Jazz Articles about Carlo Actis Dato

Carlo Actis Dato & Baldo Martinez: Folklore Imaginario

by Jerry D'Souza
August 5, 2005

Communication is a bridge. Carlo Actis Dato and Baldo Martinez build one that is supple and sways tantalizingly to the impulses of their imagination. Both are visionaries who can envisage the distant and head for it. Their path is not a straight one, though, for that would be predictable and boring. They change pace and direction, one leading the other and then waiting to move in tandem before the role of leader is switched. They define movement and direction on ...

Carlo Actis Dato: The Moonwalker

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 2001

Never one to be longwinded about his ideas, Carlo Actis Dato dashes off twenty quickies on The Moonwalker. Only one of these solo tunes is longer than four minutes; the rest hover in the range where short attention spans stay satisfied. Typically clever and quick-witted, Dato isn't above making fun of himself (as he does with a vocal interchange at the conclusion of “Banda Sbandata," which ends in what can only be described as a last gasp).

Dato has led ...

Carlo Actis Dato / Kazutoki Umezu: Wake Up with the Birds

by Robert Spencer
April 1, 2000

There is so much happening on this disc that it's hard to believe that there are only two musicians. But what musicians they are! Multi-instrumentalist reed men Carlo Actis Dato, from Italy, and Kazutoki Umezu, from Japan, are a combustible combination, and their series of six duos here is a nonstop wonder of improvisational invention. Their rhythmic abilities are so dynamic as to render a rhythm section utterly superfluous.

In the liner notes there's a photo of the duo, and ...