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Carla Marciano

Carla Marciano is an Italian saxophonist and composer from Salerno considered by specialized critics among the best talents of European jazz. She is an alto saxophone specialist, appreciated for her great passion and energy, her strong expressiveness, her advanced tecnique as well as her distinctive performative and compositional streak. She is also one of the leading experts of the rarely used and hard to master sopranino saxophone. She has performed her music projects, with her quartet, around the world at a lot of prestigious international jazz festivals, theaters and clubs as well as at most of the major Italian jazz festivals and clubs and she has under her belt some tours in America and in Russia

Thomas Chapin, Lara Solnicki, Vijay Iyer and More

by Jerome Wilson
August 31, 2022

From April 2021, this show features a lot of lesser-heard musicians such as Lara Solnicki, Rodrigo Faina, Juhani Aaltonen, and the late Thomas Chapin. There are also more familiar names in the mix such as Paul Motian, Vijay Iyer, and Tom Harrell. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from ...

Jazz Women From All Over The World

by Jerome Wilson
June 24, 2022

This program features female jazz musicians from foreign countries such as Satoko Fujii, Hedvig Mollestad, and Nelly Pouget as well as Americans like Catherine Russell, Maria Schneider and Jamie Baum. The opening seconds of the introduction are cut off on this show but all the music is intact. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't ...

Carla Marciano: Psychosis - Homage to Bernard Herrmann

by Jerome Wilson
April 17, 2021

On this CD Italian saxophonist Carla Marciano pays tribute to a lifelong influence, the music of film soundtrack composer Bernard Hermann. Hermann wrote a lot of significant scores in his time but Marciano concentrates on his music for thrillers. She mostly deals with his scores for Alfred Hitchcock, but also tackles his music for Martin Scorsese's ...

Carla Marciano: Psychosis - Homage to Bernard Herrmann

by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2020

Of all the music that might enchant the ears of a child, the dark and often foreboding themes designed by film composer Bernard Herrmann would seem to be at the far end of the line. Nevertheless, as a young girl in Salerno, Italy, that is the music which saxophonist Carla Marciano says “dazzled" her senses, as ...

Antoine Berjeaut, Jeff Parker, Rita Marcotulli and More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 4, 2020

Mondo Jazz's final stash of new releases of 2019 is the perfect way to end a year that has been generous and full of surprises. During this first hour we'll sample the music of many 'bands without borders' as well as tributes to Mose Allison, Dewey Redman and Bernard Herrmann. Happy listening!

Carla Marciano: Tensione, melodia e improvvisazione

by Paolo Marra
January 27, 2020

La libera improvvisazione, aspetto fondamentale della dialettica jazz, ispirata da colonne sonore di film entrati nella storia della cinematografia moderna ormai patrimonio della memoria collettiva. Così potremmo sintetizzare l'ultimo lavoro discografico della sassofonista Carla Marciano, tra le più apprezzate a livello internazionale, dal titolo Psychosis. L'album rappresenta un personale omaggio al direttore d'orchestra statunitense Bernard Herrmann ...

Psychosis - Homage to Bernard Herrmann

By Carla Marciano

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: HOMAGE TO BERNARD HERRMANN: Theme from "Taxi Driver" (Betsy's Theme); Theme from "Marnie (Prelude); From "Marnie" to "Twisted Nerve"; Theme from "Twisted Nerve" (Theme and Variations); Theme from "Psycho" (Prelude); Theme from "Vertigo" (Prelude); Theme from "Vertigo" (Scene D'Amour); . HOMAGE TO JOHN WILLIAMS - Theme from "Harry Potter" (Hedwig's Theme). .

Carla Marciano Quartet: Psychosis - Homage to Bernard Herrmann

by Angelo Leonardi
December 16, 2019

Quest'omaggio a Bernard Herrmann si erge oltre la media delle produzioni italiane e internazionali per la sincera e personale adesione di Carla Marciano all'autore di evocative colonne sonore: i classici di Alfred Hitchock (Marnie, Psycho, Vertigo), Brian De Palma (Obsession/Complesso di colpa) o Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver). Un disco così coinvolgente e appassionante ...

Céline Bonacina, Keith Jarrett, Carla Marciano and More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 3, 2019

Another week repleate with deliciuos new releases, from those of European jazz queens Céline Bonacina, Yazz Ahmed and Carla Marciano, to the Pan-African manifesto of Russell Gunn's Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra, to the collaborative trios of Ben Perowsky—-John Medeski—Chris Speed, Zach Brock—Matt Ulery—Jon Deitemyer, and Alban Darche—Matthieu Donarier—Meivelyan Jacquot, not to mention the latest by Keith ...