Jazz Articles about Leonardo Montana

About Leonardo Montana

Album Review

Naïssam Jalal: Landscapes of Eternity

Read "Landscapes of Eternity" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 27, 2026

It is impossible to spend any significant amount of time travelling in India without being affected by both its beauty and its poverty. The contrasts between the choking, sprawling metropolises and the river-crossed countryside--with its emerald rice fields and stepped tea plantations--are striking. So too is the chasm between deeply embedded spirituality and the cruel caste system. Then there is the food, the heady festivals and the beguiling music. The senses are bombarded 24/7. As Indian writer Arundhati Roy put ...

Album Review

Arnaud Dolmen, Leonardo Montana: LéNo

by Angelo Leonardi
February 6, 2025

Residenti in Francia dai primi anni duemila, il batterista/percussionista Arnaud Dolmen e il pianista Leonardo Montana sono ormai personalità di rilievo del jazz transalpino. Dolmen è originario della Guadalupa dove ha svolto le prime esperienze formative e professionali. Nel 2003 ha completato la sua formazione a Tolosa, ha inciso numerosi album in proprio o da sideman ed è stato considerato uno dei migliori cinque batteristi del 2021 dalla rivista d'oltralpe Jazz Magazine. Montana è cresciuto tra ...