Jazz Articles about Furio Di Castri

Di Castri, Cisi and Zirilli 'More for Joe' at Milestone in Piacenza

by Danilo Codazzi
February 9, 2024

Furio di Castri Quintet's Furious Mingus Revisited at Comunale Theatre Casalmaggiore

by Danilo Codazzi
January 2, 2023

Kenny Wheeler: All the More

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

Kenny Wheeler's gorgeous trumpet anchors these tracks, but also attracting attention here is the understated beauty and subtle adventurousness of John Taylor's piano. With that kind of combination in his playing, Taylor is a perfect match for Wheeler, who has straddled a few divides in his time. Much of this disc features the ethereal ECM-ish music Wheeler has made his trademark, but some of it harks back to Wheeler's earlier days as a pillar of the English “free music" scene ...

Paul Bley: Chaos

by Larry Koenigsberg
January 1, 1999

There's a fashion on many contemporary jazz recordings, in which the players are variously combined for each track: all on some tracks, just a few on others, perhaps just one or two on the rest, and no grouping the same. While Chaos follows this formula, the results have a consistency which is often lacking in straight-ahead releases thus assembled. The explorations of Bley, Di Castri and Oxley are so strong on their solo tracks that when they play together, they ...

Paul Bley: Chaos

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 1998

Chaos is a new collaborative effort from experimentalists Paul Bley (p), Furio Di Castri (b) and drummer Tony Oxley. What we have here is a series of duets, solos and trio settings.The Bley composition “Poetic Justice” typifies some of the trio’s introspective pieces which generally reside within the free jazz realm. Bley provides the melodic interludes while Oxley and Di Castri explore various rhythmic structures. Oxley’s inventions on the kit are legendary. His arsenal of odd sounding percussion ...