Jazz Articles about Dan Moretti

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Dan Moretti and Brazilia: Live at the Pump House/Celebrating Wayne Shorter

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2025

While everyone has ideas, some ideas are admittedly better than others. Saxophonist Dan Moretti and Brazilia's notion to salute the music of Wayne Shorter by reshaping and Latinizing eight of the legendary saxophonist's splendid compositions was a good idea. Doubters need only survey the finished product, recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience in December 2024 at The Pump House Music Works in Wakefield, Rhode Island. Shorter's unique and engaging melodies, several of which are now enshrined ...

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Dan Moretti & Piccola Orchestra La Viola: The Journey

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 25, 2012

La Piccola Orchestra La Viola è un ensemble “povero," perlopiù composto da organetti che coronano la voce di Antonella Costanzo, sostenuti da un basso elettrico e delle percussioni. Il tutto diretto da Alessandro Parente, per mettere in scena solitamente una elegante world music che pesca nella tradizione per guardare al presente e al futuro. In questo lavoro il gruppo si incontra con il sassofonista statunitense Dan Moretti, collaboratore già di Dave Liebman e Mike Stern, autore anche di gran parte ...

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Dan Moretti: Tres Muse

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 11, 2009

Medeski, Martin & Wood con il sax al posto delle tastiere. Se volessimo far il gioco delle somiglianze, questa potrebbe servire a dare un idea del clima che si respira in Tres Muse. Batteria ipercinetica, basso elettrico implacabile e funkeggiante, sax tenore che sospinto dalla ritmica così stimolante può permettersi di scorazzare in lungo e in largo nei territori più disparati. Perché in Tres Muse troviamo sonorità fusion anni settanta, ballads dai sapori popolari, la contagiosa cantabilità dei ritmi caraibici, ...

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Dan Moretti: Tres Muse

by Glenn Astarita
September 9, 2009

Northeast area saxophonist and Berklee School of Music educator Dan Moretti embarks on the piano-less jazz trio route, hearkening back to the impetus set forth by Sonny Rollins' 1957 Riverside classic, Way Out West. Since then, this framework has gained steam with modern jazz reedmen, sometimes leading to mixed results. Yet Marty Ballou's corpulent and limber electric bass lines generate a fertile bottom to complement drummer Marty Richards' polyrhythmic attack. The trio sports a broad and fluent sound, sparked by ...

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Dan Moretti and Once Through: Passing Place

by Dan McClenaghan
September 5, 2005

When I first heard saxophonist/bandleader Dan Moretti's Once Through, I loved the sound and proclaimed it “a wonderful debut." Moretti promptly wrote me (isn't email a great thing) to say that the release was his ninth as a leader. He was polite but insistent that I fix the published review. I complied, explaining that the sound on the disc seemed so fresh that I assumed the effort was from a very talented artist who was new to the scene.

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Dan Moretti/Marty Ballou/Marty Richards/Bruce Bartlett: Once Through

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2001

Like many of today's young artists, the performers on this album carry with them experience from playing in groups outside of jazz. You hear the influence of rock, pop, soul and R&B. Jazz purists might that this infects jazz with unwelcome and unneeded influences. The fact is that to survive, jazz needs to attract new listeners from each succeeding generation. Albums like this hopefully will draw in some of those who otherwise might not listen to jazz.

Tenor sax man ...