Jazz Articles about Daniele D'Agaro

Daniele D'Agaro: Chicago Overtones

by AAJ Staff
July 9, 2005

Italian reed player Daniele D'Agaro creates music full of broad, sweeping gestures. His tenor saxophone sound is gigantic, with a warm and wide vibrato, and an attack that runs from the gentle caressing of notes to extended shards of intentional overblowing. His clarinet playing has the same command of sound, with a massive, piercing tone and a conception that integrates the entire history of the instrument. On Chicago Overtones, which covers a wide scope ranging from Ellington and Leadbelly to ...

Daniele D'Agaro: Chicago Overtones

by Chris May
July 4, 2005

With a distinguished track record of retro/repertory and free/new territories projects already behind him, Italian reedist Daniele D'Agaro brings the various strands of his music together here in a luminous, edge-of-your-seat masterpiece which will delight anyone with one ear for jazz history and another for its future. The album is simultaneously a reaffirmation of the past and a space probe into the beyond.

Chicago Overtones has traces and reference points as wide and deep as jazz itself--from Leadbelly, ...

Daniele D'Agaro/Ernst Glerum/Han Bennink: Strandjutters

by Jerry D'Souza
December 5, 2003

Roll up for an entertaining shot of jazz brought in by a trio that creates interesting edifices on the expansive field of improvisation through moves that startle and delight. It all holds together, which in the end is what counts.

The prime factor is the interplay. The three read each other so seamlessly that the flow seems magical. Ideas jump out, are picked up and developed. Reedist Daniele D’Agaro can spin a phrase, take it into an angular ...