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Julian Costello Quartet: Connections: without borders
by Bruce Lindsay
Three years after its debut release, Transitions (33 Jazz), the Julian Costello Quartet returns with Connections: without borders. The debut was recorded in Italy, but for the follow-up the London-based band decamped to Norway, to record nine of leader and saxophonist Costello's compositions at Blueberry Fields studios in Heggedal. The tunes are indeed connected, reflecting how people are connected to places through music and how music transcends borders, as Costello notes on the album sleeve. There's one change ...
read moreMaciek Pysz, Daniele Di Bonaventura: Coming Home
by Alberto Bazzurro
Undici brani, tutti di pugno dei due firmatari del disco, compongono questo elegante dialogo fra il bandoneon (nonché il pianoforte, anche con una certa generosità) del marchigiano Daniele Di Bonaventura e la chitarra (per lo più acustica) del polacco Maciek Pysz (in realtà ormai da una buona quindicina d'anni londinese d'adozione). Si parte con “Lights," di Pysz, ideale biglietto da visita per l'intero CD, che prosegue, limitandoci agli episodi più significativi, con “Nadir" (Di Bonaventura), in cui ...
read moreMaciek Pysz Trio: Insight
by Bruce Lindsay
Insight, the debut recording from guitarist Maciek Pysz and his trio, is a jazz album from Britain. Well, it's released on a British label, funded with the support of Arts Council England and Jazz Services, and performed by British-based musicians. However, Pysz is from Poland, bassist Yuri Goloubev is Russian, and drummer Asaf Sirkis (who plays much of the time on a collection of hand drums) hails from Israel; the album was recorded at the famed Artesuono studios in Italy ...
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