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Traps

Label: CAM Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Hands; Whispering; Traps; Octagonal; Monkish; North; A Night in Salzau; Was Zahlen Sie (extract from �Der Silbersee�); Flow; Catch the Drums.

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Drummer Roberto Gatto's quartet pleasingly ensnares a range of contrasting musical quarry without falling into the Traps of pretense and mimicry. Within his strong framework of compositional eloquence and musical economy, Gatto draws on Monk, Latin, Kurt Weill and assorted other influences for a relaxing yet highly expressive program. Gatto is a stalwart in an Italian ...

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Roberto Gatto: Traps

by John Kelman
July 7, 2007

Best-known to North American audiences for his work with fellow Italian, trumpeter Enrico Rava on Easy Living (ECM, 2004) and The Words and the Days (ECM, 2007), drummer Roberto Gatto is, nevertheless, a busy artist in his home country, appearing on dozens of albums over the past two decades. He's also a drummer who, like artists ...

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Roberto Gatto: Traps

Read "Traps" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 9, 2007

Parte un po’ in sordina Traps, album d’esordio del nuovo quartetto di Roberto Gatto. I primi due brani, pur ottimamente suonati, galleggiano in una sorta di limbo, quello delle atmosfere tenui e delicate, tutto nuances e frasi carezzevoli, che può felicemente sublimarsi in poesia ma altrettanto velocemente sconfinare in frasi fatte, in deja vu e, nel ...