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Giovanni Tommaso Quintet

Giovanni Tommaso Quintet: Secondo Tempo

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 19, 2002

Giovanni Tommaso won the 2001-2002 Jazziz Critic's Picks with La Dolce Vita and such a recognition led to the “Second Part," as the title means, under review here. Even so, this is no haphazardly produced or executed sequel. Secondo Tempo is Italian cinematic soundtracks, of varying fame, reinterpreted within the jazz tenor range ...

To Chet

By Giovanni Tommaso Quintet

Label: Red Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Piccioni Viaggiatori (To Chet); Novembre; O

Giovanni Tommaso Quintet: To Chet

by C. Michael Bailey
February 1, 2000

Chet, We Hardly Knew Ye. Ubiquitous on RED recordings, bassist Giovanni Tommaso conducts a heart-felt, if not a little weird tribute to jazz casualty, Chet Baker. Tommaso is joined by two trumpeters/flugelhornists Flavio Boltro and Paolo Fresu. They provide an eerie awakening motif on the opening “Piccioni Viaggiatori (To Chet)”. After stretching a few minutes, the ...