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Stefano Bollani (BMG: L' Orchestra Del Titanic
by Ernesto De Pascale
L' Orchestra Del Titanic is the first solo album by 25-year-old Florentine pianist Stefano Bollani, Best New Talent 1999" according to Musica Jazz, Italy's leading jazz's magazine.For years, Bollani, who has lately added his identifiable touch to many Italian jazz records, has expressed in interviews his search for a unique project to fit to ...
Balan: More
by Ernesto De Pascale
During the Swinging Sixties, the most respected Italian composers and performers found work recording the prettier reflections of what was then the in sound. Despite extensive jazz backgrounds and advanced musical educations, these musicians were reduced to simply saying what people wanted to hear. It was in films that such Italian maestros as Ennio ...
Stefano Maltese (Musica Jazz: Open Letter to Mingus
by Ernesto De Pascale
Two decades following the death of Charles Mingus, his musical legacy is more alive than ever. Stefano Maltese's Open Music Orchestra adds its reflections with Open Letter To Mingus, a personal tribute to one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. It is an exceptional appreciation and notable for the enduring strength of such Mingus ...
Marcotulli/Pia De Vito/Tuncboyaci: Triboh
by Ernesto De Pascale
Triboh is a complex ethno-jazz project which shows a great sensibility from each of the three musicians involved. In this record, the harmonic jazz side is fully covered by Rita Marcotulli, the extraordinary 36-year-old pianist from Rome. The dazzling rhythms are courtesy of percussionist Arto Tuncboyaci (better known as part of Marc Johnson's Night Ark). That ...
Enrico Rava: Ragazzi Selvaggi
by Ernesto De Pascale
Veteran trumpeter Enrico Rava dedicates Ragazzi Selvaggi to the mythic Beat Generation, the literature it inspired, the lifestyle it introduced and the movement it became. The sounds that Rava uses to evoke the Beat life are actually inspired by Bernard Hermann's orchestral work (which dominated the most popular films during the Beat era), as opposed to ...
Francesco Maccianti Quartet: Oasi
by Ernesto De Pascale
Francesco Maccianti’s new solo effort is an intelligent and uplifting album, rooted in the best of the classic post-bop tradition. Occasionally, the pianist pays his dues to Keith Jarrett’s Atlantic years and, often, to McCoy Tyner’s mid-1960 s dates. But Oasi bears all the classy signs of a hard-working quartet exploring the moody grooves and swing ...
Danilo Rea/Enzo Pietropaoli/Fabrizio Sferra: Tales of Doctor Three
by Ernesto De Pascale
Picture this. Two of Italy's most distinguished jazz musicians are former high-school classmates. They band together with a third and record an album of songs they all grew up with. Not just your standard jazz fare, either. This is the stuff they heard on the radio.But Tales of Doctor Three delivers the goods - ...
Giovanni Tomaso: Third Step
by Ernesto De Pascale
Third Step , the latest release by composer and esteemed acoustic bassist Giovanni Tommaso, celebrates the bassist's 40th anniversary in the jazz world. A wide range of rhythmic patterns - from Waltz, Tarantella and Calypso to Minuetto, Tango and Twist - form Third Step ’s main inspiration. Tommaso and his partners, the best of Italian Jazz ...