Francesco Tristano

Murcof and Francesco Tristano - London Jazz Festival

Source: The Ring Modulator by Adrian Stevenson
November 22, 2010

Murcof and Francesco Tristano—London Jazz Festival, Queen Eliizabeth Hall, Southbank, London. 16th November 2010 There was promise here for sure. The combination of Fernando Corona aka Murcof's minimalist electronica grace and the idiosynkrasia of 'not'-pianist Francesco Tristano ought to have delivered something special, but I'm not sure it did. Things started promisingly enough with Tristano scattering some deeply reverberated quizzical piano notes. Murcof then faded in a deep bass thrum overlaid with a thin shade of white noise. And, ... ...
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