Results for "Alfa Music"

Marco Postacchini Big Band: One Finger Snap

by Angelo Leonardi
December 22, 2023

Radicata nella tradizione del mainstream orchestrale (quella di Count Basie, Gerald Wilson e Thad Jones in particolare) la big band di Marco Postacchini è un'ottima “Swing Machine" che presenta in questo disco un variegato repertorio che spazia da composizioni di Herbie Hancock ("One Finger Snap") a Steve Swallow ("Eiderdown"), si tinge di colori latini (Antonio Carlos ...

Christianne Neves

Christianne Neves is a Brazilian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and musical director. A passionate creative artist, Christianne has released four original instrumental music albums: Refúgio (2000), Duas Madrugadas (2005), Eyin Okan (2011) and Noite e Dias (2022). Her sophisticated compositions feature complex, unexpected harmonies and a rich texture of rhythms ranging from Latin American to African. She has also released two albums of arrangements: Andata e Ritorno (2014), with Italian and Brazilian artists and artistic production by Max de Tomassi of Italian network RAI, and Retalhos do Brasil (2017), a piano and voice collaboration with 13 Brazilian singers. 

One Finger Snap

Label: Alfa Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: One Finger Snap; Old Box; Insensatez; Aqui Oh!; Recordame; Nature Boy; Chega De Saudade; Eiderdown; Smooth Funk.

Francesco Cataldo: Giulia

by Neri Pollastri
January 20, 2021

Sa scegliersi i suoi partner il chitarrista e compositore siciliano Francesco Cataldo: dopo che nel suo primo disco Spaces (Alfa Music 2012) si era fatto affiancare dal conterraneo Salvatore Bonafede e dagli americani Erik Friedlander, David Binney, Scott Colley e Clarence Penn, e dopo aver suonato quel repertorio in un gruppo in cui compariva Kenny Werner, ...

Giulia

By Francesco Cataldo

Label: Alfa Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: I Tuoi Colori (Prologo); Giulia; Levante; Waltz for Two; Two Ways; Joy and Pain; Two Colours; So Small so Big; Two Ways (Reprise); Circles (Epilogo).

Francesco Cataldo: Giulia

by Dan Bilawsky
July 11, 2020

There's pure, undiluted beauty emanating from the jewel of an introduction on Francesco Cataldo's Giulia. The Italian guitarist's patient and pristine lines set the scene for “I Tuoi Colori (Prologo)," and his equally graceful band mates—pianist Marc Copland, bassist Pietro Leveratto and drummer Adam Nussbaum—join him, slowly drifting out toward cool blue waters like those spied ...

Pericopes+1 - These Human Beings

By Alessandro Sgobbio

Label: Alfa Music
Released: 2015