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The Shape of Italian Jazz to Come? Giacomo Merega

Read "The Shape of Italian Jazz to Come? Giacomo Merega" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il bassista di origine genovese Giacomo Merega si sposta quotidianamente in treno a New York City - tra Brooklyn, Manhattan e il Queens - e, parallelamente, fa viaggiare le sue idee musicali attraverso un approccio fantasioso e improvvisato lontano dai manierismi. Si sta mettendo in evidenza nel panorama jazzistico della Grande Mela grazie a diverse buone ...

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The Light and Other Things

Label: Creative Nation Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Once Emerged in the Grey of Night; Amateur Drummer; Destruction and Hope; Red Balloon; Figire in the Garden; With theGreen Rectangle; Rhythmic Landscape with Trees; Light Drum Roll; Drawing with the Fermata; Chorale and Landscape.

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Giacomo Merega: The Light and Other Things

Read "The Light and Other Things" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il giovane bassista genovese Giacomo Merega mette assieme un trio da sogno e ne approfitta per incidere un lavoro pieno di promesse mantenute che ci fa davvero ben sperare per l’emergere di una scena creativa di livello internazionale anche nel nostro paese, anche se il fatto che Giacomo abbia scelto di trasferirsi negli Stati Uniti per ...

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Giacomo Merega / David Tronzo / Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things

Read "The Light and Other Things" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio


This is an impressive record composed of ten improvised tracks whose titles are inspired by the work of Paul Klee. Klee, a Swiss cubist painter, may be relatively unknown--as is gifted guitarist David Tronzo--and what the artfully omitted subordinate clause of the album's first track might say is unclear, but it's helpful to know the first, ...

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Giacomo Merega, David Tronzo, Noah Kaplan: The Light and Other Things

Read "The Light and Other Things" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


David Tronzo is more than a master of jazz slide guitar and world rhythms, panethnic to microethnic. He's a magician that can conjure music from thin air, literally improvising between the notes, at least those commonly used in western music. Mathematically, there are about 479 million combinations of the 12 tones of the western scale—Tronzo's opened ...


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