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by Bruce Lindsay
Saxophonist Tommaso Starace is not a man to keep his influences hidden, nor does he simply take inspiration from the saxophone greats. The tunes on Plays The Music Of Elliott Erwitt (Frame, 2006) were inspired by a series of pictures from one great photographer; another, Robert Capa, inspired the title track of Blood And Champagne (Music Center Real, 2011). The gorgeous Simply Marvellous celebrates the life and work of another of Starace's favorites, the much-admired and loved pianist Michel Petrucciani ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Con un titolo piuttosto eloquente ed una foto di copertina “esplosiva" Tommaso Starace presenta il quarto album da leader, questa volta insieme ad una ritmica inglese di alto livello, caratterizzata dalla presenza dell'intringante basso elettrico di Laurence Cottle. Fra note veloci, come se fosse una chitarra, e un più ortodosso uso in funzione di accompagnamento, Cottle fa sì che l'album acquisti, pur nell'ambito di un modern maistream ormai di dominio comune, una sua nota originale. Starace firma quattro sue composizioni ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Somewhere in a parallel universe far, far away Tommaso Starace is fêted as one of the finest saxophonists in contemporary jazz. It's the only way to explain why Starace remains so underrated on this little world. Blood & Champagne, his fourth album, should bring Planet Earth into line. Starace has a distinctive, hard-edged, tone and a style that brings together elements of the bop and post-bop greats right back to Charlie Parker. He creates an intense and exciting sound with, ...
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by Nic Jones
Here's further evidence of the fact that there's a whole lot of mileage left in the modern mainstream. There's a slightly acidic quality to Tommaso Starace's alto sax, which serves among other things to set him at some distance from many of the more common influences. On the level of a player, then, this puts him in a good position, especially in view of the fact that his work on the soprano sax might be described as akin to a ...
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