Hansel & Gretel
Hansel & Gretel: watch Daniele Gottardo Trio perform Hansel & Gretel live at Forma e Poesia nel Jazz, Cagliari, on September 19th, 2025.
Rather than painting the fairy-tale landscape, the piece focuses on the emotional and psychological introspection of its characters.
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Line Up
Daniele Gottardo | Guitar
Nicolò Vese | Bass
Giuseppe Risitano | Drums
Style
Polyphonic jazz-rock where the electric guitar behaves like a full ensemble voice. Contrapuntal writing, modern harmony, odd-meter architecture and wide-screen dynamics. Virtuosity always se
Project context
Daniele Gottardo Trio places the electric guitar at the center of a detailed polyphonic language. The project is not built around the usual idea of a guitar soloist with a rhythm section behind him. It works more like a compact chamber ensemble, where the guitar carries lead lines, inner voices, harmonic movement and contrapuntal figures while the bass and drums keep changing roles around the written material. That approach gives the music its particular identity: jazz-rock energy, modern fusion architecture and a strong sense of composition, with virtuosity used to clarify the form rather than simply to decorate it.
Gottardo’s writing often brings together bebop phrasing, progressive rock precision, contemporary harmony and a cinematic control of dynamics. The result is music that can be technically demanding without losing its narrative direction. Bassist Nicolo Vese expands the trio’s harmonic field through counterlines, register movement and a flexible sense of groove, while drummer Giuseppe Risitano shapes the rhythmic space with contemporary-jazz detail, sharp transitions and a strong control of density. In live performance the group can move from tight unison writing to open sections where the arrangement breathes, but the musical line remains clear.
This makes each live video useful beyond the single tune. A performance such as Hansel & Gretel shows how the trio handles guitar orchestration, rhythmic design and improvisational pressure in real time. The pieces are not only vehicles for instrumental display: they reveal how the band balances written counterpoint with stage dynamics, how electric tone can behave like an arranged ensemble voice, and how the rhythm section supports a guitar language that is melodic, harmonic and architectural at the same time.
Gottardo has been recognized internationally for a highly personal guitar voice, with attention from major players and guitar media for his technique, intonation and compositional imagination. For promoters, festivals and venues, the trio offers a contemporary instrumental set with the intensity of fusion, the discipline of jazz writing and the direct physical impact of a live electric band. The presentation page linked below gives the wider profile, line-up and booking context; this video post documents one specific performance moment inside that broader project.
From an editorial point of view, these videos also help explain why the trio belongs in a live jazz and fusion program rather than only in a guitar-specialist niche. The music has enough instrumental firepower to satisfy players, but its stronger value is the way composition, tone and interaction are organized. Each tune can be read as a compact statement of the project: a theme with clear identity, a rhythmic design that keeps the ensemble alert, and improvisational space that grows out of the written material. That balance is important for festival programmers because it gives the audience immediate energy while still offering depth for attentive listening. The same qualities make the material useful for clubs, theaters and contemporary jazz events looking for an electric project with a precise artistic profile.
This extra context is included to keep the media post useful as a standalone page as well as a video or photo entry. It gives search engines and readers enough information to understand the artist, the project, the live setting and the booking relevance without replacing the main presentation page. The video or album remains the primary content, while the editorial notes explain why the performance matters, where it sits in the artist’s wider work, and how a promoter, venue or festival can follow the internal link for the full profile before sending a professional booking request.
