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Franco D'Andrea: Today
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un album in solo rappresenta sempre, per un musicista, qualcosa di speciale. Quando poi tale musicista è serio, integro, come Franco D'Andrea, allora l'album in solo assume una valenza ancora superiore. Perchè Today è il frutto di un lavoro di ricerca e preparazione, durato oltre un anno, sfociato infine in una seduta di registrazione che ha ...
Taking stock, a year half over
by Mark Corroto
This month, at the halfway point in the year of music, we are taking stock, and there have been so many great discs released. Here is my list (in no particular order) of the best albums so far. I predict many of these will make final top ten 2013 lists. Sorry, I couldn't keep my list ...
Umbria Jazz Winter: Orvieto, Italy, December 28, 2012 - January 1, 2013
by Sara Villa
Umbria Jazz Winter 2013Orvieto, ItalyDecember 28, 2012--February 1, 2013Dee Alexander's Evolution Ensemble Dee Alexander's sensitive and virtuosic voice, together with the exquisite harmony of her group, charmed the Umbria Jazz Winter public with two different concert series. The first was dedicated to the memory of Alexander's mentor, Light Henry Huff, and ...
Franco D'Andrea: Traditions And Clusters
by Mark Corroto
It is a satisfying musical experience when a performance can deliver traditional jazz without the music being reduced to orthodoxy. Such is the resonance of Franco D'Andrea's sound.The seventy-something Italian pianist follows Soprais (El Gallo Rojo, 2011), with his long-established quartet, by adding the early jazz instruments of clarinet and trombone, played respectively by ...
Franco D'Andrea Three
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pinocchio Live Jazz - Firenze - 04.01.2012 In una serata freddissima che penalizza l'affluenza del pubblico, di scena sul palco del Pinocchio di Firenze una delle due formazioni stabili con le quali il pianista Franco D'Andrea porta avanti la sua ricerca musicale, tutt'altro che frenato dai settant'anni compiuti lo scorso anno: il trio con i fiati ...
Franco D'Andrea: Traditions and Clusters
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sorta di celebrazione per i suoi settant'anni (clicca qui per leggere l'intervista che gli abbiamo fatto per l'occasione), questo doppio CD di Franco D'Andrea vede il pianista trentino dal vivo, alle prese con entrambe le principali formazioni con le quali si mette incessantemente alla prova negli ultimi tempi: il trio atipico con i fiati di Ottolini ...
Enrico Rava: To Be Free or Not To Be Free
by Ian Patterson
Freedom, it could be argued, is most deeply understood by those who have been somehow constrained against their will, or who have been prisoners of their own skewed vision of what it means to be free. Trumpeter Enrico Rava knows the meaning of musical freedom; he was part of the free-jazz scene of the 1960s and ...
Achille Succi: Nuances and Articulations
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Born ...
Saxophonist Achille Succi Interviewed at All About Jazz!
Saxophonist and bass clarinetist Achille Succi has recently been singled out as “one of the European musicians to keep an eye on in the next ten years" by (Bill Schoemaker in Giornale Della Musica (January 2010), while journalist Mario Gamba defines him as a “genius of Italian Jazz" in Alias (March 20th, 2010). Among the many ...
Testimoni del '68: Franco D'Andrea
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il Sessantotto, per come io l'ho vissuto, è stato un ambiente culturale aperto a ogni tipo di esperimento e di innovazione. Nel jazz questo era venuto fuori già alla metà degli anni '60 (ma Ornette Coleman faceva già cose nuove alla fine dei '50). La parabola di Coltrane, a metà degli anni '60, si era incrociata ...
