Jazz Articles about Luigi Bonafede

About Luigi Bonafede

Album Review

Luigi Bonafede Quintet: To Advance

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 20, 2009

Sarà pure un progetto minuzioso e sinceramente congegnato, considerata la qualità artistica ed umana di Luigi Bonafede, musicista poco esposto in rapporto alla sua levatura. Eppure questo suo nuovo CD non pare assumere una forma compiuta ed originale. I partner sono puntuali e misurati, chiamati ad infondere ai brani una melodia cantabile, con tocco strumentale luminoso e netto. Bonafede si diverte ad alternarsi tra pianoforte e batteria, lasciando sovente spazio a Massimo Baldioli al sax e clarinetto ed Andrea Allione ...

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Album Review

Luigi Bonafede: Peace

by Martin Gladu
September 14, 2007

On a sunbathed, at low tide beach above a vast blue sky, fixed in motion, a kid kicks a soccer ball as others await, still in the background. The scene, which graces the cover of Luigi Bonafede's Peace, translates to perfection the duality between movement and stillness in the pianist's music.Here, pensive, rubato ballads are contrasted with upbeat tracks and facile chanters. Folksy melodies and swaying harmonies (with a propensity for the ad nauseam dual-polychords-over-the-same-pedal-note progression) converge into ...