Cinzia Gizzi

Cinzia Gizzi Trio: Soul Eyes

by Mark Corroto
December 1, 2001

It is easy to find fault with the jazz community’s tendency to be New York-centric when it come to discussion of talent. Too often the New York press and jazz labels have overlooked the thriving urban jazz communities of Chicago and San Francisco in their myopic approach to this music. I’d like to take this discussion a step further and focus much deserved attention on the Italian jazz scene and in particular pianist Cinzia Gizzi.

Trained at Boston’s Berklee School ...