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Alberto Pinton: Nascent

Read "Nascent" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 30, 2013

Italian multi-woodwind specialist Alberto Pinton earns his living in Stockholm. Spanning the past several years, and via the level of band support he receives, it reaffirms that there's no shortage of world-class talent in Sweden. Pinton's muscular and hard-driving presence on clarinet and baritone saxophone signals a program that largely smokes, other than when he tempers the modalities with raspy flute work, evidenced on the buoyant jazz-waltz vamp, “Clean Slate." The leader bridges boisterous levels of ultra- modern jazz with ...

Album Review

Alberto Pinton: Nascent

Read "Nascent" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 3, 2013

Italian-born, Stockholm-based sax and woodwinds player Alberto Pinton new quartet Nascent = 14719 brings the best of him. Pinton is an experienced and varied musician who honed his art in dozens of recordings as a leader, co-leader-- in his own former quartet and quintet, Dog Out quartet with saxophonist Fredrik Nordström and another collaborative quartet with saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar or as a sideman; a clever composer who is well versed with the rich jazz legacy but does not feel bound ...