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by Angelo Leonardi
Fa la spola tra New York e Bogotà -la sua città natale Juan Andrés Ospina, leader di questo bel progetto orchestrale che raccoglie 26 musicisti da dieci diversi Paesi. Ospina non è solo bandleader e orchestratore ma pianista, produttore e autore di musiche da film. Il suo percorso formativo e professionale s'è svolto tra Bogotà e Barcellona dove ha portato avanti studi di musica classica e jazz (un diploma di jazz arranger al Teller de Músics della città ...
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by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
With his debut big band release, Tramontana, Colombian composer/bandleader Juan Andres Ospina has created a truly international project, featuring musicians from ten countries as disparate as Greece, Switzerland, Israel, and Columbia. Tramontana is the gale-force wind that lashes Spain's Costa Brava, clearing the skies for sweeping views of the Catalan mountains and sea. This wind inspired music that evokes a similar power, grandeur, and beauty, while offering a satisfying melodic ride from start to finish. Listeners who studiously ...
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by Lewis J Whittington
The jazz diary of pianist/composer Juan Andrés Ospina's BBB is an elegant, untethered tour of primary musical colors, with inviting light, angles and shadows. Todavía No" states the theme with percussionist Austin McMahon's airy drums swinging, with tango punctuations. Saxophonists Ben Roseth and actually Matan Chapnizka dominate with flights of jazz fancy, though it is Ospina's piano that keeps the pulse more grounded. The pianist composed all but one of the tracks, but he is very much part of the ...
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