Jazz Articles about Alfredo Triff

About Alfredo Triff

Album Review

Alfredo Triff: Parodies: Jazz Music for Violin and Octet

Read "Parodies: Jazz Music for Violin and Octet" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 21, 2016

American-Cuban violinist Alfredo Triff is known for his long-standing work with composer-arranger-songwriter-producer Kip Hanrahan that began in 1985--five years after Triff arrived to New york from Havana, Cuba--and continues to this day. But Triff's work encompasses more than Hanrahan music. He experimented with recording solo electric violin, released solo albums that presented his diverse musical interests in changing formats, collaborated with Brazilian singer-poet Arnaldo Antunes and toured with another of Hanrahan frequent collaborators, Jack Bruce, and participated on Bruce's album ...

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Album Review

Alfredo Triff: 21 Broken Melodies At Once

by Jim Josselyn
November 1, 2001

As the title and daring cover artwork suggest, “21 Broken Melodies At Once" is different. This is not a collection of songs with melodies and improvised solos, but rather a sort of “symphony" or better, a collage, of ideas, sounds and assorted noises. A short orchestral violin solo gives way to radio sounds, distorted electric violins, a conga/violin duet and on “Sitera" a simply lovely Spanish song sung wonderfully by Xiomara Lougart. “Ambiente pa ti" introduces a more traditional clave ...