Jazz Articles about Giovanni Tommaso

Giovanni Tommaso Quintet: Secondo Tempo

by Javier AQ Ortiz
June 19, 2002

Giovanni Tommaso won the 2001-2002 Jazziz Critic's Picks with La Dolce Vita and such a recognition led to the “Second Part," as the title means, under review here. Even so, this is no haphazardly produced or executed sequel.

Secondo Tempo is Italian cinematic soundtracks, of varying fame, reinterpreted within the jazz tenor range of a sax, 'bone and traditional rhythm section, using attention-grabbing arrangements performed at a superior level by experienced musicians.

Everyone, given the ...

Giovanni Tomaso: Third Step

by Ernesto De Pascale
November 1, 1998

Third Step , the latest release by composer and esteemed acoustic bassist Giovanni Tommaso, celebrates the bassist's 40th anniversary in the jazz world. A wide range of rhythmic patterns - from Waltz, Tarantella and Calypso to Minuetto, Tango and Twist - form Third Step ’s main inspiration. Tommaso and his partners, the best of Italian Jazz musicians, offer a sixty-minute emotional set based on eleven original compositions by Giovanni.Most notably, “Tangoing," by Grammy-nominated composer Louis Bacalov (of “The ...