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                                                            – Dick Hyman

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A Dazzling Duo: Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick

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• March 31, 2020
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In early November, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi were my house guests for several days while they played concerts in the area. That made them captives for this interview. Unless otherwise noted, my questions were directed at both of them.

BH: When & how did you first get into piano playing?

PA: I started at age 8 when a schoolmate was playing piano and I was fascinated. We always had music at home. My dad plays banjo, harmonica, and double bass. My mother stopped playing piano after high school. My older brother played the clarinet and sax. We had a little family band that played American songs. I wanted to join them, so I had to learn some chords. At age 10 I entered the conservatory in Milan and graduated at 20. When I was about 16 I started playing with an amateur trad jazz band.

ST: I was 5 years old when I was out for dinner with my parents and grandmother where a pianist was playing background music. I was captivated but said nothing, as I was very shy. My grandmother asked the pianist if she gave lessons. She became my teacher for the next 13 years. I learned how to read music before I learned to read words! I received classical training but she also introduced me to ragtime. I entered some local competitions. Then she introduced me to stride piano, and that became my main interest. She still follows my career.

As you were learning, who were your inspirations?

ST: James P. Johnson , Thomas “Fats” Waller , Donald Lambert, Willie “the Lion” Smith , Art Tatum , some of the second-generation stride pianists like Dick Hyman , Ralph Sutton, Dick Wellstood, plus Dave McKenna, Albert Ammons, Nat King Cole , Teddy Wilson , and many others.

PA: I started listening to the music my father collected. Earl Hines and Fats Waller were early favorites. At age 12 or 13 I got a CD of Lenny Tristano. I had no idea at that time what he was playing. It was mainly conceptual music and I was too young to fully understand it. When I got an Erroll Garner CD I was immediately inspired by him. I bought everything of his I could find with the money I made with the amateur band. When you’re young you try to learn everything, so I could not ignore people like Oscar Peterson or Hank Jones and Teddy Wilson. I learned that if you don’t like something now, you might like it later.

Did either of you ever see any of your idols perform?

ST: One of my idols is Dick Hyman , and I met him at the Arbors Records jazz party in 2011. Then, a few years later, two days after Paolo and I got married, I was part of a stride summit at SFJAZZ in San Francisco with Dick as well as stride pianist Mike Lipskin. It was exciting to get to play a duet with Dick. I also transcribed one of his arrangements at his request for his book, Century of Jazz Piano .

PA: Living in Europe, I saw Oscar Peterson once, Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan a few times. In 2007 I organized a piano summit with Dick Hyman in Novara, Italy. The last time he had performed in Italy was 50 years earlier—with Benny Goodman!

When and where did you meet, and what made you decide to collaborate?

ST: We met in 2008 in Boswil, Switzerland, at a stride summit. There were six pianists and two grand pianos. All the stride aficionados in Europe flocked to this festival every year.

PA: I had been to Boswil a few times before. At that 2008 stride summit, I had a chance to play a few tunes with Stephanie, with no rehearsal. I had no idea there were any young women interested in stride. We saw each other again in Italy during Stephanie’s European tour. Then we were both invited to the Arbors Records jazz party in Clearwater in 2011.

The year after, I arranged a few concerts in Europe where we presented a history of jazz piano. We played individually, but the last number was in four hands. We saw that that part of the concert was well received, and we had fun doing it. That got us thinking that four hands had not been used much in jazz (and it would be easier to do concerts with one piano than with two). Then we recorded our first CD together. Now it’s been nine years that we’ve worked together.

You mentioned that Rossano Sportiello was at the Boswil stride summit. I know him, having hired him at Tri-State.

PA: We’ve known each other almost 30 years. When I met him, he was playing piano in a band with my father. I loved listening to him and asking him questions. He was always very encouraging. Later on, he became part of another band and when he got too busy, he had me replace him in that band.

ST: I first met Rossano in Boswil and he has always been very encouraging with me, too. I visited him in New York a few times and he was very kind in giving me some great advice and guidance.

