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Alfabeats Nu Jazz

• Roberto MAGRIS - piano & organ
• Max “Mbassadò” MARZIO - rap vocals
• Giuliano TULL - sax
• Paolo ANDRIOLO - bass
• Paolo PRIZZON - drums

… the band originates in the mid 90’s under the name Dma Urban Jazz Funk… after a few cd’s, videos and numerous festivals, tours and liveshows throughout Europe and America… in 2004 the artistic breakthrough and the new foundation of the band, under the name of Alfabeats Nu jazz… under the sign of a new sound bridging nu jazz with hip-hop and acoustic new age… an unpredictable and amazing kind of urban music yet rooted in jazz and progressive rock, wrapped up with impressive rap lyrics, with references to Coltrane jazz, hip-hop, trip-hop, ambient… with an eye to King Crimson, Traffic, Soft Machine… and new age awareness… a new alfabeatical code to decipher the nu sound…

Stones

By Alfabeats Nu Jazz

Label: Oasis/ Mirage
Released: 2007

Alfabeats Nu Jazz: Stones

by John Kelman
March 7, 2007

For those who think that authentic, urban-informed jazz is the unique purview of North American musicians, one need only look to Stones. Emerging from the ashes of the more electronica-centric Italian group DMA, the equally all-Italian Alfabeats Nu Jazz makes music that sounds like it could be coming from the streets of any large American city--or ...