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Simone Guiducci: il ritorno del Gramelot

Read "Simone Guiducci: il ritorno del Gramelot" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi

Il recente Mantova Jazz Festival ha visto il ritorno del Gramelot Ensemble di Simone Guiducci, uno dei gruppi più originali del jazz italiano nell'ultimo trentennio. Dopo una lunga pausa, il chitarrista e leader lombardo ha rimesso assieme i membri storici della formazione per quella che non è una riunione celebrativa ma un ritorno in piena regola. Lo sviluppo di un progetto nato nel 1995 che ha realizzato in sette album ospitando Chris Speed, Enrico Rava, Don Byron, Ralph Alessi, Erik ...

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Album Review

Simone Guiducci: Django New Directions

Read "Django New Directions" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

La scommessa di questo bell'album di Simone Guiducci, uscito in occasione del centenario della nascita di Django Reinhardt, è dichiaratamente quella di mettere in luce la verve compositiva del chitarrista gitano invece che puntare le luci del proscenio sulla sua prodigiosa abilità tecnica come chitarrista. Le composizioni di Django ben si prestano a questo trattamento che le rende attuali e moderne, anche perché il chitarrista scriveva di getto, spesso ignorando le regole (anche perché non ne conosceva) e quindi in ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Storie di Fiume

Read "Storie di Fiume" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson

On first listening to Storie di fiume(River Tales), Simone Guiducci's Gramelot Ensemble's fourth recording, one wonders whether this is folk music colored by jazz, or jazz music influenced by folk. But like the confluence of two rivers there comes a point where it is impossible to distinguish the two separate entities--the absorption is complete and mutual.

On the opening track, “Uomini di fiume," the accordion of Fausto Beccalossi and the clarinet of Achille Succi blend as one, carrying ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Storie di fiume

Read "Storie di fiume" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Nuovo lavoro del chitarrista Simone Guiducci con il suo Gramelot Ensemble, che per l'etichetta Felmay sono giunti al quarto CD, dopo Cantador, Chorale e Dancin' Roots. In questa occasione il gruppo torna a far leva solo sui cinque elementi originari, senza ospiti, e come al solito esplora territori musicali connessi alla memoria popolare rivisitata con libertà e creatività. Già i titoli dei brani simboleggiano questa poetica autoctona, esaltata dalle sonorità della chitarra del leader e della fisarmonica di Beccalossi, per ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Storie di Fiume

Read "Storie di Fiume" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Italian acoustic guitarist and composer Simone Guiducci has performed with German bass legend Eberhard Weber and American multi-reedist Chris Speed, among other notables. On Storie di Fiume, the artist's alterable Gramelot Ensemble fuses the sounds of Mediterranean folk music with spiraling improvisational forays.

Guiducci's signature invocation of jazz and Italian melodies is something of a trademark sound. At times peaceable and slightly raucous, the leader commandeers linear progressions with veteran woodwind player Achille Succi, solely performing on clarinets for this ...

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Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble: Dancin' Roots

Read "Dancin' Roots" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Italian acoustic guitarist Simone Guiducci often employs well-known American jazz musicians for his conspicuously ambitious projects. With this effort, he benefits from clarinetist Don Byron's expertise, along with rising star trumpeter Ralph Alessi and other top-notch instrumentalists. Guiducci's trademark fusion of Mediterranean themes with complex harmonic sojourns once again offers more than just a few rewarding attributes. His muse features a classy brew consisting of complex unison lines, off-meter Latin grooves, and lyrically rich melodies.

Accordionist Fausto Beccalossi's ...

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Simone Guiducci: Dancin' Roots

Read "Simone Guiducci: Dancin' Roots" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

By Angelo Leonardi

Born in 1962 in Turin, Italy, guitarist and composer Simone Guiducci has been hailed as a creative voice on the contemporary Italian jazz scene. He's made several internationally acclaimed recordings as a leader including his two latest, Dancin' Roots (Felmay, 2005) and Chorale (Felmay, 2003). With his ongoing project “Gramelot", Guiducci explores the creative dialogue between Italian folklore themes and jazz improvisation.

His “Gramelot Ensemble" has been comprised of distinguished Italian musicians over the years including Enrico ...

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