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Francesco Orio Trio: OS

Read "OS" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


L'ennesimo disco di piano trio, la formula più usata e abusata nel mondo del jazz? La solita clonazione/rivisitazione delle classiche formazioni che hanno fatto la storia della musica afroamericana? Ascoltate OS del trio di Francesco Orio (trentaduenne cremonese, studi classici alle spalle, infatuazione per il jazz, premio internazionale Giorgio Gaslini, studi di elettronica e tecnologia del suono, laurea in biotecnologie, etc., etc.) e avrete modo di sbarazzarvi di dubbi e perplessità. Perchè OS è molto più di ...

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Chase Kuesel: Space Between

Read "Space Between" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Drummer and composer Chase Kuesel is based in Brooklyn, but his debut release as leader, Space Between, arose from a year spent studying in Basel as part of a select group of young musicians funded through the Focusyear Artist Grant. It's an album that's notable for Kuesel's ambitious compositions--drawing on influences including Olivier Messiaen, Norma Winstone and Guillermo Klein, to whom Kuesel dedicates “Axis (For GK)"--and for the stylish interpretations crafted by the drummer and his bandmates. Four ...

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Francesca Gaza e il Questionario di Proust

Read "Francesca Gaza e il Questionario di Proust" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Cantante, compositrice, polistrumentista, Francesca Gaza ha recentemente pubblicato il suo primo album da leader, intitolato Lilac for People (Auand Records). Il tratto principale della mia musica L'attenzione ai dettagli. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La sensibilità e la consapevolezza. Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Il primo concerto della mia vita da cantante all'età di quindici ...

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Francesca Gaza: Lilac for People

Read "Lilac for People" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Lilac for People is the debut release from singer, composer and arranger Francesca Gaza, an artist currently based in Switzerland and Italy. Imaginative, beautiful and superbly performed, the album is inspired by the seasons and by the myth of Demetra and Persephone. There are two songs per season and, says Gaza, every story “is in my mind connected to my imaginary garden that changes over the cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter." “Strange Poet" (one of the ...


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