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Ballerini di
notte by Cosimo
Parisi
The first release of this young band leaded by Italian
drummer Paolo Lattanzi is a real impressive one, with a
surprising force wave, thanks to the maturity of the artistic
concept fixed on the disc. It is a multinational group in which
together with Italian bassist Marco Panascia we find the
Spanish Pau Terol on piano and keys, the French Aurelien
Budynek on guitars and the Russian Nikolay Moiseenko on
alto and soprano saxophones. They all come from the Berklee College
of Music in Boston and show, as if it was needed, that it is
possible to obtain the better results only by studying.
The music of the young drummer is characterized by a good
rhythmic charge rooted in what today is considered modern jazz, with
its bop cadences and suffused with dashes of electric sounds
provided with diligence by Budynek’s guitars and, when he is
called on it, by Panascia’s electric bass. A couple of tunes
are memorable, like “Just a Story” with Russian saxophonist
Nikolay Moiseenko playing a la Kenny Garrett (one of the
most interesting saxophonists of the last generation) with great
proficiency, able to accelerate and slow down his stream of notes in
a genial way, at will, telling a story rich of rests and suggestive
moments, with a dramatic voice and an overall fierceness.
Lattanzi’s
compositions are all successful, showing his preparation at all
levels. The general impression left by this album is that of a group
of veterans, ended up by mistake in a label interested in some
contemporary developments like Giorgio Dini’s. On the
contrary they are newcomers and release one of the most interesting
works of this year for what concerns Italian jazz. |