Jazz Articles about Marco Vezzoso

About Marco Vezzoso

Instrument: Trumpet

Album Review

Travel compiles a musical travelogue through eight cities from Istanbul (Turkey) through Oslo (Norway) to Tokyo (Japan), rendered in the acoustic quartet sound of trumpet, piano, bass, and percussion. Composers Marco Vezzoso and Alessandro Collina don't paint strikingly different portraits but reflect each geography through the same sort of quietly intense music, and tuck an almost unbelievable amount of beautiful sound into 41 minutes. Lead and solo voices Vezzoso (trumpet and flugelhorn) and Collina (piano) receive great assistance ...

Album Review

Italian Spirit: In Japan

Read "In Japan" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
September 7, 2021

Italian Spirit began in 2014 as a duo featuring pianist Alessandro Collina and trumpeter Marco Vezzoso, instructor at the National Conservatory of Nice. Their name refers to their repertoire: classic, traditional and contemporary songs designed to revive and inspire emotions in Italians far from home. Collina and Vezzoso have performed extensively from west to east; Live in Osaka was recorded and released by a Japanese label from their first tour of Japan in 2015, and in 2019 they represented Italy ...