Jazz Articles about Quadricromia

Quadricromia: Quadricromia

by Chris May
February 26, 2006

An astonishingly compelling debut album from four Italian musicians in their early to mid-twenties, one of them just out of the conservatoire, three of them still studying, Quadricromia is full of the daring and enthusiasm of youth, but it has a depth and substance way beyond its years.

Such is the commonality of conservatoire training among emerging musicians today that many of them don't get to the coal face until their mid-twenties or later. We tend to forget it wasn't ...