Giovanni Guidi - Cantos del Ocells (from the new album ’A New Day’) | ECM Records

Giovanni Guidi - Cantos del Ocells (from the new album ’A New Day’) Giovanni Guidi: piano James Brandon Lewis: tenor saxophone Thomas Morgan: double bass João Lobo: drums. Available on CD/LP: ECM 2808 Release: 12 July 2024 Rekindling the familiarly flowing interplay with fellow travellers Thomas Morgan and João Lobo – the trio’s musical partnership goes back over a decade at this point –, on A New Day Italian pianist Giovanni Guidi moreover expands the group’s instrumental grasp with the introduction of American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, who makes his ECM debut here. Not only is the ensemble scope widened; with Brandon Lewis in tow, new dialects and fresh perspectives are broached, and different instrumental paths taken, inspired by an overall heightened sense of communication and Lewis’s unmistakable, confident tone. Recorded at Studios La Buissonne, Southern France, in August 2023, the album was produced by Manfred