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Antonio Ciacca: Rush Life

Read "Rush Life" reviewed by John Barron

by John Barron
October 8, 2008

Italian pianist Antonio Ciacca is the kind of musician who displays his influences without reservation. Steeped in the tradition of bebop and gospel piano, the New York resident is focused on swinging as hard as he can. Evidence of this can be heard on Rush Life, a hard-blowing quintet recording with tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter ...

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Ugly Beauty

By Antonio Ciacca

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. Miriam`s Doodles - 6:27; 02. Pannonica/Ugly Beauty - 7:06; 03. It Could Happen to You - 5:56; 04. My Lady - 4:28; 05. 29 J - 5:08; 06. English Rose - 5:48; 07. But Not for Me - 7:46; 08. Bouncing with Benny - 3:17

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Antonio Ciacca: Ugly Beauty

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 16, 2006

Un nuovo acquisto per la scuderia diretta da Flavio Bonandrini: si tratta del pianista Antonio Ciacca, qui in compagnia di una ritmica americana. La sua musica si orienta senza inibizioni ai grandi modelli del passato, da Monk a chi ne ha seguito le orme, come Barry Harris e Jaki Byard, maestri di Ciacca. Lo rivela subito ...

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Hollis Avenue

By Antonio Ciacca

Label: YVP Music
Released: 1999
Track listing: Gregory Is There; Ask Me Now; Eiji

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Antonio Ciacca: Hollis Avenue

Read "Hollis Avenue" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
December 1, 1999

Italian pianist Antonio Ciacca’s modern mainstream quartet session breathes dramatic fire and still contains the necessary dollop of lyrical charm. Thirty years old, favoring Thelonious Monk’s compositional spontaneity, and aware of the need for balance in one’s work, Ciacca leads two different quartets through several standards and a few originals. Young lions all, the artists dish ...