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Francesca Gaza

Francesca Gaza (1995) is an Italian/German singer, composer and arranger with romanian roots currently living in Basel, Switzerland. She is enrolled in her master's degree in Composition, Performance and Production at the Jazzcampus Basel, mentored by Guillermo Klein, Lisette Spinnler, Jorge Rossy, Luciana Souza, Norma Winstone amongst others. As a bandleader, sidewoman and arranger she is working extensively in Jazz, Antique, Pop and Theater music and has released two albums under her name: “Lilac for People” (2019, Auand Records), “Still, Moving” - Cocoon (2017, Emme Records) and is currently working on her third one which will see her writing for a ten-people ensemble with baroque and jazz instruments. Her main projects include her octet “Lilac for People” with which she has toured Italy, Germany, France and Switzerland

Space Between

By CHASE KUESEL

Label: Ears And Eyes Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Floating; Falling; In Step; Circles (part 1); Circles (part 2); Axis (for GK); Senescence; Space Between; Saint B; Passing Lights.

Chase Kuesel: Space Between

By BRUCE LINDSAY

Drummer and composer Chase Kuesel is based in Brooklyn, but his debut release as leader, Space Between, arose from a year spent studying in Basel as part of a select group of young musicians funded through the Focusyear Artist Grant. It's an album that's notable for Kuesel's ambitious compositions--drawing on influences including Olivier Messiaen, Norma Winstone ...

Lilac for People

By FRANCESCA GAZA

Label: Auand Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Strange Poet; Almond Tree; Red Box; Teach To Sing; Lilac; I Get Along Without You Very Well; Purity; I Have Heard.

Genius Loci, Festival di Santa Croce a Firenze

By NERI POLLASTRI

Genius Loci Firenze Complesso Monumentale di Santa Croce 26-28.9.2019 Terza edizione della manifestazione multidisciplinare fiorentina che mira alla riscoperta e alla valorizzazione del complesso architettonico di Santa Croce, del quale stavolta erano utilizzati due chiostri e il cenacolo. Come gli altri anni il programma affiancava interventi artistici e contributi parlati (la ...

Paul Bley, Yazz Ahmed, Gianluigi Trovesi, Matthieu Michel and tons of great new releases

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

Accordion players, saxophonists, clarinet and trombone players as well as compelling singers are at the heart of this week's focus on new releases. Give a listen and then make sure to support the musicians and the labels that put out this amazing music so that the prolific jazz phase we live in can go on, and ...

Francesca Gaza e il Questionario di Proust

By PAOLO PEVIANI

Cantante, compositrice, polistrumentista, Francesca Gaza ha recentemente pubblicato il suo primo album da leader, intitolato Lilac for People (Auand Records). Il tratto principale della mia musica L'attenzione ai dettagli. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me La sensibilità e la consapevolezza.

Francesca Gaza: Lilac for People

By BRUCE LINDSAY

Lilac for People is the debut release from singer, composer and arranger Francesca Gaza, an artist currently based in Switzerland and Italy. Imaginative, beautiful and superbly performed, the album is inspired by the seasons and by the myth of Demetra and Persephone. There are two songs per season and, says Gaza, every story “is in my ...

Reinier Baas e Ben van Gelder alla Sala Vanni di Firenze

By NERI POLLASTRI

Reiner Baas e Ben van Gelder Musicus Concentus -A Jazz Supreme Sala Vanni Firenze 3.11.2017 Concerto in Sala Vanni per due giovani olandesi e promesse del jazz europeo, il chitarrista Reinier Baas e l'altosassofonista Ben Van Gelder, introdotti peraltro da tre brani originali di un ottetto nostrano composto da ...