Marco Conti

Alessandro Carabelli Group: Over and Out

by Eric J. Iannelli
November 10, 2004

Going by its title alone, Over and Out sounds as if it's aiming to be a definitive farewell to something--traditionalism, perhaps, in these avant--and post-everything days of ours--but in actuality this is a polite, mild-mannered affair, the kind you can bring home to your parents and not worry about any crazy outbursts spoiling the otherwise routine dinner conversation.While pleasant, the disc suffers from this restraint at times. Saxophonist Diego Mascherpa and guitarist Luciano Zadro never quite match pianist ...