William Gagliardi Quintet

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William Gagliardi Quintet: Hear and Now

by Derek Taylor
May 7, 2004

Just like most of his peers, Bill Gagliardi is building a discography brick by inexorable brick. He breaks ranks from their number with the realization that his activity in the studio has only born commercially released fruit in the past few years. Why the late ingress to the scene? Reasons are vague, but seem to stem from Gagliardi's ambivalent attitude toward the custom. For him performing and creating in the absence of microphones isn’t necessarily preferential, it’s more a case ...