Results for "Francesco Cusa"

Francesco Cusa

FCTrio (Francesco Cusa Trio): Minimal Works

by Neri Pollastri
February 19, 2024

Il trio di Francesco Cusa, che avevamo già recensito in un lavoro progettato dal pianista Tonino Miano che ospitava il trombettista americano Brian Groder, Human Pieces, presenta adesso questo suggestivo album che raccoglie otto brani firmati dal batterista: la metà, rispondendo al titolo programmatico del disco, ruotano attorno a temi minimali, che vengono ripresi, mutati, sviluppati, ...

Per Texas Johansson, Anke Helfrich & Machine Mass Sextet

by Maurice Hogue
January 30, 2024

Last show of another year of great music, and I usually try to do something special or different, but I was kind of tapped out for ideas until I happened to come across We'll Rise, a new recording by German pianist and singer, Anke Helfrich. I loved the message she was trying to convey through her ...

Lina Allemano, Thomas Agergaard & Bacchanalia Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
January 16, 2024

Canadian trumpeter Lina Allemano says she started writing canons as a fun and challenging compositional game of sorts; eventually the fun and games morphed into her latest album, Canons , where she's accompanied by a varying cast of characters. On the track chosen for this show Lina is joined by trombonist Matthias Müller. Danish saxophonist Thomas ...

Minimal Works

By Tonino Miano

Label: Improvvisatore Involontario
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sweet Lucrezio; First Meditation; The Only One White Smarties; Second Meditation; Luminal; Third Meditation; A Little Mouse; Fourth Meditation.

Francois Houle, Sei Miguel & other new Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
May 17, 2023

There's plenty of great new music to get excited about in this edition of OMJ. Clean Feed Records, that wonderful label in Portugal, just dropped a whole bunch of new albums and I'm happy to dig into these--the Italian band {m: Roots Magic}} that digs into blues and avant-garde, the unique trumpeter Sei Miguel , Canadian ...

Cusa - Groder - Grosso - Miano: Human Pieces

by Neri Pollastri
May 9, 2023

Rientrato nella natia Sicilia dopo una lunga permanenza negli Stati Uniti, il pianista, compositore e didatta Tonino Miano non ha perso tempo e ha prontamente messo in piedi una formazione con due corregionali-- Riccardo Grosso al contrabbasso e Francesco Cusa alla batteria--e un suo frequente collaboratore dell'area newyorchese--il trombettista Brian Groder. L'album si articola ...

Human Pieces

Label: Leo Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Heart Kit; Skittles Heavy; Neon Eyes; Hand in a Can; Human Pieces; Twenty Fingers in a Pond; Nails in the Sky.

A dialogo con Mirio Cosottini

by Neri Pollastri
September 19, 2022

Musicista, compositore, improvvisatore, insegnante, ma anche filosofo e disegnatore: una personalità ricca quella di Mirio Cosottini, che recentemente abbiamo incontrato in un paio di lavori particolarmente originali e che qualche anno fa ha fatto uscire un interessantissimo libro sulla didattica dell'improvvisazione musicale. Di questi e altri temi abbiamo parlato con lui per i lettori di All ...

Yaroslav Likhachev, Fade In Trio, Joao Carreiro & Baker/Harris/Lopez

by Maurice Hogue
August 22, 2022

This episode has an edge to much of the music with tastes of new recordings from German saxophonist Yaroslav Likhachev and his quartet, Manila-based saxophonist Rick Countryman teamed up with Swiss drummer Christian Bucher, the Chicago trio of Jim Baker, Bill Harris & Brandon Lopez, Alien Radio from Canada, the Italian trio Fade In, Portuguese guitarist ...