Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Gianluca Petrella Title: Indigo4 Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Blue Note Records Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 2/21/2006 Genres: International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop Styles: Europe, Continental Europe, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 094634766524, 094633927759 |
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Already recognized as a rising star in Europe for his handful of recordings and associations with the likes of Enrico Rava and Lester Bowie, Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella is poised to make a memorable splash in Ame... more » |
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Amazon.com Already recognized as a rising star in Europe for his handful of recordings and associations with the likes of Enrico Rava and Lester Bowie, Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella is poised to make a memorable splash in America with this thoroughly winning Blue Note debut. Plenty of young artists, armed with newfangled technology and/or pop sensibilities, have aimed at broadening jazz's appeal. Leading a pianoless all-Italian quartet steeped in free jazz, the 30-year-old Petrella achieves that not by pandering to young listeners with tricked-up rock covers, but by entering into a revelatory dialog with jazz tradition through the measured application of electronics and samples and other cleverly conceived modern touches. The most striking track is the delightful opening rendition of Thelonious Monk's "Trinkle, Tinkle," which boasts computer-generated snatches of the master. But with its crisp bass 'n' drum passages, geometric melodies and atmospheric effects, the album sustains its lively creative edge. Petrella is a flexible, distinctive soloist, as is tenor saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti. Though tributes to Monk, Ellington and Sun Ra stand out--as does a dark, skipping take on an escavated Tony Williams Lifetime tune, "There Comes a Time"--Petrella's originals make their mark as well. --Lloyd Sachs Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsVery smart modern European jazz Jan P. Dennis | Monument, CO USA | 05/05/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "These guys prove that lots of exciting things are going down in the European jazz scene. Besides ESB, Thomas Stanko, his Trio, lots of other ECM stuff, and Bugge Wesseltoff, there's a thriving, forward-looking community of improvisers in Italy, whose music is faithfully documented on avant-garde labels like Splasc(h) and occasionally finds its way to more mainstream outfits such as Blue Note.
This quartet disc headed by trombonist Gianluca Petrella showcases the Italian New Thing in a very attractive setting. Using such devices as delays, live electronics and samples, and jazz-punkish approaches to sound engineering and imaging (a la the Bad Plus), Indigo4 lays down an attractive, modern soundscape. Map onto that some very attractive reworking of standards (Monk's "Trinkle Tinkle" and Ellington's "I Got It Bad," a bass-trombone duet that astounds, and "Mood Indigo," also highly creative but in a more conventionally deconstructionist way), some killer original tunes, and brilliant playing from the four band members (Petrella, trombone, live electronics, and samples; Francesco Bearzatti, tenor sax and clarinet; Paolino Della Porta, bass; and Favio Accardi, drums) and you have a jazz disc to be reckoned with. The only stumble, and it's a slight one, is the tune "Sacred Whale," which tends to lumber, drag, and meander, although it almost comes together about midway through with a stinging tenor solo over some quite evocative whalelike electronics. All in all, I'm very taken by this effort, and I look forward to hearing more music from this distinguished and original outfit." |
