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Unscientific Italians

Unscientific Italians is an 11-piece collective band dedicated to investigating the music of jazz luminary Bill Frisell, created by some of the most gifted performers and bandleaders on the Italian creative scene. Born in 2008 for a small feature of the Italian collective/label El Gallo Rojo at Centro D'Arte in Padova, this project went into hibernation for more than 10 years and came back in 2020, with a revised lineup and repertoire which led to the release of their first work ‘Unscientific Italians Plays the Music of Bill Frisell Vol.1’ released in May 2021 for HORA Records. Musically speaking, Unscientific Italians is not a tribute or an orchestral rendition of Frisell’s music, but rather an idiosyncratic rewriting and orchestration that borrows his compositional and instrumental language. UNSCIENTIFIC ITALIANS Mirco Rubegni trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn Fulvio Sigurtà trumpet, flugelhorn Filippo Vignato trombone Federico Pierantoni trombone Cristiano Arcelli alto sax, soprano sax, bass clarinet Piero Bittolo Bon alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet Francesco Bigoni tenor sax, clarinet, live electronics Rossano Emili baritone sax, bass clarinet Alfonso Santimone piano, arrangements, conduction, live electronics Danilo Gallo double bass Zeno De Rossi drums

Ches Smith, Damasiewicz / Wania, Fujii / Ono & Roberto Ottaviano

by Maurice Hogue
February 26, 2024

Plenty of genre-stretching music in this episode, from drummer Ches Smith's new Laugh Ash, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones and their drive to make their music reflect the need for protest, and the Ewart/Asplin/Ricks Trio, featuring master AACM reedist Douglas Ewart, recorded live at BYU. Polish trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz hooks up with fellow Pole, the ...

Lina Allemano, Thomas Agergaard & Bacchanalia Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
January 16, 2024

Canadian trumpeter Lina Allemano says she started writing canons as a fun and challenging compositional game of sorts; eventually the fun and games morphed into her latest album, Canons , where she's accompanied by a varying cast of characters. On the track chosen for this show Lina is joined by trombonist Matthias Müller. Danish saxophonist Thomas ...

Yuhan Su, Stirrup, Arch Trio & Zenophilia

by Maurice Hogue
January 1, 2024

A mixed bag of music with some interesting new albums: Taiwan/New York vibraphonist Yuhan Su dazzles with her release Liberated Gesture; piano threesomes from the Arch Trio from Italy, Wadji Riahi from Tunisia and Omawi from The Netherlands; Stirrup with Fred Longberg--Holm cello, Nick Macri bass & Charles Rumback drums, another trio of pianist John Blum, ...

Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 2

By Unscientific Italians

Label: Hora Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Freddy’s Step; Love Motel; Pip Squeek; Goodbye; Throughout; Unscientific Americans; Egg Radio.

Unscientific Italians: Play The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 2

by Neri Pollastri
April 3, 2023

Prosegue l'omaggio alla musica di Bill Frisell da parte degli Unscientific Italians che, dopo il disco uscito nel 2021, presentano adesso un secondo volume, proposto anche in un doppio vinile assieme al primo. La formazione è la medesima, anche se ci sono un paio di avvicendamenti in alcune tracce: musicisti in larga parte precedentemente ...

Billy Mohler, Bill Frisell, Jeong Lim Yang, Ken Stubbs & More New Releases

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 14, 2023

Bands of improvisational genius, two takes on early Bill Frisell compositions, an album revisiting the legacy of First House, two productions by the David Breskin / Ron St. Germain dream team, and much more in this edition of Mondo Jazz. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Favourite Recordings from 2021

by Maurice Hogue
January 26, 2022

As per usual, the first One Man's Jazz of a new year features music from my favourite recordings of the previous year, selected from a wide range of artists from 38 countries. I thought 2021 was a fine year for releasing some very good creative music, despite the dire effect of the pandemic on the rest ...

Tony Malaby, Tania Gill & The Gathering

by Maurice Hogue
January 22, 2022

I decided to lay out for most of this last episode of 2021 and just let the music roll. There are a couple of new releases in the mix, one from Tony Malaby and a somewhat revamped Sabino and Toronto pianist Tania Gill's Disappearing Curiosities. Definitely check out the great singer, Dwight Trible, and his rendition ...