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Article: From the Inside Out

Riding Waves, Moving Boundaries, and Building The Wall

Read "Riding Waves, Moving Boundaries, and Building The Wall" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Franco Ambrosetti Quintet Long Waves Unit Records 2019 Trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti balances in the middle of three jazz generations, the father of saxophonist Gianluca and son of saxophonist Flavio, who once played opposite Charlie Parker at the Paris Jazz Festival. Although he grew up studying classical ...

Article: Interview

Intervista a Franco Ambrosetti

Read "Intervista a Franco Ambrosetti" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il 2019 è stato un anno significativo per il trombettista svizzero Franco Ambrosetti. In aprile è stato pubblicato il suo libro autobiografico “La scelta di non scegliere" mentre da poche settimane è uscito Long Waves, il suo ventottesimo disco da leader con un cast stellare comprendente John Scofield, Uri Caine, Scott Colley e Jack DeJohnette.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Junius Paul, Piero Bittolo Bon, Avishai Cohen & Other New Releases

Read "Junius Paul, Piero Bittolo Bon, Avishai Cohen & Other New Releases" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


In the second part of this week's episode we continue our exploration of new and upcoming releases with two smash albums, a stunner from Piero Bittolo Bon's Bread and Fox and the debut album by Chicago bassist Junius Paul. During the rest of the show we feature Nat Birchall's tribute to Yusef Lateef and music ranging ...

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Article: Album Review

Franco Ambrosetti Quintet: Long Waves

Read "Long Waves" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Veteran Swiss jazz trumpeter/flugelhornist/composer Franco Ambrosetti leads what amounts to a blowing session: mostly his originals, plus a couple of standards. But what a band it is. In bebop's heyday the group likely would have been billed as “All Stars." Guitarist John Scofield, pianist Uri Caine, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Jack DeJohnette have an illustrious ...

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Article: Album Review

Franco Ambrosetti: Long Waves

Read "Long Waves" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti is a master of both glow and go aesthetics. With a warm and burnished tone, lines giving off circumfluent suggestions in their whorling beauty, an eye on motion and expansion, and a strong sense of swing, he's content to take the fast lane or simply take his time. And with more than 50 ...

Article: Album Review

Franco Ambrosetti: The Nearness Of You

Read "The Nearness Of You" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Il pregio di quest'album risiede nella ricercatezza dei suoi percorsi melodici, esaltati dal lirico flicorno di Franco Ambrosetti e dalle raffinate orchestrazioni di Massimo Nunzi e Gianni Ferrio. Il riferimento implicito è l'opera di Miles Davis con Gil Evans ma la cosa non sminuisce il fascino del lavoro che avvolge l'ascoltatore con la fragranza dei timbri ...

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Cheers

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; No SIlia No Party; I'm Glad There Is You; Bye Bye Blackbird; Drums Corrida; Someday My Prince Will Come; The Smart Went Crazy; Midnight Voyage; Body And Soul.

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Article: Album Review

Franco Ambrosetti: Cheers

Read "Cheers" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Milestone birthdays deserve major events. And so we have Franco Ambrosetti's Cheers, a star-studded seventy-fifth birthday celebration that's both a walk down memory lane with friends and a stroll over different terrain for the man of the moment. In January of 2017, just over a month after Ambrosetti's actual birthday, the septuagenarian starring ...

Album

Cheers

Label: Enja Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Autumn Leaves; No Silia, No Party; I'm Glad There Is You; Bye Bye Blackbird; Drums Corrida; Someday My Prince Will Come; The Smart Went Crazy; Midnight Voyage; Body And Soul;

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Article: Interview

Helga Plankensteiner e Miki Loesch – Direttori Artistici di Lana Meets Jazz

Read "Helga Plankensteiner e Miki Loesch – Direttori Artistici di Lana Meets Jazz" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Giunto alla sua sesta edizione, Lana Meets Jazz è un festival che si svolge nella prima settimana di maggio a Lana, in provincia di Bolzano. Tratto caratterizzante e significativo della manifestazione è la presenza degli allievi della locale scuola di musica, che troviamo non solo seduti tra il pubblico (e già questa ...


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