Jazz Articles about Sergi Sirvent

Sergi Sirvent Smooth Trio At Jamboree

by Artur Moral
June 2, 2025

Sergi Sirvent Smooth Trio Jamboree Barcelona, Spain May 24, 2025 The media and popular impact of different musical areas and their players is often a challenging mystery to unravel. Many authors suffer from a significant imbalance between their media exposure and audience reception, compared to the intrinsic quality of their work. The case of Sergi Sirvent is particularly outrageous: one of the most fascinating musicians in Catalonia--and, by extension, in Spain and the European scene--continues ...

Hat: Hi Ha

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 18, 2007

Arriva dalla regione catalana questo originale quartetto che mette il jazz insieme ad influenze più leggere come il pop, il rock, il reggae. In modo sempre originale ed interessante, grazie anche ad un uso intenso del Fender Rodhes, e ad una bellissima interazione di questo con la chitarra (a tratti dalla timbrica friselliana) di Matas. Le composizioni sono sempre piacevoli, morbidamente appoggiate su modelli consolidati quelle lente, più estroverse ed interessanti quelle sui tempi veloci. Peccato la caduta di stile ...

Sergi Sirvent: Free Quartet

by AAJ Staff
October 11, 2005

Sergi Sirvent is an interesting young pianist whose style is hard to pigeonhole. To his credit, he is shaping a thoroughly original approach to jazz piano improvisation. On the other hand, his improvisations sound fragmented at times, almost as if they were a series of isolated phrases and ideas with insufficient connective tissue.

In the CD booklet Sirvent says, “I wanted to try and investigate more in hearing the chords rather than writing them down." In other words, ...