Roberto Ottaviano

Live In Israel captures the trio of saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano at the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art on 22 and 23 November 2001, during a concert series called Hot Jazz From Italy. Ottaviano plays soprano and alto saxophone with bassist Giorgio Vendola and drummer and percussionist Roberto Dani, a line-up without a harmonic instrument. Soul Note released the recording in 2003.

Most of the programme comes from other saxophonists and composers. It opens with Steve Lacy's Bone, which runs past eleven minutes, and includes two pieces by Thelonious Monk, Jackie Ing and Evidence (listed with its alternative title Justice), and Carla Bley's Ida Lupino. Two tracks pair a section titled Tallit with another piece: Tallit 1 leads into Better Git In Your Soul over nineteen minutes, and Tallit 2 into Petit Machine (Little Stuff) to close the hour. Ottaviano produced the album himself. Michel Waschpo recorded the concerts, Nitzan Kremer wrote the English liner notes, and the cover reproduces a painting by Bianca Delapierre. Flavio Bonandrini was executive producer, and Aldo Borrelli mastered the tapes at Disctronics in Tribiano, near Milan. Ottaviano was no newcomer to the label: in 1992 he had been one of the saxophonists of Giorgio Gaslini's Grande Orchestra Nazionale Di Jazz, whose live album Soul Note issued in 2000.

This is the original Soul Note CD 121332-2, released in 2003.