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Giammarco-Lande-Leveratto-Gatto: Love Ballads

by Glenn Astarita
Love Ballads features the criminally under recognized pianist Art Lande along with saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco, drummer Roberto Gatto and bassist Piero Leveratto, performing a series of classic love ballads and two Lande originals. Periodically, Lande is prone to skirt the non-mainstream side of things but here performs wonderfully with his equally adept cohorts. Giammarco’s husky, corpulent sounding tenor performance on Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” is a throwback to the great’s of yesteryear ala Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. On ...
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