Jazz Articles about Antonio Gentile

Antonio Gentile/Franco Baggiani: World Two

by John Kelman
March 24, 2004

Percussion-centric records are not new, but they are somewhat rare. Nana Vasconcelos has released a number of fine recordings where his percussion takes a front-and-centre position. But the difference between Vasconcelos and percussionist Antonio Gentile, who teams up with trumpeter Franco Baggiani on World Two , is that Vasconcelos coaxes an incredibly rich variety of sounds out of a very limited number of instruments; Gentile, on the other hand, sounds so similar on the thirty-five percussion instruments that he employs ...