PA: We are both very grateful to Rossano!

What have been the highlights of your careers?

PA: This is hard to answer, but I would say that some highlights for us have been to be able to play with great musicians. It’s important for jazz musicians to collaborate with each other.

One of the things we are both very happy about is that we get invited to play all over the world because of our duo project. What started out as something relatively unconventional has now become our main project, and we have the opportunity to present it in many countries, which is a great feeling.

In terms of day-to-day management, which of you handles the bookings and the bookkeeping?

ST: I do the US gigs and Paolo does the European ones, mostly.

PA: The scheduling is the complicated part. We have this “double life” between the US and Europe, and we don’t have a manager. We try to make the logistics as smart as possible so we don’t go back and forth just for brief periods. So we jointly decide when we should be in the US and when in Europe.

Have you considered getting a manager?

PA: This is the dream of every musician: to be able to concentrate on just the music. I have never met a musician who plays the kind of music we do who has a manager who does everything. However, we do work with some local agents who put together short tours, but that’s not the same as a manager. I would love to have someone we trust that we could delegate this to, but it’s not easy to find such a person.

Let’s talk about some day-to-day things that you have to deal with. How does all this international travel complicate your lives, or doesn’t it affect it any more than domestic travel?

PA: It is a complication to have two homes on two different continents and go back and forth every 3-4 weeks. We are used to it now though. We’ve learned how to make it work in terms of being in good shape when we arrive in either place.

ST: One important thing is to be organized. When we return to St. Louis or Milan and only have one or two days there, there are certain things that have to get done—repacking, going through the mail, doing the laundry, and practicing.

PA: Sometimes it’s easier to practice and work on new repertoire when we’re on the road if we have access to a piano.

ST: Also, we do a lot of work in airports and on planes!

PA: And we have duplicates of a lot of things, like clothing.

Which is easier, going east or west?

ST: Going west. Generally you land in the US in the late afternoon or evening and you’re tired so you go to bed. In Europe you land in the morning, and if you didn’t sleep on the red-eye, you start out tired. It’s a good idea to be disciplined about getting on the schedule of the place of arrival as soon as possible (which means eating meals at the right time, for example!).

Do you have any exercise routines?

PA: I have lots of excuses not to exercise! My answer is a blank paragraph in your article!

ST: I have certain routines that I’ve collected over the years that are portable and don’t make noise in hotels. I usually do them in the morning, then maybe 5-10 minutes during the day. Our job is very sedentary. I always have a stretch band and a squeeze ball with me.

What’s it like to manage two homes?

PA: We have someone close by to look after both places.

ST: The most challenging part is the mail. The post office doesn’t like to stop mail for more than 30 days. So my mother or our neighbors, and Paolo’s parents, check our mail and let us know if there’s something important. Also, the piano has a device that keeps the humidity constant, and it has to be watered.

Do you have a car in both places?

PA: Unfortunately, yes. In Europe, we don’t use the car very often and it’s expensive to park the car in Milan (we need a garage!) but it’s convenient to have it for touring in Italy, Switzerland, and sometimes France. We are thinking of doing away with the car in Europe in the future. However, in the Midwest, we need a car.

What projects do you have coming up?

PA: We play a lot together, but we also have individual projects. One is a double CD. I recorded a CD of Erroll Garner compositions in trio. Stephanie recorded a solo CD of some of James P. Johnson’s piano and orchestral compositions. We have performed these two repertoires live in separate sets. It worked very well. We’ll have some concerts in 2021, which is Garner’s 100th birth anniversary, and 100 years since Johnson recorded Carolina Shout. We have the double CD almost ready. The recording is done. What’s left is the liner notes and the graphics.

Who’s doing the liner notes?

ST: For my part, Scott Brown, who is the biographer of James P., and Mark Borowsky, an expert on stride piano.

