Jazz Articles about Sofia Tosello

About Sofia Tosello

Album Review

Emilio Solla and La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

Read "Handmade" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
July 15, 2026

As the power of artificial intelligence (AI) grows exponentially, it has begun to permeate even the highest expressions of our humanity. AI-generated art of many kinds--literary, visual, and musical--appears on screens large and small daily. Handmade, a gorgeous double album by New York-based Argentinian pianist and composer Emilio Solla, featuring his nonet Inestable de Brooklyn, seeks to build a bridge across this uncanny valley." Handmade is an apologia of the tactile," says GRAMMY-nominated Solla. “We are moving further away from ...

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Album Review

Sofia Tosello: Alma y Luna

Read "Alma y Luna" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 10, 2009

There is a story that bears telling about Brazilian musician/multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti and legendary teacher, Nadia Boulanger. Upon hearing him and evaluating his technique and higher knowledge of harmonic devices, the story goes that Boulanger said to him afterward, “Go back and learn the music of your country. This will unlock your voice and the world will then hear you." Gismonti returned to Brazil, spent years in the remotest parts of that country, and is now a great artist and ...