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Hands

Francesco Bigoni: A Long Love Affair with Siena Jazz

by Paolo Peviani
August 20, 2025

On the occasion of the fifty-fifth edition of the Siena Jazz summer seminars, we met with saxophonist Francesco Bigoni, the new artistic and didactic director of the National Jazz Academy of Siena. With a long trajectory as both student and educator at Siena Jazz, Bigoni reflects on the institution's evolution, its unique approach to jazz training, ...

Francesco Bigoni e Siena Jazz - una lunga storia d’amore

by Paolo Peviani
August 11, 2025

In occasione della cinquantacinquesima edizione dei seminari estivi di Siena Jazz abbiamo incontrato il sassofonista Francesco Bigoni, dallo scorso mese di aprile direttore artistico e didattico dell'Accademia Nazionale del Jazz di Siena. All About Jazz: Siena Jazz è una realtà di cui ogni jazzofilo italiano ha sentito parlare. Penso tuttavia che non tutti abbiano ...

Hands

By Ronan Guilfoyle

Label: Portmanteau Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: In Fairness; Sneaky; Hands; Telemachus; Close Call; Krystal; Nod.

Ronan Guilfoyle: Hands

by Ian Patterson
January 21, 2016

In a thirty-year career as a leader, Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle has built an international reputation as a rhythmically advanced musician and a sophisticated, challenging composer. From indo-jazz suites to contemporary classical music (composed and improvised) and from extended works inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce to suites for jazz guitar trio ...

Hands

By Dave Holland

Label: Dare2 Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Hands; Subi La Cuesta; Camaron; The Whirling Dervish; Yesqueros; El Ritmo Me Lleva; Bailaor; Joyride; Puente Quebrao; My Friend Dave.

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands

by Raul d'Gama Rose
December 25, 2010

The music on Hands, featuring stellar turns primarily from Spanish guitarist Pepe Habichuela and British-born bassist Dave Holland, is quite simply one of the most captivating on record. It is completely an alternative to style, to mere virtuosity, and to angelic grace and charm, as dictated by a muse. This music is the epitomé of the ...

Dave Holland - Pepe Habichuela: Hands

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 27, 2010

Nella sua lunghissima carriera il bassista inglese Dave Holland ha sempre dimostrato di essere pronto a mettersi al servizio di ogni buon progetto che la sorte e la lungimiranza gli hanno fatto incrociare. Le sue straordinarie doti artistiche non sono disgiunte dalle sue eccellenti doti umane e i suoi sodalizi godono di questa fortunata combinazione che ...

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands

by John Kelman
September 6, 2010

Sometimes the best indicator of an artist's versatility is in the side projects they accept. Bassist Dave Holland's career could hardly be described as monolithic, with his discography as a leader--ranging from his quintet (Critical Mass (Dare2, 2006)) to his big band (Overtime (Dare2, 2005)) --nothing short of but exemplary. Still, some of the most unexpected ...

Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands

by Chris May
July 5, 2010

Centuries old, an accretion of musics absorbed by north Indian migrants as they travelled, one stream through the Balkans, the other through the Maghreb, towards their final desination in southern Spain, flamenco is not easy for a non-Gypsy convincingly to perform. Intricately codified, rich in lore and tradition, its broad mannerisms can be mimicked quickly enough, ...