PA: For mine, Will Friedwald, who has written several books on jazz and is a brilliant jazz journalist who writes for the Wall Street Journa l and other publications. Then Stephanie and I each wrote some notes of our own.

Who’s on bass and drums?

PA: Two Italian musicians I’ve enjoyed playing with in trio for many years, Roberto Piccolo on bass and Nicola Stranieri on drums.

So it was recorded in Italy?

PA: Yes, both CDs.

Any upcoming projects that you’re free to talk about?

ST: In 2019, we were invited to play a few shows with music from old movies, so we decided to record a CD of arrangements of songs by Gershwin, Rodgers, Warren, plus a tribute to Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, and others. We’re in the process of recording for this album and will probably release it in 2021.

Are there things you want to do in the future that you haven’t mentioned?

PA: We have several ideas in mind. We don’t know which will come first. We just have to do one thing at a time. There are places we’ve never been where we’d like to play. It’s always exciting to bring jazz to places where it’s not the typical fare. We also like playing for schools and universities. You’re introducing this music to people who’ve never thought about it. I think there is more recognition now for the importance of classic jazz.

We’ve covered a lot of ground. Thank you both very much for your time and thoughts.

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Bill Hoffman is a travel writer, an avid jazz fan and a supporter of musicians keeping traditional jazz alive in performance. He is the concert booker for the Tri-State Jazz Society in greater Philadelphia. Bill lives in Lancaster, PA. He is the author of Going Dutch: A Visitors Guide to the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Unique and Unusual Places in the Mid-Atlantic Region, and The New York Bicycle Touring Guide. Bill lives in Lancaster, PA.

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Stephanie Trick “has come to practically dominate the stride piano field,” notes reviewer Jack Rummel. Harlem stride piano, which developed in the 1920s and ‘30s, is an orchestral style of two handed piano playing that not only swings, but is also technically demanding and exciting to watch. In the words of the great Dick Hyman, Stephanie is “one of the nicest gifts to arrive on the jazz piano scene in recent times, and we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome her.”

A classically trained pianist, Stephanie began playing piano at the age of five. During the time between her beginning years and high school, her piano teacher exposed her to early jazz, and the syncopation and swinging rhythm piqued her interest. While in college, it became clear to Stephanie that she wanted to pursue stride and classic jazz styles professionally.

Stephanie frequently performs in duo with her husband, acclaimed pianist Paolo Alderighi, making arrangements of songs from the classic jazz, swing, and ragtime repertoires. In 2014, they played for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. She also enjoys accompanying Grammy-nominated lyricist and vocalist Lorraine Feather in a show that features the music of James P. Johnson and other stride piano composers, set to original lyrics by Feather.

Stephanie has recorded thirteen albums and one DVD and has performed in many parts of the United States as well as in Europe, Japan and Israel in a variety of venues.

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Pioneers in the use of four-hands piano in jazz, Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi have earned widespread success with their arrangements of classics from the stride piano, ragtime, and boogie woogie repertoires, as well as from the swing era and the Great American Songbook. They have performed across the United States, Europe, and Japan, winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike. Blending impeccable technique and mature musicality with humor and showmanship, they are considered the most engaging piano duo dedicated to the repertoire of classic jazz.

Stephanie (from St. Louis), a leading exponent of stride piano, and Paolo (from Milan), one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists, met at a piano festival in Switzerland in 2008. Three years later, they started to collaborate on a four-hands piano project dedicated to classic jazz, preparing arrangements of songs from the swing era, as well as drawing from the ragtime and blues repertoire. Following the release of their first album, Two for One (2012), they have been invited to perform widely in the United States, Europe, and Japan. A second CD, Sentimental Journey (2014), shows Stephanie and Paolo’s commitment to the formula of four-hands duets on one piano, rarely used in jazz. Their partnership continued with Double Trio Live 2015 and Double Trio Always (2016), recorded in the piano trio setting, but with two pianists instead of one. In 2018, they released their first album on two pianos, Broadway and More.

