Jazz Articles about Jim Pugliese

About Jim Pugliese

Album Review

IDR - Italian Doc Remix: Pandemonium

Read "Pandemonium" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
October 24, 2022

Chitarrista e compositore campano da tempo trasferitosi a New York, Marco Cappelli da qualche anno ha messo in piedi, assieme al percussionista italo-americano Jim Pugliese, una formazione denominata IDR, Italian Doc Remix, composta in larga parte da italiani residenti negli Stati Uniti o da italo-americani, con i quali “gioca" con la tradizione delle sue terre, rinnovandola con strumenti e arrangiamenti contemporanei che attingono ampiamente a stilemi jazzistici senza abbandonare forme espressive tradizionali, ma anche filtrandola attraverso il modo in cui ...

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Album Review

Jim Pugliese: Live @ Issue Project Room NYC

Read "Live @ Issue Project Room NYC" reviewed by Francis Lo Kee

by Francis Lo Kee
March 18, 2009

In the tradition of raucously creative Downtown NYC jazz-rock bands like Curlew and Naked City, Jim Pugliese's Phase III burns with passion that is both musical and conceptually bold and is a great working band, not just a thrown-together collection of accomplished soloists. Yet these are not mere AABA compositions nor are they played to display a pristine sense of melody: they thrash and kick about like kids having fun in a playground, yet with an adult's deep connection and ...