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Fernando Ferrarone: Beautifully Different

by Jack Bowers
October 12, 2026

It is one thing to be a multi-instrumentalist; it is quite another to play two or more instruments so remarkably well that heads start to turn and listeners ask, “Who was that?“ Florida-based Fernando Ferrarone is in the latter class. He plays electrifying alto saxophone on the first and last tracks of Beautifully Different, impeccable trumpet on everything in between. And Ferrarone does so while leading a quintet that consists of American pianist Russell Kranes and three sidemen ...