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Massimo Colombo, Chuck Berghofer, Peter Erskine: Electric Parker
by Maurizio Zerbo
Un salto indietro nel tempo per riassaporare la musica di Charlie Parker, nume tutelare del bebop. Un'occasione per riascoltare alcuni dei gioielli più iridescenti del jazz moderno da una prospettiva timbrica inusuale, quella del piano elettrico. Su Electric Parker si ammira uno swing elegante e fantasioso, di tanto in tanto impreziosito dalle linee chiaroscurali del sintetizzatore. La ritmica stellare produce un mobile tappeto sonoro, funzionale al saettante solismo del leader. Ma si ha l'impressione che Colombo avrebbe potuto ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo, Peter Erskine, Chuck Berghofer: Electric Parker
by Jim Worsley
While mostly under the radar, Massimo Colombo is surely one of Europe's finest talents. The Italian pianist and arranger has many works to his credit, including his exceptional tributes to Bud Powell and Weather Report, Powell To The People (Jazzland DZ, 2018) and Acoustic Weather (Self-produced, 2019). Colombo now reimagines the genius of Charlie Parker with drummer Peter Erskine and double bassist Chuck Berghofer. Having recorded together previously, the trio's chemistry flows easily. It is indeed electric as ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo: Personalities
by Angelo Leonardi
Oltre che autorevole insegnante di conservatorio, Massimo Colombo è uno dei pianisti e compositori più eclettici e raffinati del panorama nazionale. Un artista dai molteplici interessi che riguardano la world music, il concertismo classico, la musica da camera e altro. In un quarto di secolo d'attività professionale ha inciso quasi ottanta album, in proprio e con i massimi jazzmen nazionali (Rava, Tracanna, Zanchi, Ottaviano, Fresu ecc...) e internazionali. Tra questi ultimi ricordiamo il trio del 2005 con Jeff Berlin e ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo, Maurizio Quintavalle, Enzo Zirilli: Acoustic Weather (The Music of Weather Report)
by Claudio Bonomi
Dopo l'ottima prova dell'anno scorso in cui il trio aveva omaggiato Bud Powell in Powell to the People, Massimo Colombo e soci riscendono in campo, puntando questa volta al repertorio dei Weather Report. In tutto otto brani tratti da quattro importanti album della band americana pubblicati tra il 1976 ed il 1985: Black Market ("Black Market," “Elegant People"), Heavy Weather ("A Remark You Made," “Teen Town," “Palladium"), Mr. Gone ("Punk Jazz," “Pinocchio") e Sportin' Life ("Face on the ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo: Acoustic Weather (The Music of Weather Report)
by Jim Worsley
Depending on your point of view, Weather Report either defined or redefined fusion during the 1970s. Their vivid approach and instrumental dynamics were mind blowing back then and still set the bar. Somehow pianist Joe Zawinul and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, always buoyed by a top-notch rhythm section, defied the odds by creating spirited fusion without the sound of an electric guitar that was so prevalent in other fusion bands. Veteran jazz pianist Massimo Colombo took on the task ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo: Italy's Erudite Jazz Pianista
by Jim Worsley
Nestled in Northern Italy, the city of Milano is steeped in artistic tradition. Revolutionary in the historical sense in literature, music, art, science, and other scholarly endeavors, Milano is still today a hotbed of innovation and a source knowledge and creation. Enter one Massimo Colombo to the forefront of the conversation. A gifted jazz pianist, Colombo was born in Milano in 1961. In addition to his inventive and wide-ranging jazz narrative on the keys, Colombo is a true ...
Continue ReadingMassimo Colombo Trio "Powell To The People" At Nuoro Jazz Festival 2018
by Danilo Codazzi
