Jazz Articles about Il Sogno

About Il Sogno

Album Review

The group Il Sogno, a piano trio that employs a Wurlitzer piano along with an OB-6 synthesizer, steps back and forth over the line of melodic pop sensibilities into accessible jazz and soundtrack atmospherics to orchestral and sweeping soundscaping, presenting long and winding accompaniments to a surreal dreams—pretty in one tune, challenging and out there on the next. Birthday (Gotta Let It Out, 2017) is the band's first album. The follow-up—the disc in hand—is Graduation. The Polish-Danish-Italian trio—that ...

Album Review

Il Sogno: Birthday

Read "Birthday" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
March 4, 2019

Formazione multinazionale -italiano il pianista Emanuele Maniscalco, polacco il contrabbassista Tomo Jacobson, danese il batterista Oliver Laumann -e nato attorno al conservatorio di Copenhagen, Il sogno è quel che si dice un trio paritetico. In questo suo primo lavoro, registrato a Brescia nel 2015 e uscito nel 2017, il gruppo sviluppa dieci brani per complessivi trentacinque minuti, in larga parte improvvisati (solo la traccia di apertura e di chiusura sono rispettivamente di Jacobson e Maniscalco, mentre “Cheyenne" è di Ennio ...

Album Review

Il Sogno: Birthday

Read "Birthday" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 1, 2018

I know what you're thinking, the world doesn't need another piano trio. But I say, make way for the next wave. In order for jazz to perpetuate the species it must be continually reborn. New blood and more importantly, new approaches are crucial, lest we all get relegated to Lincoln Center. Exhibit one, Birthday by the Polish/Italian/Danish trio Il Sogno might be the proof that evolution in jazz is unstoppable. The Denmark-based trio of pianist Emanuele Maniscalco, bassist ...