MEDITERRANEAN MEETING

Miroslav Vitous, grand maestro of the double bass and founder of ‘Weather Report’, leads a new project, the Mediterranean Meeting, which started in 2004 and was repeated in 2007 succeeding in gaining great public and critical acclaim. The music played by this quartet is a full infusion of sound that grows and takes concrete form in a decidedly modern tone. Its origins lie in a blend of different styles of improvised jazz, from the hypnotic
atmosphere of 1970s Davis, to a mix of European jazz with original acoustics that hark back to the harsher sounds of ECM, where free rock and jazz rock combine in electric, psychedelic atmospheres, alongside the Mediterranean and Latin poetry of Favata and Di Bonaventura’s instruments.
Miroslav Vitous is a name that features in the history of contemporary jazz, since its development in the early 1970s. Founder of ‘Weather Report’ together with Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter, the Czechoslovakian double bass player, he had already played with Chick Corea, Miles Davis and many others, at a very tender age. Today he is one of the prestigious ECM’s top artists. This record label is particularly famous for its strong tendency towards research and the most refined sounds. In 2004, in a special project in which David Liebman also participated, Miroslav Vitous was invited as guest star to the festivals of Musica sulle Bocche di Santa Teresa
Gallura and Sant’Anna Arresi, where he met the three musicians who would accompany him on his latest musical adventure: the Sardinian saxophonist Enzo Favata, the drummer U.T. Gandhi from Friuli, and Daniele Di Bonaventura from the Marche, on piano and bandonion. This trio has been working harmoniously for many years now, holding concerts and album recordings, under the name of ‘Favata’ (including the excellent ‘Atlantico’
followed by ‘Made in Sardinia’ and, more recently, ‘The New Village’ for the Manifesto CD).

MIROSLAV VITOUS double bass and samplers
ENZO FAVATA tenor and soprano sax
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA acoustic piano, bandonion
U.T.GANDHI drums