Jazz Articles

Francesco Guaiana: Clouds in Motion

by Phil DiPietro
December 25, 2006

There's not much information out there about one of 2002's finest recordings, NoJaz, by a talented young group led by our man-of-the-moment, guitarist Francesco Guaiana, hailing from Palermo, Sicily. A diamond in the vast mine of indie jazz, its virtuosically painted inside/outside-isms are tethered to an ECM folk aesthetic. Four years later, we have a solo guitar recording from Guaiana, now 33, who proves a talent to be reckoned with in this idiom as well.

Guaiana touches on a litany ...