Jazz Articles about Emilio Solla

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Emilio Solla & The Tango Jazz Conspiracy: Bien Sur!

by Dan Bilawsky
January 30, 2010

"Tango Jazz," like virtually every other genre-descriptor, is a convenient tag used to categorize what, ultimately, is better understood through listening. Emilio Solla, along with musicians like Pablo Aslan and Pablo Ziegler, are at the forefront of this style. Solla says it best when he explains that the “tango" portion of the title usually refers to the Argentinean origins of the musicians in question, and the “jazz" label addresses the improvisational elements within. Regardless of what it all really means, ...

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Emilio Solla y Afines: Conversas (al Lado Del Agua)

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 13, 2008

Guardando la formazione, che prevede un bandoneon, ed il titolo della prima traccia, avevo temuto l'ennesimo album di tanghi e milonghe. Generi apprezzabilissimi ma insomma... ormai si sta esagerando. In realtà la musica di questo gruppo spagnolo in gita newyorkese è un album prettamente jazzistico, a tratti fin troppo prevedibilmente jazzistico (la quinta traccia), ma comunque non privo di spunti di interesse. La delicatezza di “Bat Gorkaren Tzat", ad esempio, o l'ironia di “Remain Alert", chiaro riferimento agli ossessivi messaggi ...

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Emilio Solla's Tango Jazz Project at Smalls, NYC

by James Nichols
May 25, 2007

Emilio Solla's Tango-Jazz Project Smalls New York City April 28, 2007

On the weekend of April 28, Emilio Solla brought a heady blend of jazz and distinctly Argentinian music to the intimate setting of Smalls in the West Village. At Smalls most of the seats are the standard issue kitchen chairs, and there really is no stage. The effect is one of simplicity and charm complemented by warmth and enhanced intimacy due to the ...

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Emilio Solla Y Afines: Sentido

by Dan McClenaghan
August 6, 2004

Emilio Solla's music marries Argentinian tango and folklore sensibilities with American jazz and the sounds of Spain and, in the case of “Llegara, Llegara, Llegara," the stunningly beautiful fifteen minute opener on Sentido , the rhythms of Uruguay.No music comes to us in a vacuum, of course, and of note here are the CDs that the sounds of Solla's latest bring to mind: Maria Schneider's recent near masterpiece, Concert in the Garden , and Wayne Shorter's much top ...

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Emilio Solla y Afines: Sentido

by Joshua Weiner
July 12, 2004

Every once in a while appears music of such accomplishment and beauty that it completely transcends boundaries of style or culture to become (if it is not an oxymoron) an instant classic. Sentido, the gorgeous new record by Argentinean pianist Emilio Solla and his group Afines, contains such music. Forget, for the moment, that is part of Fresh Sound's “World Jazz" imprint, and that it incorporates many aspects of South American folk music; “world" or no, this is simply one ...

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Emilio Solla y la Orquestrable: Suite Piazzollana

by Dan McClenaghan
September 18, 2002

If you haven't developed a taste for the tango, a love for the gentle sighing breeze of the squeezebox, then Emilio Solla's Suite Piazzollana might seem to be inhabiting a space out in music's left field. The musical pallet, for the American ear, is a bit unusual: two saxophones, trumpet, cello, violin, bandoneon, bass, drums, and cajon y tinaja (percussion), and Emilio Solla's piano. For those not familiar with the bandoneon (Astor Piazzolla's instrument; more later), it is ...