For those not in the know, the Claudio Scolari Project releases its sixth album Don’t Know this month and it is yet another wondrous journey into jazz experimentation inspired by images and emotions on which the artists create a completely improvised soundtrack.

Drummer, composer, percussionist, teacher at the conservatory and member of the most prestigious symphonic orchestras of Italy, Claudio Scolari is the founder of this modern jazz music project.

He has been the guide of this new original music and he always had the ability to involve and inspire his musicians so as to draw out the best of their musical expression.

His compositional process starts with building the synthesizers, adding then rhythmic grooves and colors with percussion, drums and adding ornamental lines using piano, Electric Bass and trumpet.

The album features Claudio Scolari on drums/synth programming, Daniele Cavalca on drums/live synths/rhodes/piano, Simone Scolari on trumpet and finally Michele Cavalca on electric bass (the new entry of the project who turned the trio into a quartet).

1. Siculiana (6:15)
2. Binary Code (6:02)
3. E-Walzer (2:43)
4. Goose Bumps (6:09)
5. Don’t Know (6:01)
6. Fireworks (5:38)
7. Wet Sand (6:09)
8. Underground Wave (5:42)
9. Sentimentale (6:12)
10. Night Moon (6:58)
11. Cold Water (4:34)

This at all times organically crafted, heartfelt and musically sumptuous new album opens on the pleasing rhythms of Siculiana and the veritably shimmering Binary Code and they are followed by the stuttered swagger of E-Walzer, the electronically-charged, adroit perkiness of Goose Bumps, before we get the translucent, late night ambiance of stillness within the title track, Don’t Know.

The aptly-named Fireworks, which builds gradually throughout, tantalizing and teasing as it does, is up next and is backed by the free flowing majesties of the triumphant Wet Sand, and then we get some pronounced melodical methodology within Underground Wave, the rhythmic hipsway within Sentimentale, the album rounding out on the alluringly atmospheric Night Moon, closing on the modulated electronic beats of Cold Water.

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