Jazz Articles about Andrea Centazzo

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ROVA Saxophone Quartet and Andrea Centazzo: The Bay

by Jerry D'Souza
August 24, 2007

Ictus Records was co-founded by percussionist Andrea Centazzo with Carla Lugli in the late 1970s. The focus was on improvised music, contemporary styling and avant-garde jazz. Centazzo and Lugli ran the label until 1984 when the financial burden became too heavy to carry on. During that time, Ictus had a strong catalog with recordings of Centazzo, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Lol Coxhill, Gianluigi Trovesi and ROVA. Saxophone Quartet among others.

Ictus was resurrected after a hiatus of thirty years. Several ...

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Andrea Centazzo: The Heart of Wax

by John Barron
August 22, 2007

In 2001, Italian composer/percussionist Andrea Centazzo assembled a first-rate ensemble of strings, winds, keyboards and percussion to record his adventurous ballet suite, The Heart of Wax. The music, commissioned by the arts council of the municipality of Cento, was written for a forgotten libretto by Italian artist Alberto Martini (1876-1954). Newly edited and re-mastered for Centazzo's own Ictus Records, The Heart of Wax casts the Italian free-jazz pioneer in the role of composer/conductor, demonstrating superlative mastery of orchestration. ...

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Andrea Centazzo, Perry Robinson, Nobu Stowe: The Soul in the Mist

by John Barron
August 17, 2007

On The Soul in the Mist, legendary composer/percussionist Andrea Centazzo leads a dazzling set of introspective, communal improvisation with the help of renowned clarinetist Perry Robinson and pianist Nobu Stowe. The musical explorations on this live recording, taken from two east coast concerts in November of 2006, have a meditative, trance-like quality, spacious and hauntingly patient.

For the most part, Centazzo defines the mood of each selection with definitive percussion introductions. However, the minimalist nature to his compositions allows each ...

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Andrea Centazzo: The Soul in the Mist

by Budd Kopman
August 16, 2007

The music from Soul in the Mist was taken from two live performances towards the end of 2006. Having heard most of this music performed at the Rubin Museum as part of its Harlem in the Himalayas program, I can say that the quality of the earlier performances and their recording was very high indeed.

Andrea Centazzo is an outstanding percussionist, both naturally and electronically processed. Thirty years ago, his independent label, Ictus Records, was in the forefront of the ...

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Andrea Centazzo / Henry Kaiser: Infinity Squared

by Fred Bouchard
April 3, 2007

Nigh three decades are flown since these two weird brothers met and they recreate some of their own internal thunder, lightning and hailstorms here. Italian percussionist straordinario Andrea Centazzo has deepened his fascination with tintinnabulatory trinkets, sonic booms and visual-media outings (lost here), while guitar bad boy and madcap collaborator Henry Kaiser has honed yet broadened his cultural horizons (a celebrated series with Malagasy musicians) and unbridled explorations of plectra. These guys set each other off like sodium and chloride, ...

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Andrea Centazzo and the Ictus Renaissance Project at the Rubin Museum

by Budd Kopman
March 24, 2007

Andrea Centazzo and the Ictus Renaissance ProjectRubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th StreetNew York City, New YorkFriday, March 9, 2007. 7:00 PM The Rubin Museum of Art first opened its doors on October 4, 2004, dedicating itself to the art and culture of the Himalayas and the surrounding regions. This spring, a program called Harlem in the Himalayas presents jazz at the museum. Percussionist Andrea Centazzo, whose Ictus Records label ...

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Centazzo - Coxhill - Koglmann - Schiaffini: Situations

by Glenn Astarita
December 1, 2000

Situations represents material culled from the archives of percussionist Andrea Centazzo's old 'ICTUS' label. The previously unreleased tracks, titled 'Situations: 'I-VII', were recorded in 1982, featuring trumpeter/flugelhornist Franz Koglmann, soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill and Centazzo as this multinational aggregation of modern jazz/improvising superstars pursue a subdued search and destroy musician via supple dialogue and animated call and response digressions. With these pieces, the instrumentalists delve into softly stated themes of an often-climactic nature. Soprano saxophonist Lol Coxhill's spiraling, extended notes ...