The husband-and-wife duo has performed in a variety of venues, including the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Jazz at Filoli, the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, the Kobe Jazz Street Festival in Japan, the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Silkeborg Riverboat Jazz Festival in Denmark, the Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival in Hungary, Teatro Dal Verme Milano, Jazzland in Vienna, Jazz Bistro in Toronto, and other jazz clubs.

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Stephanie Trick “has come to practically dominate the stride piano field,” notes reviewer Jack Rummel. Harlem stride piano, which developed in the 1920s and ‘30s, is an orchestral style of two handed piano playing that not only swings, but is also technically demanding and exciting to watch. In the words of the great Dick Hyman, Stephanie is “one of the nicest gifts to arrive on the jazz piano scene in recent times, and we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome her.” Stephanie frequently performs with her husband, acclaimed pianist Paolo Alderighi, making arrangements of songs from the Swing Era in a four-hands piano duo. In 2014, they played for the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. Stephanie was the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Kobe-Breda Jazz Friendship Award, and has performed in many parts of the United States as well as in Europe in a variety of venues.

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Join us in Ravenscroft Hall on Sunday, October 29th at 7:00pm as MSW Presents 2 Pianos, 6 Hands!   an extravaganza of stride, swing, boogie, & more!  Featuring the masterful stylings of piano duo Paolo Alderighi and Stephanie Trick , alongside Phoenix’s legendary Nicole Pesce . These three powerhouses team up to honor the exciting and dynamic styles that are the bedrock of jazz! In this rollicking one-time only event, these six hands will thrill and entertain you while simultaneously serving to raise funds for Kitchen on the Street who have been feeding Phoenix’s hungry kids with bags of hope for over 16 years.

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Stephanie Trick (St. Louis), a leading exponent of stride piano, and Paolo Alderighi (Milan), one of Italy’s foremost jazz pianists, met at a piano festival in Switzerland in 2008. Both have a background in classical piano. Stephanie graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in music, and Paolo has a piano performance degree from Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. Three years after meeting, they started collaboration on a four-hands piano project dedicated to classic jazz, preparing arrangements of songs from the Swing Era, while drawing from the ragtime, and blues repertoire.

Their first project explored the formula of four-hands duets on one piano, rarely used in jazz. They recorded CDs “Two for One” (2012), and “Sentimental Journey” (2014). “Double Trio Live” (2015), and “Double Trio Always” (2016), were recorded in the piano trio setting. “Broadway and More” (2018) was their first album on two pianos. Their most recent project is “I Love Erroll, I Love James P.” (2020), a double album, featuring the compositions of two legendary figures of jazz piano, Erroll Garner and James P. Johnson.

Their dedication to jazz and the repertoire of early American popular music is accompanied in equal measure by a desire to share its rich history. They perform in schools and universities world-wide. Their programs include lectures, concert lessons for students of all ages, and master classes. A few of the topics they cover are “History of Jazz”, “Intersections of Jazz and classical music”, “Women in Jazz”, and “Ragtime”.  Blending impeccable technique with mature musicality, this piano duo has performed across the United States, Europe, and Asia, at some of the world’s most extraordinary venues and festivals, winning the acclaim of critics and fans alike.

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Pianist, keyboardist, composer, and arranger Nicole Pesce entertains audiences with a unique blend of virtuosity, humor, and pizzazz. 

Nicole began playing piano at age seven and, by age 10, had memorized over 500 songs. At age twelve, she won First place in the Discovery National Television Competition and appeared on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. For the next couple of years, she packed in an extensive US tour and a year-long residency in Las Vegas. 

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In 2016, “We 3” was formed with vocalist Renee Patrick and violinist Suzanne Lansford, the combination showing yet another facet of Nicole’s talent. This threesome has made quite an impression on local and international audiences, selling out shows from Phoenix’s MIM to La Chope Champerret in Paris. 

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Komsomolskaya

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Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

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• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

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The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

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Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

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• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
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• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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