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Big Band Italia: Blue Sun

Read "Blue Sun" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Big Band Italia's “Blue Sun" is intriguing listening. Saxophonist/co-leader Gianni Bardaro's tune could best be described as a modernised Oliver Nelson track exploding on steroids. Bruno Luise's arrangement is complex and challenging in terms of time signature and textures and it is performed superbly by this cadre of Italy's foremost jazz musicians--with guest artists trumpeter Randy Brecker and guitarist Ciro Manna lending fine solos. The tune's melody moves in sophisticated, angular intervals and dominating triplet figures. The ...

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Andrea Tofanelli & The Trumpet Show Band: Vulcano

Read "Vulcano" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


In the Tyrrhenian Sea, just north of Sicily sits the tiny island of Vulcano, the mythological chimney of the Roman god of fire, Vulcan. While Italian trumpeter, Andrea Tofanelli may or may not be paying pay tribute to Vulcan or his eponymous isle, with Vulcano he's gathered some of Italy's top players to deliver 10 explosive tracks of screaming trumpet, killer ensemble, and A-1 solo playing. “Adagio," taken from the Luis Bacalov-composed and the New Trolls-performed “Concerto Grosso," ...

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Enrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor

Read "Rava on the Dance Floor" reviewed by John Kelman


Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson? Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava doing a tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, on ECM? If either of these concepts seem somehow wrong, it's likely because, in forty-plus years, ECM has garnered (beyond its reputation as one of the most important labels in the history of music) its share of magical (and incorrect) thinking. Rava, it turns, out, hadn't paid much attention to ...

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Enrico Rava: Rava on the Dance Floor

Read "Rava on the Dance Floor" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Se si esclude la celebre “Thriller" dall'omonimo album, il più venduto nella storia della musica, Rava on the Dance Floor (registrato dal vivo all'Auditorium Parco della Musica) pesca nel repertorio minore di Michael Jackson, uno sguardo gettato sul periodo meno sfavillante della pop star, quando qualche critico arricciava il naso e più di un fan rimpiangeva gli antichi splendori. Scelta interessante, intrigante e carica di aspettative quella effettuata dal trombettista torinese, per la possibilità di far emergere alcuni aspetti meno ...

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Andrea Tofanelli: Flamingo

Read "Flamingo" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Richiesto in America per stage e concerti, presente da anni in tutte le principali trasmissioni televisive, voluto da Bruno Tommaso a Barga Jazz come Prima Tromba e da Massimo Nunzi nei suoi progetti dedicati a Stan Kenton e Maynard Ferguson. Ecco alcune tracce che possono dar conto del ruolo di Andrea Tofanelli nella comunità trombettistica italiana, all'interno della quale è apprezzato per la sua maestria nel registro sovracuto e il suo impegno didattico. Con Flamingo giunge al terzo CD, dopo ...

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Andrea Tofanelli: Flamingo

Read "Flamingo" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Back in 1974, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit brazenly high-wire walked across the span of New York's Twin Towers. He electrified the pre-internet, pre-YouTube world by spanning the buildings on a ¾" wire cable eight times; a feat of incredible skill, athleticism and bravery later detailed in his book, To Reach the Clouds (North Point Press, 2002). With Flamingo Italian trumpeter Andrea Tofanelli magnificently performs his own incredible high-wire, high-note performance with similar bravado and trumpeting brilliance.

Tofanelli has ...


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