Jazz Articles about Betty Accorsi

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Album Review

Betty Accorsi Quartet: Growing Roots

Read "Growing Roots" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 30, 2022

The second album from Italian born, British based soprano saxophonist Betty (Elisabetta) Accorsi's quartet confirms what was already apparent on her debut, The Cutty Sark Suite (Betty Accorsi Music, 2020). That is, here is a young musician and composer of outstanding talent who is destined for the big stage. There is nothing radical about Accorsi's music, unlike that of many other musicians of her generation who have passed through London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire and now dominate the ...

Album Review

Betty Accorsi Quartet: The Cutty Sark Suite

Read "The Cutty Sark Suite" reviewed by Thomas Fletcher

by Thomas Fletcher
August 16, 2021

Saxophonist and talented composer Betty Accorsi has released her debut album, The Cutty Sark Suite, inspired by the ship's journey travelling from China to London. The four tracks, averaging seven-and-a-half-minutes, were all recorded at Goldsmiths Music Studios, in affiliation with the university which Accorsi attended, studying for a master's degree in music. Prior to this, the Italian-born musician enrolled at the Conservatoire G. Verdi in Milan where she primarily focused on performing classical repertoire. She then moved to England to ...