Amazing solo album by the Italian maestro, a programme of originals and standards, including Naima, I’ll remember April, Caravan, Easy Living, The song is you and There is no Greater Love.

"I think Stefano Pastor is the best thing that’s happened to the violin in our music since Stuff Smith" Connie Crothers

In co-operation with Silta Records of Italy we have produced a limited run special edition of SLAM’s best selling CD "Let’s call this … Esteem" (SLAMCD 501). This CD comes in totally redesigned packaging with card outer sleeve. Individually packed numbered and sealed this is a very limited run; SLAM has only 40 copies for sale, these will be made available only to our direct customers, not available in shops.

"For many years I had the good fortune to work closely with one of the world’s greatest improvising trombonists Paul Rutherford and I have to say in my opinion, in the world of elite trombones, Samuel Blaser ranks up there alongside Paul and Albert Mangelsdorff." George Haslam

"GREAT CD! A big congrats to you for such an accomplishment." Laurence Donohue-Greene, ALLABOUTJAZZ-NEW YORK

This solo CD was recorded live in concert for Swiss Radio ‘Espace 2’; seven original tracks and an amazing version of Ellington’s ‘Mood Indigo’.

From the creative impulse of Giovanni Sollima and Alessandro Gandola comes Astrolabioanima, a completely new musical project, an original combination in which composition and improvisation occur simultaneously. The unusual instrumental combination of Violincello and Soprano Saxophone creates a broad crossover spanning from the two artists’ backgrounds in Baroque music and jazz to include other musical genres such as rock, minimalism and folk music, with no self-imposed limits. The CD is the official creative documentation that led to the ASTROLABIOANIMA project. It contains the live recording of compositional improvisation, which turned out to be real compositions capable of thrills and surprise, thanks to the strength and freshness of a true creative gesture, documented in the immediacy of becoming.

"TRANSMUTATIONS"

STEFANO PASTOR QUARTET

Stefano Pastor%26nbsp; violin, percussion, vocals, Stefano Calcagno trombone, Piero Leveratto double bass, Maurizio Borgia drums.

On "Transmutations", Pastor’s second CD, the ten tracks take material from diverse sources – Mozart to Ornette Coleman, pop to Coltrane, Jobim, show music and of course the blues – "transmuted" into excellent jazz vehicles.