Jazz Articles about Ennio Morricone

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Album Review

Alex Sino / Terry Heimat / Richard Bravo: Alma Libre

Read "Alma Libre" reviewed by Karan Khosla

by Karan Khosla
July 23, 2025

Some albums carry the signature of a single artist. Alma Libre, which translates to “Free Soul," takes a different path, shaped by a team of Grammy-winning producers, arrangers and musicians who thrive on collaboration. Producers Alex Sino and Richard Bravo, along with conductor and arranger Terry Heimat (Taras Kutsenko), steer the album's direction; the performers include Cuban trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval, saxophonist Ed Calle, pianist Milton Salcedo, guitarist Francis Goya Francis Goya, trumpeters Terry Heimat and Julio Ariel Díaz, pianists ...

Building a Jazz Library

Ennio Morricone: Fabled Hoard Of 1970s Library Music Reissued

by Chris May
October 23, 2020

Practically unobtainable since their release by RCA Italy in 1972, the ten albums which make up Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai's Dimensioni Sonore: Musiche Per L'Immagine E L'Immaginazione are being reissued by Dialogo on October 30 2020. The new release plugs a chasm in the availability of classic-era library music, which at its best is an art form worthy of serious attention. It does not get more fascinating than on Dimensioni Sonore, which is regarded as the Holy Grail of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Ennio Morricone + Betty LaVette, Gordon Grdina, Billy Martin & New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 21, 2020

This week we pay tribute to the late Ennio Morricone the way we often do, through renditions of his memorable soundtracks performed by contemporary creative jazz artists like John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Marco Cappelli, Guano Padano, and Oddjob. We then check out some great new releases that cross borders, stylistic definitions and generations. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Jeff Cosgrove, John Medeski, Jeff Lederer “O'Neal's Porch" History ...