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01. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - B_Polar
02. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - White Piano
03. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Falk the Bow
04. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Give Me Some Options
05. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Window on a Better World
06. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Blu Piano
07. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Killcoal
08. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Intro K.B.
09. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Kamennaja Baba
10. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Before the Stars
11. SIMONE GRAZIANO FRONTAL - Starlette
ARTIST
TITLE
Trentacinque
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
AU 9053CD AU 9053CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/13/2015

Italian pianist and composer Simone Graziano's third album, Trentacinque ("thirty-five") marks his second recording as a leader of his quintet, Frontal, featuring Gabriele Evangelista on double bass, Stefano Tamborrino on drums, and David Binney on alto sax, with the addition of Dan Kinzelman on tenor sax. The album's title refers to the number of years Graziano has spent around Florence, his native city, which is one of the main inspirations for this work; it also refers to the number of recordings he's made (three), the number of members in Frontal (five), and the meter of most compositions (five). Graziano's tracks are made up of elaborate structures and improvisation, with his ensemble looking back at traditional jazz while working on a signature collective sound. The improvised "B-Polar" analyzes bipolarity in music and expresses the wish to reconnect distant ends. "White Piano" is a cold ballad highlighting Graziano's classy approach. Unlike his previous album, Frontal (2013), the Italian jazz pianist -- who studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston -- now adds rhythmic allusions to electronic music, as in "Falk the Bow," with upbeats and downbeats mixed up again and again. A short divertissement on a groove, "Give Me Some Options" is pure improvisation, while the counterpoint on "Window on a Better World" underlines a polyphonic dialogue. As additional proof of his powerful narrative writing, "Blu Piano" and "Killcoal" take different approaches to descriptive music. "Intro K.B." unveils a taste for an unpredictable use of electronics, while "Kamennaya Baba" faces hip hop.