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A dialogo con Giancarlo Mazzù e Luciano Troja

Read "A dialogo con Giancarlo Mazzù e Luciano Troja" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Il chitarrista calabrese Giancarlo Mazzù e il pianista siciliano Luciano Troja formano ormai da molti anni una coppia artistica molto affiatata. Messisi in luce nell'interessante quartetto Mahanada, che realizzò tre album tra il 2004 e il 2008 (leggi la recensione di Mahanatta), i due hanno poi consolidato la loro intesa artistica pubblicando i due volumi di ...

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Broad-Ways

Label: Ack Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Begin the Beguine; Puttin’ on the Ritz; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Pert 1; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Part 2; Night and Day; I Concentrate on You; Something Gotta Give; Change Partners; Let’s Face the Music and Dance; The Way You Look Tonight; Cheek to Cheek; Dancing in the Dark; A Fine Romance; All of You.

Article: Album Review

Enrico Pieranunzi, Federico Casagrande: Double Circle

Read "Double Circle" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


L'incontro tra la chitarra acustica e il pianoforte è sempre molto affascinante, oltre a essere anche piuttosto raro (qui in Italia, vanno ricordati quelli di Giancarlo Mazzù con Luciano Troja). Il duetto documentato su questo CD ha la particolarità di essere l'incontro anche di due diverse generazioni di musicisti jazz italiani, visto che al piano siede ...

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Article: Album Review

Blasie Siwula/Luciano Troja/John Murchison: Beneath the Ritual

Read "Beneath the Ritual" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The biggest slice of the free jazz stew is cooked up with--going back to the beginnings of alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman's artistry--a horn or two stirred in with bass and drums. The chording instrument--guitar or piano--is generally optional. But when a piano sits in, the potential for sweetening the sound bounces up big time. Consider Coleman's ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Three Shots from Siwula: Blaise Siwula & NoFrillsMusic

Read "Three Shots from Siwula: Blaise Siwula & NoFrillsMusic" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard


The emergence of free jazz in the 1950s and 1960s pioneered a new way of thinking about music that not only affected the way music sounded, but also the way it was shared and distributed. In many ways, free jazz was a movement away from mainstream and mass-distribution and the rediscovery of music as art, but ...

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Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

Messina Sea Jazz Festival 2013

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Messina Sea Jazz Festival 2013Messina, ItalyJuly 17-21, 2013Messina, the city on the Sicilian side of the Straits connecting the Thyrrenian and the Ionian seas--for the geographically challenged, that bit of sea on the point of the Italian boot--is not on the list of the most famous Italian or even Sicilian ...

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At Home with Zindars

Label: Luciano Troja
Released: 2011
Track listing: Mother of Earl; Nice Place; Silverado Trail; Four Times 'Round; Z Waltz; Sareen Jurer--The Mountain's Water Part One; Sareen Jurer--The Mountain's Water Part Two; Lullaby for Helene; Karen's Mode; My Love is like an April Song; Three Times 'Round; Earl and Bill; I Always Think of You; Joy; How My Heart Sings; Roses for Annig.

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Article: Album Review

Luciano Troja: At Home with Zindars

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Italian pianist Luciano Troja--like saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, drummers Philly Joe Jones and Tony Williams, accordionist Dino Saluzzi, guitarists Larry Coryell and Emily Remler,and trumpeter Donald Byrd before him--discovered the beauty of pianist/composer Earl Zindars' music via the numerous interpretations of pianist Bill Evans. Enchanted by Zindars' compositions, Troja embarked on a five-year odyssey to meet the ...

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At Home with Zindars

Label: Self-produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. Mother of Earl - 4:31; 2. Nice Place - 3:19; 3. Silverado Trail - 6:18; 4. Four Times ‘Round - 3:13; 5. Z Waltz - 2:28; 6. Sareen Jurer - The Mountain’s Water (part one) - 4:03; 7. Sareen Jurer - The Mountain’s Water (part two) - 3:48; 8. Lullaby for Helene - 3:12; 9. Karen’s Mode - 3:32; 10. My Love Is an April Song - 6:24; 11. Three Times ‘Round - 3:22; 12. Earl and Bill (L. Troja) - 5:55; 13. I Always Think Of You - 2:29; 14. Joy - 5:05; 15. How My Heart Sings (Anne & Earl Zindars) - 2:21; 16. Roses for Annig - 4:14 Ove non indicato le composizioni sono di Earl Zindars.

Article: Album Review

Luciano Troja: At Home with Zyndars

Read "At Home with Zyndars" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Sono molti i pregi, musicali e più generalmente culturali, di questo accurato lavoro di Luciano Troja, pianista messinese classe 1963, che negli ultimi tempi si è messo in luce con la formazione dei Mahanada (clicca qui per leggere la recensione del CD Mannahatta) e nel duo con il chitarrista Giancarlo Mazzù (clicca qui per leggere la ...


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