Jazz Articles about Alessandro D'Episcopo

Alessandro D'Episcopo Trio: Meraviglioso

by Jerry D'Souza
November 4, 2007

Pianist Alessandro D'Episcopo brings in the balmy air of the Mediterranean, a heady bit of Neapolitan melody, Arabian music and four tunes from one of his favorite composers, Thelonious Monk. They all sit well together and magenetise the listener on the aptly titled Meraviglioso, which translates to “wonderful.

D'Episcopo's music is inventive and his playing adventurous, with ideas that bristle and throb. “The Run is a percussive delight as he sets a repetitive phrase that has the ...