion songs of rock, jazz, and pop instrumentals, including another radio favorite “Stern Memories” that has listeners mesmerized when they hear the hard hitting bass playing reminiscent of the Jaco Pastorius masterpieces of early 70's.
"Morning Grooves” was recorded in Modena, Italy and co-produced via the internet through collaboration with Mark A. Forrest, Artist Manager in the entertainment mecca that is Las Vegas where Mark, owner of Maftrust Inter Vivos, has continued to earn praise for his previously discovered artist's to top the charts in the United States.
Throughout the recording process fans around the world have awaited Alessandro's debut album as he has earned significant interest on an international level by being a very popular and listened to artist on the Last.fm music website. As of today, the song “MayDay Mayhem” stands at #1 on the RadioIndy charts in the U.S. while simultaneously also being #1 on the ReverbNation charts for Italy. Alessandro Bottura's new CD “Morning Grooves” is currently available through iTunes, CD Baby, Rhapsody, Amazon.com, 7Digital, and Napster.
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New Instrumental Jazz/Funk Artist Alessandro Bottura Releases An Exclusive
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Funk, Rock, Pop and Jazz all mixed up in this first album by Italian bass player Alessandro Bottura;...Funk, Rock, Pop and Jazz all mixed up in this first album by Italian bass player Alessandro Bottura; a 9-track instrumental journey in a Fusion experience that learns from masters such as Weather Report, Yellowjackets, Rippingtons, Spyro Gyra and MM&W.
(CDBaby Review)
-The Morning Grooves Project-
Born from the abundance of ideas (some good, some other less, I must admit), from the need of listen as realized what I've got in my head and from the almost total absence of external collaborators, the project "Morning Grooves" contains everything that influenced me in my musical carreer, from Hard Rock to Funk, passing through Pop an Jazz: so, it mustn't be surprising finding here recalls and quotations more or less explicit to well-known songs and artists and not. The title itself comes from the situation in which these song are written, that is during my daily morning training sessions, from which I take some permissions to develop any possible ideas. The project has finally taken the definitive form of LP at the beginning of 2009, thanks to the support and the collaboration given by Mark A. Forrest, Musical Manager and Publisher known on IMISound, and now on sale at CDBaby.com CD and MP3 Formats:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/alessandrobottura
Alessandro Bottura, Electric Bass, Born in Italy on June 3rd of 1984, started to get interested in music since he was a child, studying piano for 5 years, then guitar and drums until 2000, when he landed to the bass as self-taught. With the rock band NoLogo, Alessandro performed in many live shows throughout Modena, winning also the contest Suonatecele 2 that was announced by La Tenda. From 2002, He started the Accademia di Musica in Modena, Italy following both the theory class taken by M Giuseppe La Monica and the instrument course with M Enrico Lazzarini 2002-2006 and M Glauco Zuppiroli 2006-2007. From 2004 to 2006, He was playing with the band Landslide Ladies, getting gigs all across Italy: Milano, Torino, Roma, Venezia, Padova, Vicenza, Bologna, Bari, etc. In 2007, He had earned a Degree in Music at the D.A.M.S. of Bologna, in the same year, Alessandro attended the One Week Intensive program at the Jeff Berlins Players School Of Music in Clearwater, Tampa, FL. auditing to Master classes by Larry Coryell, Gumbi Ortiz and Richard Dreixler. He is currently studying at PercentoMusica in Roma with Masters Massimo Moriconi, Pierpaolo Ranieri, Mario Guarini and Luca Pirozzi Electric Bass, Massimo Fedeli (playing ensembles and improvisation), Aldo Fedele (playing ensembles), Andrea Avena and Stefano Scatozza (music theory), Fabrizio Aiello (rythmical awareness). He continues the studies also at the Accademia Di Musica in Modena, Italy following the improvement classes held by M Giuseppe La Monica. Alessandro is always striving to perfect his songwriting and playing skills constantly by making his collegiate experiences an actual part of his creativity methods.
