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Paolo Lattanzi is a young musician from Macerata (class
1977), who has moved to Boston a few years ago and obtained
a diploma at Berklee majoring in Parformance.
A gifted, particularly versatile drummer, he studied
arranging and the ten tunes in the CD are all written by
himself. This is an interesting disc for several reasons.
First of all it allows us to discover this talented musician
from our country, which wouldn’t be as easy since he lives
in the USA. Secondly with this we get to know other very
good and exciting musicians. Starting with Nikolay Moissenko
(soprano and alto saxes – I prefer him on the latter),
guitarist Aurelien Budynek (beautiful solo on “24/2”),
pianist Pau Terol and bassist Marco Panascia.
The Group is at ease even through difficult time signatures
as in “In a Dark Room” (excellent sax solo, where it is
evident that Nikolay is paying a tribute to the great master
Michael Brecker). They show great interplay, listening to
each other and exchanging ideas, supporting the music
without overplaying. In fact they manage to generate gentle
and silky atmospheres (see “When it Doesn’t Matter”), they
have fun challenging each other on different tempos and
display excellent technique.
This promising debut album for Paolo Lattanzi as band leader
makes us discover this gifted musician who projects himself
outside the boundaries of traditional jazz. Diverse musical
influences (from Led Zeppelin to Metheny) have marked the
drummer’s growth and more evidently the composer’s one. Like
many drummers he doesn’t love to stay for too long on the
most usual time signatures, but that’s no affliction to the
listener, on the contrary, it is an added value.
Most of the melodies are catchy and laid back with, at
times, an Arabic or Balkan flavor and are always well
performed by the leading musician (often times Nikolay).
The album was released in 2006 by Giorgio Dini’s Silta
Records (http://www.siltarecords.it)
More information about Lattanzi on
http://www.paololattanzi.com |
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