Carlos Franzetti Part 3, some later albums: Misunderstood OST (1984), with Stockholm Jazz Orchestra - Tango (1999), The Jazz Kamerata (2005), Duets with Eddie Gomez (2008)

 

The soundtrack music is exactly what you'd expect, orchestral theme stuff with no complexity, at least it's not the bombastic overdramatic drivel + plus jumpy simple classical silliness that we hear nowadays in current films (although there is some of that too), and the composition does show emotional range and depth, eg Father and Son:

From the Tango album, whose title alone is quite the deterrent for me, I'll sample Los Mareados for a taste of its conventional accordion sound plus standard chord progressions, of course a sickly combination for myself, perhaps not others:

Regarding the album Duets, which needless to say was disappointing for me as well (being simple jazz of the kind made in the 1950s), read the discogs note rendering it even more unappealing I believe:

2009 BMI Latin Grammy Award Winners Best Instrumental Album: “Duets” by Carlos Franzetti & Eddie Gómez.

A track called Tender Lovers:

(I think, winning a Grammy, is something that should automatically prohibit artists from appearing on this blog.)

The album from 2005 is called Jazz Kamerata. For those like me curious to know Kamerata means, according to the hallucinatory untrustworthy AI of google:

Italian word

Camerata is an Italian word that means "room" or "chamber". It can also refer to: 

A dormitory 

A comrade, especially in a right-wing group 

Musical term

A camerata is a small chamber orchestra or choir, typically with up to 60 musicians. The term is connected to the Renaissance usage of the word as a club of artists and scholars who met to discuss culture. 

Adjective

Camerate is an adjective that means "divided into chambers". For example, you might describe a shell or eye as camerate. 

Crinoid order

Camerata is also the name of the largest order of crinoids, which includes all Paleozoic species that have the lower brachial plates included in the cup.

It would be lovely if it was referring to the biological crinoid order (invertebrate sea lilies) but of course it's more likely referring to the musical term despite the change of c to k, this being music of course.

I post the track called Allison's Dance because it's the sole original composition from Franzetti on this album the remainder are from others (Miles Davis, B. Evans, Clare Fischer, W. Shorter, S. Kuhn, Metheny, Jarrett) incl. a track by the brilliant E. Toussaint (cf. Sacbe), and the lovely Elegia by my beloved Claus Ogerman. I believe that one was first written for Bill Evans and appeared on one of their amazing collaborations which I've listened to all my life starting in university, and still can't get sick of.

The delicacy of Franzetti's arrangement is shockingly beautiful on this record too, comparing quite positively to Claus,  and on top of that he plays the piano very much in Bill's (RIP) extremely tender and sparkly style. Anyways, this is the Franzetti composition from that gorgeous release (which should've won a Grammy instead!):

So a great album mostly on the basis of its arrangements, and the original track from Carlos.

Some requests next!