A unanimously acclaimed artist of highly refined sensibility, Ada Montellanico’s broad vocal repertory ranges from American jazz standards — which she interprets with rare originality and delicacy — to the expressive lyrics/music relationships explored on her first CD entitled The Encounter, recorded in 1993 with Jimmy Cobb, Walter Booker and Massimo Faraò; and on her very successful 1996 L’Altro Tenco, dedicated to the compositions of Italian singer/song-writer Luigi Tenco, and a recording that marked the opening of an interpretative universe that was soon to prove one of the most inspired of the contemporary Italian jazz scene.\r