Results for "Tonino Miano"

Tonino Miano

Terms like "dense lyricism" and "emotional impact" are used to describe the playing of Tonino Miano. While his analytical mind (he holds a degree in physics from the City College of New York) parses logical progressions for his improvisations, his artist's soul compelled one reviewer to call his work, "Very beautiful and very, very sophisticated." He has performed in venues such as Abrons Art Center, NYU, Knitting Factory, WKCR, 13in13 Jazz Festival, Roulette, Binnenpret, Apollohuis, Stork Music Festival and his list of collaborations include Brian Groder, Mirio Cosottini, Andrea Melani, Dinu Ghezzo, Edoardo Marraffa, Frantz Loriot, Jaap Blonk, Marco Cappelli, Lorenzo Brusci, Alessio Pisani, Jim Pugliese, Francesco Cusa and Riccardo Grosso

Reinhard Gagel, Mirio Cosottini: Pieces without Memory

by Neri Pollastri
June 24, 2015

Frutto di una lunga serie di incontri--avvenuti tra il 2013 e il 2014 in Germania e Italia--tra due musicisti che condividono non solo l'interesse per l'improvvisazione radicale, ma anche quello per la meditata riflessione teoretica sul loro agire artistico, questo disco in duo si compone di dieci tracce aventi in comune progettualmente solo la durata di ...

Mirio Cosottini, Tonino Miano: The Inner Life of Residue

by Neri Pollastri
November 24, 2014

Disco ai confini della contemporanea, The Inner Life of Residue è il terzo pubblicato dal duo di Mirio Cosottini e Tonino Miano, dopo gli apprezzati The Curvature of Pace e Cardinal (con Alessio Pisani al fagotto e Andrea Melani alla batteria). Registrato a New York, città di residenza di Miano, esce per l'etichetta fondata da quest'ultimo, ...

Brian Groder / Tonino Miano: FluiDensity

by Eyal Hareuveni
March 27, 2013

The duo of trumpeter Brian Groder-- known for his collaborations with iconoclastic improvisers, saxophonist Sam Rivers (Torque, Latham, 2006) and pianist Burton Greene (Groder & Greene, Latham, 2009)-- and classically-trained pianist Tonino Miano attempts to bridge the 21st improvisational techniques with the innovations of 20th century contemporary music. These two like-minded musicians draw inspiration from diverse ...

Brian Groder & Tonino Miano: FluiDensity

by Hrayr Attarian
March 19, 2013

Listening to the stimulating FluiDensity is akin to eavesdropping on an intelligent, ad-lib conversation between two friends. Trumpeter Brian Groder and pianist Tonino Miano, both master improvisers, mine the modernist western musical canon for the majority of their ideas and spice it up with a bit of jazz and various ethnic motifs.The energetic “Optika," ...

Ulysses

By Tonino Miano

Label: Impressus Records
Released: 2009

New Release on Impressus Records! Ulysses, Frantz Loriot (Viola), Tonino Miano (Piano)

February 6, 2009

Frantz Loriot and Tonino Miano met on MySpace not long ago and decided to have a session of improvised music. They immediately found an open channel of communication and understood that it needed to be investigated further. They did so by meeting almost regularly with the intent of developing a discourse that went beyond the immediacy ...

New Release Coming Soon from Impressus Records

October 18, 2008

Coming soon! Edus Tonus, a new CD release on Impressus Records. Featuring Edoardo Marraffa (tenor sax/sopranino), and Tonino Miano (piano). About Impressus Records A bold duo with a pungent, forward-pushing sound where familiar lines are often blurred into a tumultuous outpouring of dynamic gestures, creating an overall texture of unequivocal character. IMPRESSUS RECORDS [From Latin impressus, ...

Mirio Cosottini and Tonino Miano Release "The Curvature of Pace" on Impressus Records

March 7, 2008

Mirio Cosottini and Tonino Miano met in Italy a little over nine years ago while recording for The Last Animal, from Zarathustra by Lorenzo Brusci. Four days in a recording studio led to a lot of experimenting; to an almost childlike open-mindedness that is rare to find in amateurs and seasoned artists alike. Session after session, ...

The Curvature of Pace

By Tonino Miano

Label: Impressus Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Mirio Cosottini