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Enrico has a sound spinning in his head.
It’s difficult to explain, for those who don’t play the trumpet, the essential importance of the sound> thought equation.
There are only 5 pieces of this interesting work but enough to say how the mental process is correct.
The rest is aesthetic. As important as this is, what matters is the direct relationship between thought and sound.
This turns into a pathos that is vocal and an emotion shared with his magnificent traveling companions.
“Dream Big” is one of the many dreams we need, now more than ever.

Paolo Fresu

GleAM Records is proud to announce the release of Dream Big, the debut album of Italian trumpet player and composer Enrico Valanzulo and his Quintet, available on CD and digital download / streaming from 25 March 2022. At the basis of the work of the Quintet there is first of all the search for new sounds, influenced by the suggestions of Northern European Jazz but with a proud Neapolitan connotation. Strong melodies and incisive arrangements never taken for granted take the listener towards substantially emotional paths, where silences and sounds penetrate in the direction of elsewhere not yet mapped, but whose cartography is always entrusted to the improvisation of the quintet. The theme of the trip is without a doubt the leitmotif of the entire album, and it matters little whether it refers to real or only dreamed trips, lived experiences or distant places, at least on paper. Dream Big, title of one of the tracks that gives the name to the entire album, is, more than a concept, the philosophy that permeates the idea of the leader’s journey. It is the wish to fly high, crossing the boundaries of the family, the columns of Hercules that each of us poses day after day, to search for that new path, beat that rough road that would normally be avoided, because it is there that hides a greater emotion, a greater joy. And so Dream Big – a stimulus and omen to oneself even before to others – is a concept deeply linked to a persistent idea of elsewhere. Big dreams fly far away.

Personnel 
Enrico Valanzuolo – trumpet
Francesco Fabiani – el. guitar
Eunice Petito – piano
Aldo Capasso –  el. bass & dublebass
Eugenio Fabiani –  drums

Recording Data
Recorded in June 2021 at Marekà Studio”, Neaples (Italy)
Sound Engineers: Piero De Asmundis e Francesca Prattico
Mixed & Mastered at Dogpool Studio, Napoli (Italy)
Sound Engineer: Eugenio Fabiani
Artwork & Graphic: Studioclessidra.it
Produced by GleAM Records
Printed  in Italy  2022