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Michele Bonifati Emong: Three Knots

Read "Three Knots" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Primo lavoro a proprio nome per il chitarrista Michele Bonifati, alla testa del suo quartetto Emong, nel il quale mette in fila sette sue composizioni su tempi lenti e le arricchisce con due originalissime cover, coerenti con lo stile dell'album, riflessivo e dinamicamente tanto vario, quanto intenso. Emong è un particolare tipo di aquilone capace di volare anche quasi in assenza di vento (con un minimo, appunto, di tre nodi): una metafora che ben si attaglia alla musica ...

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Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Beatrice Arrigoni: Songs And Poems

Read "Songs And Poems" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Album che sconvolge le linee di demarcazione tra generi e stili, Songs and Poems vede all'opera il trio Blend 3 del contrabbassista e compositore Andrea Grossi (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del precedente CD Lubok), al quale si aggiunge la voce di Beatrice Arrigoni, negli ultimi tempi molto attiva in progetti trasversali e innovativi. Il programma prevede undici brani, tutti musicalmente composti da Grossi e con testi tratti da Emily Dickinson (i primi tre), Edward Estlin Cummings (dal sesto ...

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Lisa Marie Simmons: Notespeak 12

Read "Notespeak 12" reviewed by Chris May


Poetry & Jazz has a checkered history. When combined, the two art forms are not so much a marriage made in heaven as an obstacle course. The biggest danger is that one of them is verbal and the other is non-verbal and at its best transcends words. The second danger is that the better the poetry and/or the jazz in question, the more intrusive may be their competing demands for the listener's attention. Notespeak 12 is top-end poetry ...

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Andrea Grossi Blend 3 + Beatrice Arrigoni: Songs And Poems

Read "Songs And Poems" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Sometimes a great athlete's performance is described as “poetry in motion." If we apply that phrase to this Andrea Grossi Blend 3 release, we might say it is poetry in emotion. The bassist composed a musical score to accompany three poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), another four from E.E. Cummings (1894-1962), and one by himself. The remaining three tracks are wordless poetry. Grossi's Blend 3 includes alto saxophonist Manuel Caliumi and electric guitarist Michele Bonifati. The trio has ...

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Offset 5: Deflections

Read "Deflections" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Curiously, Italy's Offset 5 began as a trio and took more than a decade to become a quintet. Offset 5 began in 2010, when guitarist Marcello Abate formed an alliance with drummer Federico Negri and contrabassist Davide Paulis in a trio devoted to tradition and standards. Offset 5 grew into a quartet with the 2016 addition of alto saxophonist Manuel Caliumi, which simultaneously occasioned the group's move away from standards and into their own, original compositions. (Caliumi and Negri respectively ...

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Michele Grossi Blend 3: Lubok

Read "Lubok" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Formazione molto interessante, capitanata dal contrabbassista Andrea Grossi ma di fatto paritetica, Blend 3 è un trio completato dal sax contralto di Manuel Caliumi e dalla chitarra di Michele Bonifati, che dà vita a una musica in equilibrio tra scrittura e improvvisazione a partire da spunti compositivi estremamente sofisticati. Il lavoro si avvia con una bella improvvisazione e prosegue con un brano di gusto contemporaneo costruito su semplici intervalli. “Iwato"--dedicata a Giancarlo “Nino" Locatelli--è costruita sull'omonimo modo della ...


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