Jazz Articles about Paolo Fresu

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Paolo Fresu, Qwalia, Mark Guiliana, Yelena Eckemoff & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 6, 2024

This time around our special focus is Paolo Fresu who is celebrating 40 years of activity with his historic Quartet, 20 years with his electric Devil Quartet, and 22 years with pianist Uri Caine. To mark these three anniversaries he has released a gorgeous triple album entitled Legacy (and the limited edition companion triple LP (next) Legacy). This episode also features the latest albums by Yelena Eckemoff featuring Paolo Fresu, Moppa Elliott celebrating bassist Sam Jones, Mark Guiliana playing all ...

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Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine at Val Nure Festival 2024

by Danilo Codazzi
June 29, 2024

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Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon

by Doug Collette
June 14, 2024

Comparable to the rare and valuable likes of a first edition book worth treasuring, Yelena Eckemoff's Romance of the Moon is no small achievement. The keyboardist/composer creates music as vivid as the images in her own paintings that adorn the inside and out of the CD package, all of which graphics (as well as those in the enclosed booklet) appear in a glossy finish. And that corresponds to the polish of the production of a baker's dozen compositions ...

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Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet Impromptus at the 2024 Cremona Jazz Festival

by Danilo Codazzi
May 21, 2024

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Yelena Eckemoff: Romance of the Moon

by Tyran Grillo
May 10, 2024

With Romance of the Moon, Yelena Eckemoff descends further into the symbolic night, carrying Federico García Lorca's poetry as a living grammar in her heart. This suite of 13 compositions does not illustrate the poems so much as converse with them, answering their obsessions with music that listens as intently as it speaks. Lorca's moons, bells, animals, and silences find a second life here, translated into pulse and pause. Eckemoff assembles a band whose collective intelligence feels instinctive ...

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Il Volo del Jazz 2022

by Luca A. d'Agostino
January 7, 2023

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Paolo Fresu: When Musician Turns Poet

by Nathalie Tamara Freson
October 2, 2022

Paolo Fresu—a multidimensional artist whose creative overdrive has shaped the Italian jazz scene for almost forty years. With definite hints to Chet Baker and Miles Davis, Fresu has honed a particularly mellow, velvety sound which is absolutely compelling. Even when he tackles coarser, more upbeat tempos, he captivates his listeners with his original approach, switching between trumpet, muted trumpet and flugelhorn, and sometimes employing electronic effects. Indeed, using technology in a creative process, as Paolo Fresu occasionally does in live ...