Enzo Amazio Quintet - Essence (2014/2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

It is inevitable, reflecting on the title of the album and on the nouns in the tracklist, to go back to the good seasons that jazz has lived in its most recent and casual moments, to moments that have helped to refine the essence of new qualities solos that have given life to a Modern Mainstream, always updated with the best genesis of Rock and "border music".

Thanks to the ductility of supporting actors who find their main strengths in the most plastic voices of instruments, Enzo Amazio offers a personal emotional itinerary through songs like "2014" (mindful of the most cherished atmospheres to Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Mike Stern and George Benson) or the lively "1967", whose harmonic intuitions are the vehicle for inspired and gritty solos, among which the fluidity of rhythm, the Savoir Faire of pianists Tommy De Paola and Francesco Marziani, and the Groove di Rocco are interposed Di Maiolo on sax and Gabriele Mirabassi on clarinet, whose comments balance Hard Bop and Swing in an atmosphere that seems to approach, transversely, tradition and evolution in a Varietas of references and forms that allow to exhibit a mobility of breath and a elegant attention to the more subtle and colloquial implications, as in "Essence" and in "Song for Gabriel", free space between the twilight of the Ballad and the decided No a tinge of soft, oblique and diaphanous melodies.

The bleaching of time in the contemporary wills of the Blue Notes does not always present an interpretation so pleasant and so spontaneously contaminated by multifaceted impressionism and warm evanescence between the Soul Jazz and the solar / reflective Mediterranean climate evoked by that "Sweet Naples" so close to grace Neapolitan of the best Pino Daniele.

As a guitarist and composer, Amazio shows a historical competence able to refer to the lyric experiences of Jim Hall and the elegant measure of Wes Montgomery, smoothing the inventive counterpoint with the agile clarity of those who know how to translate Pragmatism into a subtle, fine expressive version it's bright.

Tracklist:

01. 2014
02. Dolce Napoli
03. 1967
04. Mille baci
05. Irreversibile
06. In & Out
07. Mister John
08. Essence
09. Reflection
10. Song for Gabriel

Personnel:

Enzo Amazio - guitars
Rocco di Maiolo - sax
Tommy De Paola - piano #1,2,6
Francesco Marziani - piano #4,8,9
Gennaro Di Costanzo - double bass
Corrado Cirillo - double bass #4,8,9
Enzo De Rosa - drums
Sergio Di Natale - drums #4,8,9
Agostino Mas - percussions #2
Special guest: Gabriele Mirabassi - clarinet #3,8,10



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