Jazz Articles about Richard Galliano

Ron Carter: An Evening With Ron Carter, Richard Galliano (Live At The Theaterstübchen, Kassel)

by Richard J Salvucci
October 28, 2023

The odds are that most readers are not intimately familiar with jazz accordion. Undoubtedly, that is because there are not very many of them; someone might list Art Van Damme, Tommy Gumina, Angelo di Pippo, and Mat Mathews, none of them a household name. The Franco-Italian Richard Galliano should probably hold contemporary pride of place among accordionists, although even he, remarkable a player that he is, will not move the needle much. That is not a good thing.Galliano ...

Christian Howes & Richard Galliano: Southern Exposure

by Howard Mandel
July 27, 2023

Christian Howes wants you to know that Southern Exposure is not simply another violin and accordion record, some light-hearted evocation of Parisian café music. “It's deeper than that," Howes, the 40-year-old violinist who is also an educator and online entrepreneur, says of his 13th album (counting self-produced projects from the 1990s). “I think there's a lot of passion on the record. There's a sort of tragic feel to some of it. “It's distinguished by the fact ...

Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren: The Windmills of Your Mind

by Michael Ricci
March 12, 2023

Richard Galliano: New Jazz Musette

by Neri Pollastri
May 9, 2017

Certo spiace un po' vedere un musicista come Richard Galliano ripresentare, disco dopo disco, quella che è stata la propria luminosa e brillante carriera senza aggiungere a essa neppure una virgola di nuovo e originale. Succede ormai da qualche tempo e in questo ultimo, doppio CD, succede in modo particolarmente vistoso. Il fisarmonicista si presenta alla testa di un quartetto eccellente, ritmica con il fido André Ceccarelli alla batteria e Philippe Aerts al contrabbasso, più la chitarra di ...

Richard Galliano: Sentimentale

by Neri Pollastri
May 21, 2015

Disco “quasi" di jazz per un Richard Galliano passato dalla musette al tango, da Ron Carter a Michel Portal, da Bach alla canzone d'autore, da Wynton Marsalis al trio con Larry Grenadier e Clarence Penn. Ma che qui, assieme ad altri due strumenti armonici--il pianoforte di Tamir Hendelman e la chitarra di Anthony Wilson, peraltro entrambi come lui avvezzi a suonare assieme a cantanti--si sposta sul versante melodico del jazz e ne offre una lettura appropriata alla sua sensibilità.

Richard Galliano: Sentimentale

by Hrayr Attarian
December 16, 2014

Accordionist Richard Galliano is a true innovator of both the extemporized role of his instrument and of the fusion of French folk music with jazz. His breathtaking instrumental facility combined with a creative ingenuity makes his oeuvre, particularly the series of superb albums on Dreyfus Jazz, uniquely satisfying. In view of this, his release on the non-for-profit Resonance Label, Sentimentale is a bit of a letdown. A couple of Galliano compositions, and a few jazz, Bossa Nova and ...

Richard Galliano: Tangaria

by Chris May
April 9, 2010

A little accordion can go a long way. Its sound is a knife edge away from a dolorous monotone, and stubbornly resists modulation. It is no accident that Argentinian tango, the style indelibly associated with the instrument, typically deals with loss and bad luck. Few accordionists are able to cast off this baggage, but Richard Galliano is one who can.

An inventive, virtuoso performer with solid jazz chops, Galliano is at home with a variety of atmospheres, including ...