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"Morning Grooves" CD Reviewed by RadioIndy.com - Alessandro Bottura
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Jaco Pastorius would be proud to hear the bass chops of jazz artist Alessandro Bottura. His latest r...Jaco Pastorius would be proud to hear the bass chops of jazz artist Alessandro Bottura. His latest record, “Morning Grooves” is a smooth fusion of rock, jazz, and pop instrumentals all rolled into one amazing sound. Bottura’s bass playing speaks for itself and is immediately evident right from the opening track, “Out of Sight.” His jazz fueled bass runs fly up and down the neck and are nicely driven by some outstanding guitar/drum work. Bottura changes gears a bit and slow things down on “Sweet Tears,” which also highlights his staccato playing skills. Any fan of Jaco Pastorius or of virtuoso bass playing will love this album, plus the band behind Bottura is just as exceptional as he.
-Shaun H. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team
Check out Alessandro Bottura's music on RadioIndy.com with link to purchase and links to popular sites
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“Rock Impressions” Review
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Italian musical information website “Rock Impressions”. Here it is:
“Times are changed compared t...Italian musical information website “Rock Impressions”. Here it is:
“Times are changed compared to 70s, 80s and 90s, music tries to derive benefits from the net. This modern weapon, indissolubly tied to computer, allows to been known and self-product oneself in the eyes of the whole world. Recording studios and producing companies are less and less useful, but that isn’t totally a negative side for music’s future. Thousands of musical talents all around the world, without internet, would have been remained anonymous. That’s the case of Alessandro Bottura, a local and valid multi-instrumentalist. Bottura loves to play mainly the bass and the way of playing recalls inexorably to the mind the name of Jaco Pastorius. So, we’re talking’ about a Rock Jazz with flashes of Fusion. Surely to the more attentive of you, Bottura’s name doesn’t sound new, and in fact Last.fm surely made it work.
The track “May Day Mayhem”, then, is topping the RadioIndy’s chart in America and the Reverbnation’s one here in Italy. This is why we can find “Morning Grooves” on Amazon.com, I-Tunes, CdBaby, Napster and much more websites of that kind. Internet is a stab in the back of the musical business because of wild downloading, but at the same time is an inexhaustible forge of brand new artists. “Out Of Sight” is a track that immediately displays the artist’s gifts and opens more than worthily the CD. Personally, I love very much the warm sound of the bass and this heats me inside, making me immediately endear this music. I don’t hide that I’ve been a big fan of the Canadian band Uzeb and those of you that knows them can understand what I mean for warm sound, even Bottura himself, I think. Jazz improvisation, good guitar solos and some nice drum roll, accompany the listening. And it’s not by chance that the second track has named “Mind, Passion & Instinct”, the real summary of “Morning Grooves”, valid more than a thousand words…But pay attention, we’re not listening to a self-celebratory record, although all the ingredients leads to that, there’s also heart and really melodic piano moments. There’s joy in “Quetzalcoatl”, so much that the foot starts to beat track rhythm by itself. Delightful is also the dynamism of the guitar in the final of “Deaf Kids’ Disco”, but, as I told before, the record star is “May Day Mayhem”. Dragging rhythm and explosive bass, it represents Alessandro Bottura’s present sound at his best.
All the record is very pleasant to be listened and flows away quickly in his nine tracks and fifty minutes. Surely, it isn’t all a bed of roses, let’s come to the faults (even if little), I think that sometimes there’s a need to dare more, for what concern the writing side. That’s giving a stylistic paw, too often (but that’s also a genre's fault) some deja-vus come to the mind. The second mole is a little critic, personally I’m still tied to certain canons, so that, for me, the artwork is still important, a completion of the whole work..and here things don’t go well at all. For everything else, boys, let’s give a listen to this new Italian artist, you won’t regret. Meanwhile, welcome and good luck to Alessandro Bottura”
- Massimo Salari for “Rock Impressions”
