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Yuri Storione: Where Do We Start
by Tyran Grillo
Yuri Storione follows 2017's formidable trio outing, Schönbrunn, with this set of gorgeous new originals. In collaboration with Spanish saxophonist Perico Sambeat, Swiss bassist Stephan Kurmann, and Hungarian drummer Marton Juhasz, the Basel-based pianist guides his new quartet, convened in 2018, for this live recording debut. As a leap of intuition not only in technical but also compositional terms, Where Do We Start is both a deepening and a widening of the bandleader's sonic footprint. Where throughout this ...
read moreYuri Storione: Schönbrunn
by Tyran Grillo
When the title track of Schönbrunn, Basel-based pianist Yuri Storione's leader debut, awakens the ears, it's clear that a forest of future talent has already sprouted a few robust trees. One of three originals peppered throughout the set, it opens the album in repose, treading softly yet surely, and with a depth of calculation rarely seen in one so young. Storione has a muscular yet fluid touch, at which the keyboard goes boneless. Bassist Zhu Haiming, in addition to adding ...
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