This box set brings together three major albums by Riccardo Del Fra, an essential double bassist and composer on the European jazz scene. From the intimacy of the duets on A Sip of Your Touch, a sensitive and deeply personal tribute, to the ambitious orchestral writing of My Chet My Song, Riccardo Del Fra explores the legacy of Chet Baker while reinventing it. With Moving People, he anchors his approach in a resolutely contemporary language: open, committed music inspired by the upheavals of today’s world. Through these three complementary facets emerges the portrait of a complete musician, exploring and reshaping memory while always looking to the future, for whom sound, silence and precision remain essential. A reference box set for understanding the aesthetic of the great Italian double bassist.
Augustin BONDOUX / Patrick FRÉMEAUX

CD 1 - A Sip Of Your Touch
1. A Sip Of Your Touch (Riccardo Del Fra) 5’34
2. Do You Feel What I Feel (Rachel Gould) 2’41
3. I’m Old Fashioned (J. Mercer - J. Kern) 7’33
4. Lover Man (J. Sherman-J. Davis - R. Ramirez) 6’01
5. Chet (Enrico Pieranunzi) 4’41
6. Leaving (Richard Beirach) 5’15
7. But Not For Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 3’25
8. Akita View (Riccardo Del Fra) 5’45
9. Piantranese (Riccardo Del Fra) 2’27
10. I remember You (J. Mercer-V. Schertzinger) 5’15
11. There Will Never Be Another You (Warren-Gordon) 3’53
12. But Not For Me (George & Ira Gershwin) 5’15
13. For All We Know (J. Fred Coots-Sam M. Lewis) 5’09

CD 2 - My Chet My Song
1. I’m A Fool To Want You (Jack Wolf / Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra) 11’10
2. Love For Sale (C. Porter) 7’40 / Wayne’s Whistle (R. Del Fra) 2’52 TOTAL : 10’32
3. I Remember You (Victor Schertzinger / Johnny Mercer) 10’10
4. Wind On An Open Book (Riccardo Del Fra) 4’59
5. For All We Know (J. Fred Coots / Sam M. Lewis) 12’10
6. But Not For Me (G. & I. Gershwin) 4’00 / Oklahoma Kid (R. Del Fra) 3’39 TOTAL : 7’39
7. The Bells And The Island (Riccardo Del Fra) 2’52
8. My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart) 5’27

CD 3 – Moving People
1. Moving People (Riccardo Del Fra) 7’48
2. Ressac (Riccardo Del Fra) 7’15
3. The Sea Behind (Riccardo Del Fra) 7’59
4. Children Walking (Through A Minefield) (Riccardo Del Fra) 4’37
5. Around The Fire (Riccardo Del Fra) 1’59
6. Ephemeral Refractions (Riccardo Del Fra) 4’24
7. Wind On An Open Book II (Riccardo Del Fra) 5’26
8. Street Scenes (Riccardo Del Fra) 3’09
9. Moving People - Epilogue (Riccardo Del Fra) 2’52
10. Cieli Sereni (Riccardo Del Fra) 2’03