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Nuovo interessante lavoro di Francesco Turrisi, pianista torinese trasferitosi in Irlanda e eccellente tessitore di musiche diverse. Dopo Sì dolce è il tormento, su ispirazione di musiche seicentesche e con un ensemble assai curioso, qui lo troviamo in un classico trio piano-basso-batteria, a suonare, però, cose tutt'altro che scontate. L'ispirazione anche stavolta viene in parte dalla musica barocca: i “Pensierini" che attraversano il lavoro sono improvvisazioni che seguono la struttura della ciaccona. Anche se poi si dirigono nelle più diverse ...

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Francesco Turrisi: In Pursuit of Ecstasy

by Ian Patterson
September 27, 2011

It has often been said that composer/harpsichordist/violinist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was the first jazz musician. His contrapuntal techniques and ideas on harmony, rhythm and form have influenced countless jazz musicians. Numerous are the jazz musicians who have also studied classical music, usually prior to shifting to jazz. Few, however, are those who have taken a Master's degree in jazz and then opted to study early music, a term that refers to European classical music dating roughly from the Medieval ...

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Francesco Turrisi: Fotographia

Read "Fotographia" reviewed by Greg Simmons

by Greg Simmons
September 13, 2011

Encouraging experimentation is the lifeblood of jazz. It keeps the music vital and ensures that new voices get to have their say. The minute the music becomes a museum relic, played through a fixed, orthodox interpretation, is the moment it dies an ignominious death. Thank goodness, then, for musicians like pianist Francesco Turrisi, who embraces creative experimentation on Fotographia. This collection of fifteen vignettes periodically employs bassist Claus Kaarsgaard and percussionist Joao Lobo. But for the most part, ...

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Francesco Turrisi: Fotografia

Read "Fotografia" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 31, 2011

It would be simplistic to call pianist Francesco Turrisi an experimenter, though his music embraces myriad cultural influences, from his native Italy through the length and breadth of the Mediterranean, straddling the centuries, and imbibing from sources as diverse as baroque, Moorish airs and jazz; simplistic, because his music flows as naturally as a river follows its bed--it is in Turrisi and of him, and it guides him. As on Turrisi's memorable debut, Si Dolce e il Tormento (Diatribe, 2009), ...

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Francesco Turrisi: Sì dolce è il tormento

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2010

Artista interessante Francesco Turrisi, autore di questo bel lavoro ispirato direttamente dalla musica del Seicento e indirettamente da mille altre suggestioni. Il trentatreenne multistrumentista torinese, pianista ma anche fisarmonicista e percussionista, vive ormai da oltre dieci anni a Dublino e unisce la formazione jazzistica e la costante frequentazione di musicisti jazz (ha suonato tra gli altri con Liebman, Trovesi, Mirabassi, la De Vito) all'attività nella musica antica (suona il clavicembalo nell'ensemble L'Arpeggiata) e in quella popolare (con il gruppo Tarab ...

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Francesco Turrisi: Si Dolce e il Tormento

Read "Si Dolce e il Tormento" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
October 21, 2009

Turin-born Francesco Turrisi has been something of a breath of fresh air on the Irish music scene since arriving on the emerald isle in 2006. In a short time he has earned a reputation as an excellent jazz pianist, percussionist and accordionist; an original voice. He can be found playing in the ebullient Balkan-flavored Yurodny, or Zahr, a group which explores the reach and influence of Arabic music, and Tarab,a group which blends traditional Irish folk music with a cornucopia ...