Riccardo Fassi Discography of CDs

Riccardo Fassi albums Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band: Riccardo Fassi (arranger, piano, keyboard); Alfredo Minotti (vocals, percussion) Michel Audisso (soprano & alto saxophones); Sandro ...

Riccardo Fassi music CDs Track Listing of songs: Why Buddha; Harpo; Amico Immaginario; Near the River; Blues for Us; Notturno; Marte; Vento; Energia; Amico Immaginario; Fast Past; Lyle;

Riccardo Fassi CD discography Frank Zappa's music is not easy to convert to the stage of the jazz band. Although Zappa's zany compositions have always attracted some of the more adventurous jazz players, the actual jazz content of the ...

With Billy Elgart on drums and Paolino Della Porta on bass, it's tough to imagine Riccardo Fassi turning in anything less than a stellar recorded set. That's exactly the case; in fact, it may be ...

Pianist Riccardo Fassi looks like somewhat of a geek on the front cover, standing on a landscape comprised entirely of sand with his knees bent and wearing a striped shirt, shorts, suspenders, and a sunhat, ...

Riccardo Fassi/Strange Noise Project includes: Riccardo Fassi (keyboards); Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone); Antonello Salis (accordion).

The title of this recording is founded upon dodecaphonic (twelve-tone music) fundamentals and the nature of the soloists' aggressive exchanges. However, with this release, keyboardist/arranger Riccardo Fassi and his large ensemble have branded an irrefutable ...

The second outing by the Riccardo Fassi Tankio Band is, like its predecessor, one of ordered composition, sonic discoveries in color, and tonal equations heretofore considered verböten for large ensembles, and an attempt to radically ...

On Dummy, Steve Lacy meets the formidable Riccardo Fassi Trio in Italy. Pianist Fassi, drummer Ettore Fioravanti, and bassist Gianluca Renzi are a very intimate and intricate unit on their own. All three members are composers and arrangers as well as stellar improvisers. Lacy was walking into a situation where a trio could see him coming a mile off. And they play with him as if he were a fourth member, not a soloist. From the opening of Fassi's own "Dark Water," written for Lacy, the bandmembers are off and swinging in that off-handed, slightly behind the beat way of theirs, allowing for all sorts of gaps in the jazz slipstream. Fassi's solo, based around a series of two intervals that allows him to play solo and fill the spaces simultaneously, strides right for the area of Lacy's solo that seems the most obvious, then shifts the time signature. Renzi's bass solo puts it on track and the gentle swing all comes back for Lacy. On the title cut, written by Lacy for Alan Shorter, the notion of counterpoint and rhythmic displacement creates a kind of unified dissonance in which no seams are apparent. The long, knotty, intricate melodic line gives way to a blues that falters, strolls, and glides into a ...