Furio Di Castri

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Di Castri, Cisi and Zirilli 'More for Joe' at Milestone in Piacenza

by Danilo Codazzi
February 9, 2024

A collection of photos from the Di Castri, Cisi, Zirilli “More for Joe," concert at Milestone in Piacenza on January 28, 2024 featuring Furio Di Castri, Emanuele Cisi, and Enzo Zirilli. ...

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Furio di Castri Quintet's Furious Mingus Revisited at Comunale Theatre Casalmaggiore

by Danilo Codazzi
January 2, 2023

A collection of photos from the Furio Di Castri Quintet 's Furious Mingus Revisited concert at Comunale Theatre in Casalmaggiore on December 16, 2022 featuring Furio Di Castri, Giovanni Falzone, Achille Succi, Fabio Giachino, and Mattia Barbieri. ...

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Album Review

Kenny Wheeler: All the More

Read "All the More" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

Kenny Wheeler's gorgeous trumpet anchors these tracks, but also attracting attention here is the understated beauty and subtle adventurousness of John Taylor's piano. With that kind of combination in his playing, Taylor is a perfect match for Wheeler, who has straddled a few divides in his time. Much of this disc features the ethereal ECM-ish music Wheeler has made his trademark, but some of it harks back to Wheeler's earlier days as a pillar of the English “free music" scene ...

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Album Review

Paul Bley: Chaos

Read "Chaos" reviewed by Larry Koenigsberg

by Larry Koenigsberg
January 1, 1999

There's a fashion on many contemporary jazz recordings, in which the players are variously combined for each track: all on some tracks, just a few on others, perhaps just one or two on the rest, and no grouping the same. While Chaos follows this formula, the results have a consistency which is often lacking in straight-ahead releases thus assembled. The explorations of Bley, Di Castri and Oxley are so strong on their solo tracks that when they play together, they ...

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Paul Bley: Chaos

by Glenn Astarita
October 1, 1998

Chaos is a new collaborative effort from experimentalists Paul Bley (p), Furio Di Castri (b) and drummer Tony Oxley. What we have here is a series of duets, solos and trio settings.The Bley composition “Poetic Justice” typifies some of the trio’s introspective pieces which generally reside within the free jazz realm. Bley provides the melodic interludes while Oxley and Di Castri explore various rhythmic structures. Oxley’s inventions on the kit are legendary. His arsenal of odd sounding percussion ...