Results for "Luca Curcio"

Luca Curcio

Luca Curcio is an Italian-born bassist, composer, producer, and improviser based between Berlin and Copenhagen, performing and producing across Europe. His music merges improvisation, sampling, and deep rhythmic exploration, inspired by the groove and improvisational traditions that shaped contemporary music, from Charles Mingus and Charlie Haden to A Tribe Called Quest, Gnawa trance musicians, and experimental producers like Flying Lotus — shaping a raw, rhythm-forward sound that transcends genre boundaries.

Curcio leads La BOMBA, a project that channels high-energy, groove-driven improvisation through rhythmically focused compositions, sample-based textures, and raw, physical interplay

Luca Curcio: La BOMBA

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 27, 2026

La BOMBA è l'album di esordio di Luca Curcio, contrabbassista, compositore, produttore italiano che vive e opera tra Berlino e Copenhagen (disco registrato nella capitale danese, post-produzione e registrazioni aggiuntive nella capitale tedesca, ensemble italo-islando-norvegese: Francesco Bigoni (sassofono tenore), Sölvi Kolbeinsson (sassofono contralto), Erik Kimestad Pedersen (tromba), Simon Olderskog Albertsen (batteria). E che esordio! ...

The Final Batch of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things - Part 4

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 7, 2026

This episode of Mondo Jazz isn't about rankings or best-of lists. It's about memory. Over the past six months, certain pieces of music kept calling us back. Among them, are the tunes in this playlist. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Luca Curcio ...

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 5, 2026

Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

La BOMBA

By Luca Curcio

Label: Boomslang Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fisk; What Frendship?; No Strawberries; Working (Class) Title; Kraken; Bomba Dub; Quasi Quasar; Me and the Night but No Music.

Thomas Strønen, Gard Nillsen, Things Of This Nature & Atlas Maior

by Maurice Hogue
December 29, 2025

Norway is a country that punches way above its weight when it comes to producing excellent jazz musicians, and two of the best drummers from that country have released excellent recordings of late: Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide's Off Stillness and Gard Nilssen with an expanded Acoustic Unity, celebrating their tenth anniversary. The ...

Luca Curcio, Marcus Gilmore, Alison Shearer, John Scofield, Dave Holland & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 15, 2025

Welcome back to our weekly dispatch of recent and upcoming releases--where “recent and upcoming" isn't a marketing catchphrase but living proof that jazz keeps surpassing expectations, along with our sheer ability to keep up.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Luca Curcio “Bomba Dub" La ...

Luca Curcio: Fisk

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 9, 2025

You know you're in for a good day when extraordinary music lands in your headphones completely out of the blue. That's how I stumbled upon the remarkable debut album by bassist Luca Curcio, Bomba (Boomslang Records), through a chain of insignificant coincidences.What struck me most is the ease with which his Italo-Scandinavian quintet--Erik Kimestad ...

Luca Curcio's Sabir in concert at FolkClub

by Antonio Baiano
April 14, 2019