Jazz Articles about Negroni's Trio

Negroni's Trio: Piano/Drums/Bass

by Michael P. Gladstone
October 6, 2004

Pianist Jose Negroni contributes most of the ten compositions on this new album save for Wayne Shorter's “Footprint" [sic] and Gershwin's “Summertime." The vibe of the pianist and the trio is that of the emerging style of Michel Camilo when he started recording in the mid-'80s. Both men exhibit the same intensive and percussive Latin-based piano jazz style, and bassist Jaime Rivera covers the same ground on his fleet electric bass solos as Anthony Jackson or Lincoln Goines two decades ...