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Patrizia Scascitelli: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins
January 9, 2005

There are times when it seems jazz is hated in America, where it originated. Outside the United States, however, jazz is appreciated as much as folk, classical and other styles. Perhaps this may explain why some Europeans are among the world's best jazz performers.One of these is Rome native Patrizia Scascitelli, one of the ...

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Close Up

By Jim Snidero

Label: Telarc
Released: 2004
Track listing: Close Up*/ I Should Care/ Nippon Blue*/ Windswept/ Blues For the Moment*/ Reality*/ Prisoner of Love/ Smash*.

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Jim Snidero: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
November 25, 2004

Prose laureate Whitney Balliett coined the phrase “the sound of surprise" as an encomium for jazz. Like most of his peers, saxophonist Jim Snidero shoots regularly for this ideal. His new Milestone effort flirts with the target but doesn't quite hit the bull's-eye. An accessible program of original tunes shored up by two standards, each cogently ...

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