Jazz Articles about Gabriele Mitelli

About Gabriele Mitelli

Album Review

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: A Decent Run

Read "A Decent Run" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 24, 2026

Who needs poetry in an age of internet memes, infinite scrolling and artificial intelligence? Poems ask us to linger over words, to discover meaning in silence as much as in language. Memes, by contrast, are consumed in an instant and forgotten just as quickly. We live in a culture that increasingly prizes immediacy over reflection, image over text and distraction over contemplation. So who still needs poetry? Italian clarinetist Giancarlo Nino Locatelli makes a compelling case that we all do. ...

Album Review

Pipeline: Ahead Of July

Read "Ahead Of July" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 21, 2026

With most recordings, listeners are conditioned to identify a leader. Typically, it is the artist whose name appears on the cover, or occasionally the composer responsible for the material. Pipeline upends that expectation. This is unequivocally an ensemble recording, and to further complicate matters, all of the music is collectively credited. For those familiar with the Pipeline project, this may come as a surprise. The concept was created by clarinetist Giancarlo Nino Locatelli, also one of the proprietors of We ...

Album Review

Gabriele Mitelli Three Tsuru Origami: Colapesce

Read "Colapesce" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
August 4, 2025

The second release from Gabriele Mitelli's Three Tsuru Origami ensemble shifts from the literal to the symbolic, expanding both in concept and personnel. Their debut, Three Tsuru Origami (We Insist!, 2022), was a meditation on birds and migration. This follow-up, Colapesce, draws inspiration from the 12th-century Sicilian legend of a half-man, half-fish who sacrifices himself to save his island. The tale, a fixture of Mediterranean folklore, resurfaced in pop culture through the 1964 film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, in which ...

Live Review

We Insist! – Live in Martesana

by Paolo Peviani
May 27, 2024

Casa delle Arti We Insist!--Live in Martesana Cernusco Sul Naviglio 18--19.06.2024 A volte, occorre spostarsi dai percorsi abituali per scoprire delle gemme nascoste. Come la Casa delle Arti di Cernusco sul Naviglio, nel cui auditorium (un gioiellino che per dimensioni ed acustica risulta perfetto per il jazz--v. la galleria fotografica di Luciano Rossetti/Phocus) la Fondazione We Insist! ha organizzato un mini-festival di due giorni incentrato sulla musica improvvisata e di ricerca.

Album Review

Gabriele Mitelli: Three Tsuru Origami

Read "Three Tsuru Origami" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
April 28, 2023

Nuovo progetto originale di Gabriele Mitelli, in trio con una epica ritmica inglese —John Edwards e Mark Sanders hanno lavorato assieme con personalità come Evan Parker o Veryan Weston —, ispirato e dedicato idealmente ai volatili e alle loro migrazioni, ricco di riferimenti alle stagioni più libere e aperte della musica jazz. Il disco è incastonato tra due emblematici omaggi: il primo è “New One," del sassofonista sudafricano Sean Bergin, protagonista prima della stagione della diaspora degli artisti ...

Album Review

Gabriele Mitelli / John Edwards / Mark Sanders: Three Tsuru Origami

Read "Three Tsuru Origami" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 26, 2022

Birds of a feather, as they say, flock together. Proof positive is the trio of Italian trumpeter Gabriele Mitelli (who also doubles on soprano saxophone and electronics), and the Englishmen, bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders. Three Tsuru Origami (tsuru is the Japanese word for crane) continues the avian theme with the bulk of the material dedicated to our feathered friends. Sanders and Edwards are familiar names in free jazz and improvisation circles, being the first call ...

Live Review

NovaraJazz 2021

by Libero Farnè
June 17, 2021

Novara Varie sedi 3-13.6.21 Su due binari paralleli ha proceduto il tragitto progettuale di NovaraJazz, giunto alla diciottesima edizione. Il primo obiettivo, come negli anni passati, è stato quello di andare alla ricerca di spazi suggestivi, per lo più storici e centrali, ma non abitualmente destinati alla musica. Questo non tanto o non solo per valorizzare a fini turistici una rete di luoghi anomali, a volte poco frequentati, quanto per rivelarne la polifunzionalità e la ...