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Dancin' Roots

Label: Felmay
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Maestro dei Sogni (intro) 2. Gramelot Dance 3. Canzone per Miranda 4. La Tur dal Sucar 5. Chorale n.2 6. Come Dici 7. Irony 8. Blanc 9. Nedah 10. Maestro dei Sogni

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Dancin' Roots

Read "Dancin' Roots" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Italian acoustic guitarist Simone Guiducci often employs well-known American jazz musicians for his conspicuously ambitious projects. With this effort, he benefits from clarinetist Don Byron's expertise, along with rising star trumpeter Ralph Alessi and other top-notch instrumentalists. Guiducci's trademark fusion of Mediterranean themes with complex harmonic sojourns once again offers more than just a few rewarding ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Dancin' Roots

Read "Dancin' Roots" reviewed by John Kelman


With consistently compelling releases from labels like EGEA and CAM Jazz, the vibrancy of the Italian jazz scene is becoming more and more recognized by a larger international audience. Increasingly self-evident is that the Italian jazz community encompasses both the broader improvising tradition of American jazz and the intrinsic ethnicity of its own rich musical history. ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Dancin' Roots

Read "Dancin' Roots" reviewed by Paul Olson


Musicians have been combining various musical genres with jazz for decades and the results are often pretty messy. Jazz doesn't mix as well with its musical brethren as one might hope: often its improvisational side is diluted and all that survives the graft is an empty virtuosity. That's why the achievement of Italian acoustic guitarist Simone ...


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