Roth, Steffen -& Bruno Angeloni-
Spirale
Bruno Angeloni - Because of his generation ('55) and his past fellow musicians such as Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille or Michael Zerang, one could easily sum up Angeloni and his saxophone in one or two cliches. The Italian composer and publicist Giorgio Gaslini holds that it would be too simple and restrictive to define him as a free jazz man. His playing comprises virtually all types of music. Travelling and curiosity form an oeuvre devoid of stereotypes, rife of atonal solutions with awareness of the tonal tradition. The inner and outer struggle to find his way in the 80s' music business, as a then young improvising saxophonist, without having to work in a commercial and adapted manner, eventually made him abdicate the market entirely and to earn a living on construction sites. Enough with TV orchestras and engagements in Tokyo, lasting for weeks, and where music at most achieves an after-work chat in collar and tie. Not till this 'break', which led him to countries like Iran, South Africa and Russia, he could rediscover his own sound, sharpen and strengthen it in such a way as to let music once again govern his life. After a short orientation phase in Rome at the beginning of the noughties, invitations to the Monterrey Jazz Festival took him two years in a row to Mexico, where his vita got enhanced by names like Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Agusti Fernandez and Carl-Ludwig Hubsch. Another trip to Mexico in 2009 extended to two years. Rome was no longer an option. In 2012, he decided to move to Germany. Halle; Leipzig; Berlin. There, he used the change of air for sessions in the local scenes. Tristan Honsinger, Michael Zerang and Klaus Kurvers were some of his regular and favoured colleagues. Since 2016, back in Leipzig, he had several rather coincidental meetings at public sessions with the 24 years younger drummer Steffen Roth. Henceforth, together they form the duo 'Spirale'.