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Riccardo Arrighini: Cambio di Marcia
by Thomas Conrad
The first time I heard Riccardo Arrighini was at the Umbria Jazz Melbourne festival in Australia in May of 2005. It seems odd, as I look back on it, that I barely noticed him at the festival. The explanation is not that there were other, more famous Italian piano players there, like Stefano Bollani and Danilo Rea. The explanation must be that Arrighini appeared as a member of Francesco Cafiso's quartet. He only got to solo after Cafiso (15 at ...
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by Luigi Sforza
Per molti jazzisti italiani formatisi nei Conservatori interagire con la tradizione “colta" europea è inevitabile, se non addirittura esteticamente determinante. Così è per quanto concerne la musica del Riccardo Arrighini, che ha saputo disciogliere in Like Children on a Wide Lawn tracce umorali di pianismo classico nel denso mare del jazz. Se si escludono due noti standars ("Somewhere Over the Rainbow" e “All the Things You Are") e “Sincerità" di Riccardo Cocciante, le restanti cinque tracce dell'album ...
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Riccardo Arrighini
Instrument: Piano
Born: August 28, 1967
