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Album Review

Enrico Pieranunzi: From Always to Now

Read "From Always to Now" reviewed by Paolo Marra


Forty-one years after its original release on a little known but quite active independent label from the '70s, Edi Pan, Alfa Music has recently reissued From Always to Now, one the most important records by pianist and composer Enrico Pieranunzi. From Always to Now represents the high point in the pianist's hard-bop phase, during which Pieranunzi's impetuous style was heavily influenced by McCoy Tyner. Shortly afterwards, inspired by his collaboration with Chet Baker, Pieranunzi would embrace the more meditative and ...

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Album Review

Jimbo Tribe: Rite of Passage

Read "Rite of Passage" reviewed by Don Phipps


There is much to like about the Italian group Jimbo Tribe's album Rite Of Passage. The trio of pianist Lewis Saccocci, bassist Dario Piccioni, and drummer Nicolò Di Caro are joined by guest trumpeter Anotello Sorrentino, and the quartet offers up imaginative twist after turn. The compositions are engaging and exciting. Changes are planned but feel spontaneously executed. The melodies are--in a word--beautiful. It is as if one were standing alone in the Ufizzi Gallery, lost in the reverie of ...

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Raffaele Califano: Horizontal Dialogues

Read "Horizontal Dialogues" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


There is much to gush about on Horizontal Dialogues, Rome-based drummer /composer Raffaele Califano's second disc as a leader. From the playfully earthy and resonant 7/4 opener “A Beetle Romantic" through to the looping fusion of “Onin" and “Out of the Loop" Califano's sense of conversation, between instruments, between players, between players and listeners, holds forth. Ably abetted by pianist Antonio Magli, who moves from piano to keyboards without a hitch and double bassist Francesco Pierotti, who one ...

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Album Review

Pericopes + 1: These Human Beings

Read "These Human Beings" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Having captured the favorable attention of saxophonist Dave Liebman and fellow Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava, Pericopes + 1 enters the American market with These Human Beings with the “+1" representing the addition of New York based drummer Nick Wight. The varied program, musical interactions and progressive thinking behind it are likely to generate interest on this side of the Atlantic. In 2013, saxophonist Emillano Vernizzi, a Professor of jazz saxophone at the Conservatory of Music of Parma, Italy ...

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Album Review

Carol Sudhalter: The Octave Tunes

Read "The Octave Tunes" reviewed by Donald Elfman


The notes to this thoughtful and beautifully executed disc suggest this is the first collection in which the tunes share the trait of all starting with an octave interval. True, perhaps, but what sets it apart is smart music passionately and intelligently played by musicians committed to the fine art of communication. Carol Sudhalter is a talented multi-reed instrumentalist and her work on tenor, baritone and flute is of a piece--keen on melody, finely proportioned and always ...

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Carol Sudhalter: The Octave Tunes

Read "The Octave Tunes" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The title of this album, according to leader/woodwind specialist Carol Sudhalter, refers to the fact that each of its thirteen tunes begins on the interval of an octave. Ten of The Octave Tunes' songs are standards, including a pair of holiday favorites, “Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" and “The Christmas Song." Of the three originals, two were written by Sudhalter's guests, organist Vito Di Modugno ("Pancake Blues") and precocious teen-age pianist Carlo Barile ("Cheeseburger Blue"), who accompanies Sudhalter on ...

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Carol Sudhalter: Shades of Carol

Read "Shades of Carol" reviewed by Andrew Velez


This beautifully orchestrated set showcases Carol Sudhalter, who plays saxophones and flute, in a compilation of four sessions with different musical groupings. It gets off to a jumping, upbeat start with Cedar Walton's “Firm Roots, immediately showing off her roots firmly in happy, mainstream swing, Andrea Torozzi's piano providing exhilarating company for the warm tenor sax. What follows is a rarely heard beauty, Victor Young's “A Weaver of Dreams, on which Vittorio Sicbaldi's drums provide just the ...


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