Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday November 16th, 2011 with Bernard Stepien
jazz and classical music part II: Tristan Honsinger

Last week we looked at classical musicians playing Jazz. This week we will look at Jazz avant-garde musicians tackling classical music.Tristan Honsinger is a well known American cellist that played with Cecil Taylor but being based in Europe (Italian sector) for decades plays regularly with the outstanding Dutch ICP Ochestra. In Italy, he is involved with another project that integrates Jazz with theatre. Here his approach is not really fully to play classical music or Jazz. In the recording that we will feature tonight, Call Me US, Honsinger plays in a duo with Italian Massimo Simonini that plays records, cds and tapes of classical music. Honsinger swirls around the melodies. The theatrical part represents about 50% of the recording. Here, there are statements that should make a few wakes around town: "do you like classical noise?", "I like classical noise" says Honsinger while Simonini gets into "ti piace la musica classica? Il pianoforte? Pensavo a uno strumento stanco...".