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Instrument: Bass, acoustic
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by Doug Hall
Lello Molinari Quartet Regatta BarCambridge, Massachusetts May 1, 2018 During the creation of Lello Molinari's current release Lello's Italian Job, Vol. 2(March, 2018) the renown jazz bassist was intentionally stepping back to his roots of southern Italy, specifically Naples--which he left in 1986 to study at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston. In Lello's own words he empathized, If you think about Italian music, it's like saying 'Jazz'--there's so much and it's so ...
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by Jerome Wilson
Italian-born bassist Lello Molinari emigrated to the US in the 1980s and is an established part of the Boston jazz scene and a member of the faculty at the Berklee School of Music. In 2016 he released an album reworking the various musics of his homeland into modern jazz and he continues that on this CD. Molinari draws from Italian folk melodies and pop songs as well as opera here, putting them in new settings ranging from lush ...
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by Jim Olin
Stellar bassist Lello Molinari has put together an ensemble of captivating instrumentals on his album Lello's Italian Job. Molinari exceeds expectations on a record with pleasant surprises; however, this collection is more than just ear candy. It's an imagination springboard that will take listeners to oases they've never been before.Mysterious and intriguing, Speranze Perdute" can very well fit onto the soundtrack of Sherlock. Listening to this track is like participating in a cat and mouse chase set in ...
read more3 Play +: American Waltz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un contrabbassista (Lello Molinari) e un batterista (Marcello Pellitteri) italiani che insegnano alla prestigiosa Berklee College of Music, un pianista (Josh Rosen) che ama flirtare con la musica etiopica ed indonesiana, ed ecco formato il 3 Play. Un trombettista (Phil Granadier) che ha frequentato tanto Anthony Braxton che Dionne Warwick, Freddy Hubbard e James Brown, ed ecco il + presente nel nome del gruppo. Un'etichetta, la Ziggle Zaggle, che debutta proprio con questo American Waltz e lo fa in maniera ...
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