Jazz Articles about Luca Zambito

About Luca Zambito

Album Review

Nils Kugelmann Trio: Life Score

Read "Life Score" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 23, 2025

Life Score is the second album from the Nils Kugelmann Trio, following on from Stormy Beauty (ACT Music, 2022). That album (reviewed here) gestated during the pandemic, so there was little chance to test the pieces before going into the studio. This time around the tunes have been arranged and refined over numerous live appearances. Kugelmann is a German bassist with a strong storytelling aspect to his music, as he explains: “For me, making the connection between music ...

Album Review

Nils Kugelmann: Stormy Beauty

Read "Stormy Beauty" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 5, 2023

Anyone can be excused for making the early assumption that the vibrant elegance of Stormy Beauty is the effort of a well-travelled, veteran bassist and his trio. It is not. But it sounds as if it is. Strikingly concise, persuasive and effective, the young German bassist and composer Nils Kugelmann's debut is an eye-opening and ear- pleasing listen from beginning to end, and then from the beginning to end again. With fellow young interpreters Luca Zambito on piano ...