Jazz Articles about Andre Groen

About Andre Groen

Album Review

From Fellini to Verde to Garbo, with detours into the world of food and sounds of the subway, I Compani is one of Europe's most original and versatile ensembles. Despite a decades-long legacy in Western Europe, the ensemble is not well known in the U.S. The Dutch group, under the direction of saxophonist/composer and founder, Bo van de Graaf are masters of ingenious arrangement and vivid expressiveness that all but jumps out from the speakers. On Party @ Tivolux, van ...

Album Review

Cycle: Jin-Brebl-Concert

Read "Jin-Brebl-Concert" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 28, 2021

Parafrasando, titolo e copertina, un celeberrimo doppio album del '71 del quartetto Circle di Anthony Braxton, Chick Corea, Dave Holland e Barry Altschul, il quintetto protagonista di questo lavoro batte in realtà strade abbastanza autonome, incasellando in sei brani originali (di cui due impro collettive) Vignette di Gary Peacock e, icona evidentemente inevitabile, quel Nefertiti che apriva il monumentale album di mezzo secolo fa (in questo caso l'incisione risale al 30 settembre 2020). Le analogie fra i ...