EXTASY MORRICONE: Live at The Count's

EXTASY MORRICONE celebrates the jazz-influenced, psychedelic, progressive and adventurous side of Ennio Morricone's film music from the late 60s to the early 80s through a collection of vocal songs with unexpected and mesmerising lyrics by some of Italy’s finest vocalists - a show for music and cinephiles alike!

Ennio Morricone is acclaimed as one of the most innovative composers of the twentieth century. He composed music that was commercially accessible to a universal audience without renouncing his experimental or contemporary compositional techniques. His unconventional instrumentation and the use of the human voice as a melodic instrument are integral to his unrelenting determination to find a unique sound for each score.

EXTASY MORRICONE is a celebration of his quest for uniqueness.

Recipient of the 2021 ABC Classical and Jazz Composer and Commissioning fund, Tuscan-born Ilaria Crociani leads her stunning band through a captivating program of Morricone’s collection of songs sung by the great Alberto Bevilacqua, Carlo Nistri, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Carlo Carunchio, Luciano Lucignani, and Maria Travia.

Ilaria Crociani, voice
Mirko Guerrini, saxes, clarinet, flutes
Gianni Marinucci, trumpet, flugelhorn
Darrin Archer, piano
Ryan Griffith, guitars
Ben Robertson, double bass
Niko Schäuble, drums, percussions