Jazz Articles about Andre Mehmari

About Andre Mehmari

Album Review

The music that pianist Andre Mehmari presents on Afetuoso is a true amalgamation of jazz, classical and Brazilian forms. Mehmari, who's worked with everybody from trumpeter Randy Brecker to Brazilian icon Hermeto Pascoal, is a poised and thoughtful player who covers the whole emotional spectrum on this trio date. He's wrapped up in a world of wonder, joy, passion and peacefulness, and he vacillates between these moods, marrying diverse emotions with surprising ease. “Suite Clube Da Esquina," ...

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Album Review

Andre Mehmari / Gabriele Mirabassi: Miramari

Read "Miramari" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 29, 2009

Miramari is a musical whirlpool that bubbles with rhythmic ripples and swirls in a manner conveying a gentle disturbance that gathers in intensity at times. It is in this mysteriously liquid realm that Brazilian pianist Andre Mehmari and Italian clarinetist Gabriel Mirabassi concoct their sublime music, mixing disparate metaphors with idiomatic phrases and images. Somehow, by a supreme plan unbeknownst to any but these two alchemists, a magical moving sonic picture forms. It beckons the listener to also watch as ...