Jazz Articles about Fabrizio Spera

About Fabrizio Spera

Album Review

Marco Colonna / Edoardo Marraffa / Fabrizio Spera / Marco Zanotti: Red Planet

Read "Red Planet" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
May 24, 2024

Red Planet is the first public performance of an ad hoc quartet convened by Area Sismica, an arts initiative in Forli, northern Italy, dedicated to allowing tradition and innovation to coexist. The band brings together four stalwarts of the Italian scene, reedmen Marco Colonna and Edoardo Marraffa plus two drummers Fabrizio Spera and Marco Zanotti. For everyone involved it was their first concert following the long initial Covid lockdown and the communal vibe is palpable. In a near hour-long set, ...

Album Review

Roots Magic Sextet: Long Old Road

Read "Long Old Road" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 8, 2023

The poet Jayne Cortez once wrote “I'm taking the blues back to where / the blues stealers won't go / I'm talking the blues back home." For Roots Magic, back home isn't the crossroads where Robert Johnson made that infamous deal with the devil, but the peninsula in Southern Europe we call Italy. Long Old Road is the band's fourth release on Clean Feed Records and it follows Take Root Among The Stars (2020), Last Kind Words (2017), and Hoodoo ...