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Richard Galliano: Sentimentale
by Hrayr Attarian
Accordionist Richard Galliano is a true innovator of both the extemporized role of his instrument and of the fusion of French folk music with jazz. His breathtaking instrumental facility combined with a creative ingenuity makes his oeuvre, particularly the series of superb albums on Dreyfus Jazz, uniquely satisfying. In view of this, his release on the non-for-profit Resonance Label, Sentimentale is a bit of a letdown. A couple of Galliano compositions, and a few jazz, Bossa Nova and ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano: Tangaria
by Chris May
A little accordion can go a long way. Its sound is a knife edge away from a dolorous monotone, and stubbornly resists modulation. It is no accident that Argentinian tango, the style indelibly associated with the instrument, typically deals with loss and bad luck. Few accordionists are able to cast off this baggage, but Richard Galliano is one who can.
An inventive, virtuoso performer with solid jazz chops, Galliano is at home with a variety of atmospheres, including ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano: Paris Concert - Live at the Théâtre du Châtelet
by AAJ Italy Staff
Ma quanti CD incide Richard Galliano? Uno è già pronto (From Billie Holliday to Edit Piaf) e lo ha visto dialogare col Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Un altro paio ce l'ha in testa (e forse già nelle sue preziose dita). Da un lato un riscrittura di Bach (L'arte della fuga), dall'altro un progetto con Kurt Elling (dopo aver passato una buona parte della sua carriera con Ives Montand e Juliette Greco, tra gli altri). E dire che lo stesso musicista italo-francesce ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano: Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions
by Jakob Baekgaard
The beauty of music is in its ability to compress. A whole lifetime of emotions can be contained in a song. Music, in a way, is the most abstract way of speaking and yet it is also the most direct utterance one can think of. The same can be said of love. Love and music transcend time while still being situated in history. Love that's here today can be gone tomorrow.
Richard Galliano's Love Day can be heard ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano / Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Ten Years Ago
by Chris May
An energetic recording artist who since 2007 has been averaging three albums a year, accordionist Richard Galliano appears even more prolific because of the quick-fire diversity of contexts in which he places himself--solo, with his Tangaria quartet, with European and American jazz groups ranging from duos to larger lineups, and with strings. Between them, Galliano's albums have embraced tango, jazz, chanson and the classics. In a long career as leader however, he has never recorded with a big band--until now ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano: Love Day - Los Angeles Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Una giornata d’amore può essere scandita in tanti modi. C’è chi si sveglia col sapore in bocca di una notte romantica, buon viatico per il giorno dopo. Altri, avrebbero tanti di quei pensieri uggiosi in testa che non ne vorrebbero per niente sentirne parlare. Richard Galliano sceglie l’aura della retorica, quella nobile, affidandosi alla sua fisarmonica per descrivere momenti diversi e uniti in un giorno d’amore. È felice, si sente. Si fa fotografare sorridente con il suo amore alle spalle ...
Continue ReadingRichard Galliano: Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions
by Chris May
French-Italian accordionist Richard Galliano began recording for the Milan label in the mid-2000s, since when he's released two tango-based albums, Luz Negra (Milan, 2007) and Live In Marciac (Milan, 2007), made with his Tangaria Quartet. Galliano's Love Day: Los Angeles Session finds him returning to another love, new musette, a jazz-inflected recalibration of the bal-musette cafe music developed by French and Italian musicians in late 19th century Paris.Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions is bal-musette with a further twist ...
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