Zucchero feat. Miles Davis
Dune Mosse

LA RECENSIONE

The year was 1987, and Miles Davis, the world's greatest trumpeter, was in Italy for a musical tour and happened to hear a song by a young Italian singer-songwriter, an admirer of soul and blues, Adelmo Fornaciari, known as Zucchero.
The jazz legend immediately fell in love with the song and decided to contact the Italian artist to record a new version of the song, titled Dune Mosse. Recorded in 1989, two years before Miles's death, the collaboration between Zucchero and Davis was only released in 2004 on the album Zu & Co. As Miles Davis himself claimed, the song was beautiful even before, but with the participation of the American artist, it takes on a different dimension.

In fact, Davis begins to transport and ideally make the listener travel with his trumpet, which I believe is, like all wind instruments, capable of conveying the artist's emotion in a particularly unique way. His breath enters the instrument of which he is the undisputed king, perfectly pairing with the voice of the Emilian singer, sometimes sweet, sometimes “cockerian.” Profound drama expressed by the words spoken by Zucchero, the author, of course, of the beautiful song's lyrics. This is my favorite song by Zucchero. Even without listening to the words, we can perceive so much, just as Miles Davis did, who clearly did not know the Italian language. A song to listen to, to savor, to make one's own, and as Zucchero says in the lyrics, it leads to a journey into the vastness... which deep down in our hearts we feel we all need to undertake.