Jazz Articles about Marco Ignoti

About Marco Ignoti

Album Review

Roberto Bonati Chironomic Orchestra: The Gesture Of Sound / The Gesture Of Colour

Read "The Gesture Of Sound / The Gesture Of Colour" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining
July 14, 2025

Someone once said that writing about music was as illogical as singing about economics. Writers about music inevitably bristle at the suggestion but it might have merit when it comes to improvised music. How do you write about something that can never be recreated, even when recorded and preserved for posterity? We can discuss its method of creation, the sounds made by those who perform it, its colours and textures and our emotional and intellectual responses to it in much ...

Album Review

Roberto Bonati + ParmaFrontiere Orchestra: La fòla de l’oca/Overtime

Read "La fòla de l’oca/Overtime" reviewed by Duncan Heining

by Duncan Heining
July 6, 2023

Bassist/composer Roberto Bonati is one of the most imaginative and creative composers working in 2023. His past recordings evidence a fondness for literary and philosophical concerns, grand conceits that his compositional skills are more than able to match. A Silvery Silence: fragments from Moby Dick (MM Records 2006) pondered obsession versus conscience, while The Blanket of the Dark, a Study for Lady Macbeth ( MM Records, 2001) explored Shakespeare's -and Verdi's -tragic themes from the lady's perspective. Le Rêve du ...