Jazz Articles about Chris Buzzelli

About Chris Buzzelli

Album Review

Gianluigi Trovesi: Vaghissimo Ritratto

Read "Vaghissimo Ritratto" reviewed by Martin Gladu

by Martin Gladu
July 7, 2007

Bergamo-born clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi's Vaghissimo Ritratto is a celebration. His sumptuous chamber trio with pianist Umberto Petrin and electronic/acoustic percussionist Fulvio Maras celebrates the vague impression time-tested melodies create when breathed new life through collective improvisation.

In his ever-perceptive liner notes, writer/producer Steve Lake remarks; “[it] is a journey through melody, one that encompasses centuries, from Josquin Des Prés (d.1521) to the present, with a focus on cellist-composer Alfredo Piatti's (d.1901) legacy. Here, Piatti's pieces, as well as six spontaneous ...

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Album Review

Chris Buzzelli: I Can Pick My Friends

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Chris Buzzelli, who picks his friends as carefully and perceptively as he picks his seven-string American Archtop, has chosen three of the country’s most accomplished Jazz guitarists, Gene Bertoncini, Randy Johnston and Jack Wilkins, to share the ride on his second album as a leader. Each of them is on board for three numbers, with Buzzelli, pianist Russell Schmidt, bassist Jeff Halsey and drummer Roger Schupp making up a quartet on the other three.

My weightiest problem ...