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Instrument: Saxophone, baritone
Alberto Pinton: Nascent
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Nascent è una interessante testimonianza delle qualità del multi-strumentista Alberto Pinton - originario di Porto Marghera ma da anni residente in Svezia - sia come abile interprete di vari strumenti a fiato sia come ispirato ed eclettico compositore. Nei dieci brani dell'album troviamo varietà di situazioni, atmosfere e mood, non intese come semplice passerella di stili o di contaminazioni alla moda quanto piuttosto come riuscita sintesi del pensiero fertile, curioso, aperto e riflessivo del leader. Così che l'uso dei diversi ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
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 ...
Continue ReadingPinton - Kullhammar - Zetterberg - Nordeson: Chant
by AAJ Italy Staff
A Coimbra, patria del fado “accademico," il festival jazz offre sempre una programmazione molto affine all'estetica dell'ottima etichetta portoghese Clean Feed, e in piena sintonia con il suo patron Pedro Costa. Non è la prima volta che formazioni di area svedese pubblicano per Clean Feed registrazioni live fatte al festival: accadde anche per il tenor sassofonista Fredrik Nordstrom e si ripete ora con Chant. L'etichetta è attenta ad avanguardia e free jazz, ma come per Nordstrom così ora dà spazio ...
Continue ReadingAlberto Pinton / Jonas Kulhammar / Torbjorn Zetterberg / Kjell Nordeson: Chant
by Stuart Broomer
This beefy quartet was drawn from existing Stockholm bands by baritone saxophonist/clarinetist Alberto Pinton at the suggestion of Clean Feed producer Pedro Costa. As bassist Torbjörn Zetterberg describes it in his liner note, it's half of his octet, half of tenor and baritone saxophonist Jonas Kullhammar's quartet, half of Kullhammar and drummer Kjell Nordeson's quartet Nacka Forum and more than half of Pinton's quintet. The group that emerges from three days of live recording in Coimbra, Portugal is a free-bop ...
Continue ReadingNils Lindberg / Margareta Bengtson: As We Are
by Chris Mosey
With climate change and recent weather, the Shakespearean sonnet “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" would seem to have become a trifle outmoded. Still, where there's a Will there's a way and Nils Lindberg has set the piece to music.
Lindberg is a true Renaissance man. From his home in Gagnef, a small village deep in the forests of the Swedish province of Dalecarlia, he emerges every now and again to dazzle us ordinary mortals with his many ... Continue ReadingAlberto Pinton Quintet: Vita Pratica
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non so perché ma l’ascolto dell’iniziale “La vacanza italiana“ mi ha scaraventato dalle parti di Extrapolation di John McLaughlin, nonostante tempi storici e strumentazione assai diverse. Forse perché nel sax baritono di Alberto Pinton ho trovato più di un assonanza con quello di John Surman, forse perché il groove del brano, così accattivante ma altrettanto imprevedibile e irregolare nello sviluppo, mi ha rimandato al clima complessivo di quella storica incisione. E se poi lo sviluppo di Vita Pratica, ultima fatica ...
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