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Maria Kruttli: The Kind of Happy One

Read "The Kind of Happy One" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Quinto album per la pianista svizzera Marie Kruttli, trent'anni e una formazione classica iniziata da bambina, sviluppatasi poi nel mondo del jazz. Qui la troviamo alla testa di un trio, formazione che le è congeniale essendo questo il suo terzo disco, come negli altri affiancata dal contrabbassista Lukas Traxel, ma con alla batteria Jonathan Barber, che con la pianista aveva collaborato in altri contesti ma non in trio. Le composizioni sono tutte originali a firma della Kruttli, che ...

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Marie Kruttli Trio: The Kind of Happy One

Read "The Kind of Happy One" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


A gracious yet adventurous air of then and now hovers over, under, sideways, and down on The Kind of Happy One, Swiss pianist/composer Marie Kruttli's fourth disc. It's an expanding calm, a welcoming sense of command and form from a young artist finding her place in the music and its long heritage. Yet “Back to Blue" starts off The Kind of Happy One with bassist Lukas Traxel's sinister, recurring riff into which rising-through-the-generational-ranks drummer Jonathan Barber quickly breathes ...


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