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3 Play +: American Waltz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un contrabbassista (Lello Molinari) e un batterista (Marcello Pellitteri) italiani che insegnano alla prestigiosa Berklee College of Music, un pianista (Josh Rosen) che ama flirtare con la musica etiopica ed indonesiana, ed ecco formato il 3 Play. Un trombettista (Phil Granadier) che ha frequentato tanto Anthony Braxton che Dionne Warwick, Freddy Hubbard e James Brown, ed ecco il + presente nel nome del gruppo. Un'etichetta, la Ziggle Zaggle, che debutta proprio con questo American Waltz e lo fa in maniera ...
Continue ReadingThe Music of George Garzone & the Triadic Chromatic Approach
by Tom Greenland
George Garzone The Music of George Garzone & The Triadic Chromatic Approach Jody Jazz 2008 Boston-based tenor saxophonist George Garzone is one of the most overlooked giants of modern improvisation. Primarily designed for intermediate and advanced musicians interested in expanding their improvisational toolkit, this two-disc DVD set contains step-by-step instructions, narrated and demonstrated by Garzone, on how to develop a “Triadic Chromatic Approach." In simplified terms, the concept entails generating ...
Continue ReadingGeorge Garzone: Steering Clear of Ideology
by Matthew Miller
An esoteric system and guru status among musicians makes for an easy target in today's niche-driven market. Terms like musician's musician and classicist start getting thrown around as a way to commodify and explain away public indifference. This, luckily, is a non-issue for George Garzone. The veteran saxophonist has avoided pigeonholing his entire career, letting his emotionally resonant music speak for itself. “We never put in any boundaries on the music," said the saxophonist of his longstanding group The Fringe ...
Continue ReadingChris Crocco: The Chris Crocco Fluid Trio
by AAJ Italy Staff
Insolito questo trio chitarra/sax/batteria. Insolito come strumentazione - non sono numerosissime simili formazioni nella discografia jazzistica - ma insolito soprattutto nel risultato. Perché nonostante i tre musicisti gravitino, a vari livelli di osservanza, nell’ambito dell’ortodossia, The Chris Crocco Fluid Trio è ben lontano dall’essere un disco incanalato in un mainstream aggiornato ma prevedibile. Perché Francisco Mela è un formidabile batterista cubano che come pochi sa alternare l’esuberanza ritmica tipica della sua terra con delicatezze timbriche e sottigliezze metriche insospettabili. Perché ...
Continue ReadingGeorge Garzone: The Fringe In New York
by Mark Corroto
Sometime after the death of John Coltrane and before the rise of the conservative button-down star as repertoire performer, the influence that Trane had over jazz waned. It’s not that he was forgotten, but that his music required such a commitment from a musician that it must have scared away most by sheer intimidation. Within the past twenty years, musicians like Joe Lovano, Dewey Redman, Pharoah Sanders, David S. Ware, Roy Campbell, Julius Hemphill, and George Garzone have taken up ...
Continue ReadingGeorge Garzone: Moodiology
by Mark Corroto
Legendary Boston saxophonist George Garzone may not quit his day job as a jazz educator, but with each record he releases, the more fans and critical attention he garners. He plays sideman to Joe Lovano on his upcoming Blue Note release and has stood as equal on his own 1996 Fours And Twos (NYC). Like Lovano, he is a descendant of the Coltrane school of the tenor saxophone. That is evident on the opening track, which recalls “A Love Supreme”, ...
Continue ReadingFrank Tiberi: Tiberian Mode
by Jack Bowers
Better late than never. Although Frank Tiberi’s stature among his fellow musicians approaches legendary, it took a Woody Herman alumnus (John Nugent) with his own record company to appreciate the benefits of bringing the present leader of the Herman Herd into a studio to document his prodigious talents. And while doing so, to invite two of Tiberi’s ardent admirers and former “students,” saxophonists Joe Lovano and George Garzone, to take part in the session. Lovano and Garzone are graduates of ...
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