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Article: Album Review

Nicola Fazzini Quartet: Metamorfosi

Read "Metamorfosi" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi

Con questo disco Nicola Fazzini si conferma compositore e solista di prim'ordine, in grado di focalizzare un'estetica dai contorni netti, definiti, e soprattutto di guidare un gruppo, bilanciando a dovere esigenze dei singoli e razionalità del collettivo. L'altosassofonista ha come obiettivo quello di realizzare una musica accessibile, un jazz ordinato, elegante ma che ...

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Article: Album Review

Cristina Pato: Migrations

Read "Migrations" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri

La spagnola Cristina Pato, pianista, flautista, cantante ma soprattutto suonatrice di cornamusa galiziana (gaita), guida qui un gruppo composito che ha per base un quartetto (oltre a lei ci sono la fisarmonica di Victor Prieto, galiziano di Orense come la Pato, il contrabbasso di Edward Perez e la batteria di Eric Doob) e un gran numero ...

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Albert's Instigation Quartet: The Tree on the Mound

Read "The Tree on the Mound" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero

The Tree on the Mound si apre e si chiude con due composizioni di Fred Anderson. Nessuna sorpresa se pensiamo che Jeff Albert ed Hamid Drake sono stati allievi del grande sassofonista di Chicago e che Kidd Jordan ha avuto con Anderson una collaborazione proficua e duratura. Sono questi i brani più lirici, commoventi nella loro ...

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Article: Live Review

Tim Berne’s Snakeoil al Bologna Jazz Festival

Read "Tim Berne’s Snakeoil al Bologna Jazz Festival" reviewed by Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè

Tim Berne's Snakeoil Torrione Jazz Club Bologna Jazz Festival Ferrara 28.10.2013 Ogni grande musicista in età matura non può che ripetere se stesso, ribadendo le originali forme espressive maturate in decenni; c'è però chi si adagia su una routine autocelebrativa, e rassicurante per le orecchie dei fan, e chi ...

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Article: Live Review

Aaron Parks Trio al Teatro Manzoni, Milano

Read "Aaron Parks Trio al Teatro Manzoni, Milano" reviewed by Paolo Peviani

by Paolo Peviani

Aperitivo in concerto Teatro Manzoni 10.11.2013 Da Paul Bley a Keith Jarrett, passando attraverso Misha Alperin e Bobo Stenson, fino ai nostri Stefano Battaglia e Stefano Bollani... Non c'è dubbio che Manfred Eicher, deus ex machina della casa discografica ECM, abbia buon fiuto per i pianisti. ...

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Article: Interview

Claudio Filippini: Facing North

Read "Claudio Filippini: Facing North" reviewed by Robin Arends

by Robin Arends

Pianist Claudio Filippini, born in Pescara in 1982, is one of the bright young stars of Italian jazz. With his album The Enchanted Garden (CAM Jazz, 2011) he was hailed as the new “wonder boy" of Italian jazz. Now he is regarded as a pianist/composer of international stature, with his album Facing North (CAM Jazz, 2013) ...

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Article: Album Review

Satelliti: Transister

Read "Transister" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Marco Dalle Luche and Andrea Polato are Satelliti, a keyboards and drums duo from Bolzano in northern Italy. The pair started jamming together in 2010: Transister is their impressive second album, a mature and enjoyable collection of original tunes. The Satelliti sound combines one of the earliest musical instruments, the drum, with one of ...

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Article: Album Review

Vittorio Gennari: Blues

Read "Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Italian alto saxophonist Vittorio Gennari manages to keep together his band from his 2010 Melodies for another run on Blues, a recording he nominally shares with vibraphonist Daniele Di Gregorio. The two survey the sacred twelve bars much in the same way as Jackie McLean on his 1961 Bluesnik (Blue Note) or Jimmy Smith on Six ...

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Article: Album Review

Roberto Bonati Trio: Bianco il vestito nel buio

Read "Bianco il vestito nel buio" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Spending considerable time as Artistic Director of Italy's creative ParmaFrontiere-- occurring in Parma each fall, a festival small in size but broad in scope--Roberto Bonati spends the rest of his time as a double bassist who, amongst other things, is one of GIanluigi Trovesi's top-calls, last heard with the Italian saxophonist/clarinetist's Ottetto on Fugace (ECM, 2003). ...

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Bertoni: 1/2 H(our) Drama

Read "1/2 H(our) Drama" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

After several decades residing as a prominent UK-based jazz, avant-garde and improvisational record label, it's not a common occurrence for Leo Records proprietor, Leo Feigin to pen an artist or group's album notes. On this outing by Italian bassist Antonio Bertoni, he advises, “I could not help writing in the booklet that this is one of ...


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