Results for "Giancarlo Tossani"

Sarah Murcia, Thumbscrew & Giancarlo Tossani

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2021

There's lots of new releases sampled in this episode. The critics' darlings, Thumbscrew is back and meeting their usual standards of creativity and originality. Popular French bassist Sarah Murcia sings off-beat stuff on her new Eyeballing, while the Finnish quartet Alder Ego stretches the boundaries on their latest. The pandemic looms over the new release by ...

Giancarlo Tossani e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
April 7, 2021

Il tratto principale della mia musica Emozione e riflessione, equilibrio tra scrittura e improvvisazione (così dicono...). La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me Affinità musicale e umana, cos'altro sennò? Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice Quando ho scoperto che si poteva ...

Big Monitors: Knots and Notes

by Vincenzo Roggero
April 5, 2021

Certo William Parker e la sua musica sono la ragione, il combustibile di Knots and Notes, ma l'album è molto di più di un semplice omaggio ad un protagonista assoluto della musica improvvisata (e di altre forme artistiche ad essa collegata) degli ultimi quarant'anni. Nato quasi per caso da un'intuizione che poi è diventata una sfida ...

Ben Monder, Sandy Evans, Andrea Keller, Ralph Alessi & Rich Halley

by Maurice Hogue
November 25, 2020

Monash University in jny: Melbourne, Australia is the home of the Sir Zelman Cowen School Of Music. It's an excellent program that believes in challenging the students. One of the ways it does that is to bring in internationally recognized artists to perform and work directly with the students. This episode presents some of those Monash ...

Giancarlo Tossani: Strange Spy

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
March 10, 2020

Proprio dopo aver raggiunto l'ideale sublimazione sonora e l'equilibrio strutturale nell'album Newswok con il progetto Synapser ed il contributo di Ralph Alessi, il pianista e compositore di stanza a Cremona rimescola le proprie carte creative ripartendo (quasi) da zero con il progetto-disco Strange Spy che, fin dal titolo (anagramma di G. T. Synapser), si presenta in ...

Giancarlo Tossani

Winner of the Italian Top Jazz 2006 (“Musica Jazz” Annual Critics Pool) as ” Italian Rising Star”, and well placed in more categories in subsequent years. Second and best placed in JazzIt Awards, Keyboard category, in the last years. His recordings as leader, with the band “Synapser”, are released by Auand label. More projects: – Opus Soup, a kind of open-space where musicians with different styles, cultures and backgrounds (jazz, hip hop, blues, pop, prog, contemporary music) come together. – co-founder with Enrico Merlin of Molester sMiles, dedicated to Miles Davis electric period. His last Cd as leader is “Newswok” featuring the NY trumpet player Ralph Alessi. He played with several musicians and in festivals and clubs (included the Blue Note in NYC) His last, solo, album is “Strange Spy”, 2019. His latest album is "Knots and Notes" (Auand Records) - march 2021. Halfway between a musical investigation and a sociological experiment aims to put five musicians of different generations face to face with the repertoire of an eclectic of free jazz (and not only) as the double bassist William Parker

Strange Spy

By Giancarlo Tossani

Label: Auand Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Intro; A Lot of Hats; Precept Diversity; School Off; Apheresis (to DFW); Unwise Veils; King to King; Disclosure; The Still Point; Fun Angle; Skipping Indeed; Retrochord; Blackbird; Outro.

Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller, Vincent Peirani and New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
July 13, 2019

Another week replete with beautiful new releases, and re-releases, from the etheral to the political, both catchy and heart-brakingly gorgeous, from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Happy listening! Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Vincent Peirani “What Power Art Thou" Living Being II: Night ...

Molester Smiles

By Giancarlo Tossani

Label: Milk
Released: 2016

Tito Mangialajo Rantzer e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
August 31, 2016

All About Jazz Italia: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Tito Mangialajo Rantzer: Che sia sincera e con lo sguardo verso l'ignoto e il rischio. Ma anche che sia in qualche modo legata alla tradizione, al suono di quella musica che chiamiamo jazz, della quale sono terribilmente innamorato. AAJI: La qualità che ...