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Giancarlo Velliscig - Direttore Artistico di Udin&Jazz

Read "Giancarlo Velliscig - Direttore Artistico di Udin&Jazz" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Un passato di cantante nell'ambito della musica popolare, etnica e di ricerca (che oggi torna a frequentare in rare ma sentite occasioni), un presente di padre che segue con emozione i progressi dei propri eredi (il figlio Alessio è da poco il nuovo cantante di Quintorigo), Giancarlo Velliscig è il direttore di Euritmica, associazione culturale udinese che organizza tra gli altri Udin&Jazz, di cui è ideatore e direttore artistico. All About Jazz: Udin&Jazz raggiunge quest'anno la ventisettesima edizione, ...

Album Review

Michel Petrucciani: The OWL Years

Read "The OWL Years" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo


Magistero tecnico, swing, cuore palpitante sono i tratti caratteristici di questo cofanetto, che di Michel Petrucciani)) mette a nudo le pieghe espressive più recondite. C'è il mondo evansiano sostenuto dalla cantabilità mediterranea, per proiettare la tradizione jazzistica lungo i sentieri di una magniloquente fantasia esecutiva. Svetta l'incedere lirico e trasognato di un artista inimitabile, che appartiene alla ristretta schiera di jazzisti per i quali la musica è sinonimo di poesia. Un genio del proprio strumento, che affronta con souplesse esecutiva ...

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Album Review

Michel Petrucciani - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen: Petrucciani NHOP 10th Anniversary

Read "Petrucciani NHOP 10th Anniversary" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Di Michel Petrucciani, scomparso prematuramente nel 1999, se ne parla ormai poco o nulla. La pubblicazione di questo doppio disco è l'occasione giusta per ricordarne l'immenso talento, fatto di poesia, lirismo, incisività ritmica. Una stella del firmamento jazzistico europeo, che nelle incisioni francesi ha lasciato forse il più significativo testamento musicale. Un gigante del pianismo jazz, in grado di rivaleggiare - insieme a Solal - con i colleghi d'oltreoceano. Ha fatto benissimo la Dreyfus a tirar fuori dagli archivi una ...

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Film Review

Non-Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani/Trio Live in Stuttgart

Read "Non-Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani/Trio Live in Stuttgart" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Michel Petrucciani Non-Stop Travels/Trio Live in Stuttgart Dreyfus Records 2008

Michel Petrucciani celebrated life. It was a short one (he died when he was 36 of a pulmonary infection), but he lived it to the brim. Jazz was his passion, which he shared through his numerous recordings and concerts. He also had a sense of humor that could be zany and irreverent.

Petrucciani is the focus of the documentary Non-Stop ...

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Michel Petrucciani: Non Stop Travels / Trio Live in Stuttgart

Read "Michel Petrucciani: Non Stop Travels / Trio Live in Stuttgart" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Michel Petrucciani Non Stop Travels/Trio Live in Stuttgart Dreyfus Records 2008 The phenomenon that was pianist Michel Petrucciani (b. December 28th, 1962, d. January 6th, 1999) is brought to life by this double-feature DVD from Dreyfus Records. Containing the hour-long documentary (Non-Stop Travels With Michel Petrucciani) that aired on many PBS television stations and a concert performance (Michel Petrucciani Trio: Live In Concert) in Germany, this wonderful DVD brings clarity to ...

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Album Review

Michel Petrucciani: So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani

Read "So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani" reviewed by Jim Santella


Michel Petrucciani left his mark on straight-ahead jazz. This compilation from previous albums demonstrates clearly that the pianist was in command when he explored the realm, both as a gentle balladeer and as a swinging musician who worked hard at his craft and connected well with a great number of like-minded artists in the jazz community.

The albums represented on this compilation were recorded between 1992 and ’98. It was in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, ...

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Michel Petrucciani: So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani

Read "So What: The Best of Michel Petrucciani" reviewed by Aaron Rogers


Bill Evans wrote in the liner notes for his Grammy Award-winning album Alone that “to understand music most profoundly one only has to be listening well." If you listen to an Evans album and follow it with So What, you will understand well that Evans' music lived in the small but profound hands of Michel Petrucciani.

So What is a recorded odyssey of Petrucciani's work on Dreyfus Jazz; a compilation that shows a well-seasoned jazz pianist playing beautifully in the ...


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