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Paolo Fresu: When Musician Turns Poet
by Nathalie Tamara Freson
Paolo Fresua multidimensional artist whose creative overdrive has shaped the Italian jazz scene for almost forty years. With definite hints to Chet Baker and Miles Davis, Fresu has honed a particularly mellow, velvety sound which is absolutely compelling. Even when he tackles coarser, more upbeat tempos, he captivates his listeners with his original approach, switching between trumpet, muted trumpet and flugelhorn, and sometimes employing electronic effects. Indeed, using technology in a creative process, as Paolo Fresu occasionally does in live ...
read moreLarry Coryell & Philip Catherine: The Last Call
by Phillip Woolever
ACT Music released this exceptional concert recording four years to the day after the February 19, 2017 death of 73-year old master guitarist Larry Coryell. The album documents a sensational set Coryell played with the equally skillful Belgian guitarist Philip Catherine at the Berlin Philharmonic. The event was an unplanned but fitting conclusion to their series of collaborations that began at the same location some forty-five years before. The sound dynamics and song selections create a vivid testimonial of musical ...
read moreRoberto Cipelli & Paolo Fresu "l'Equilibrio di Nash" at Cremona Jazz Festival 2021
by Danilo Codazzi
Roberto Cipelli & Paolo Fresu al Parco Ca' Nova di Medicina
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
Roberto Cipelli e Paolo Fresu Parco Ca' Nova Crossroads Festival 2021 Medicina (BO) 26/06/2021 La prima delle tre apparizioni di Paolo Fresu alla ventiduesima edizione del Crossroads Festival, la manifestazione musicale che anche quest'anno attraversa tutta l'Emilia--Romagna con oltre 60 concerti di alto livello, va in scena al Parco Ca' Nova di Medicina, a pochi chilometri da Bologna, città in cui vive il trombettista sardo. Ad accompagnarlo (ma, come vedremo, non si tratta di accompagnamento, ...
read moreA Night at the Jazz Circus! - Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
One thing that Jazz and Circus have in common is thatunlike way too many things that we see in our daily livesyou can't fake them. You cannot pretend you're an expert among circus or jazz artists... If you are not ... it'll show! And this authenticity may be one of the reasons why they seem so precious in this age of disposable fakeness. Here we continue our exploration of the connections between jazz and circuls with a dolly ...
read morePaolo Fresu: il canto dell'anima
by Paolo Marra
Pubblichiamo una versione aggiornata dell'intervista al trombettista Paolo Fresu con l'aggiunta di alcune domande riguardanti la petizione Velesuoniamo," indirizzata al Governo Italiano e alla Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, di cui è promotore insieme a Ada Montellanico, Simone Graziano e a tutto il mondo del jazz italiano. Il suono della tromba di Paolo Fresu unisce la liricità malinconica di Miles Davis con il phatos inebriante della musica mediterranea, regalandoci momenti di pura poesia jazzistica. L'attenzione per la ...
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