"And there is nothing sadder, on days like these, than remembering happiness. Goodbye Ornella." Paolo Fresu recalls Ornella Vanoni with a post on Facebook. A very strong artistic and ...

You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as experience it. The Cuban-born pianist's overall demeanor exudes a sense of calm and deep reflection, while a spiritual connection to music ...

While the connection between Cuban pianist Omar Sosa and Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu was established back in 2006, their partnership truly blossomed with Alma (Ota Music, 2012), a beauty of an album ...

On The Lost Chords Meet Paolo Fresu, Carla Bley has composed music for her quartet, plus the outstanding Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu that is just about the ideal mixture of beauty and intellect. It ...

There is a hum of anticipation about the coming together of Italian trumpet and flügelhorn player Paolo Fresu, Italian pianist and composer Rita Marcotulli, and our very own percussion maestro Trilok ...

For more than three decades Carla Bley has been one of the most consistently creative composer-arranger-bandleaders. Although best-known for large ensembles, she can make a very small one sound ...

Awaiting her version of Vasco Rossi's "Vivere" to be released posthumously, it is still the songs that mark the final farewell to Ornella Vanoni. Paolo Fresu takes up his trumpet to ...

Paolo Fresu & Daniele di Bonaventura bookend their atmospheric duet with a solemn call to arms and a majestic hymnal. In between, the Sardinian trumpeter and Italian bandoneonist deliver intimacy and ...

Fresu has been delighting listeners with an easy intimacy only the truly gifted can lavish. Jazz, perhaps America’s best contribution to the world, travels rather well. Even at the time it was taking ...

It is not easy to tell a war through the eyes of someone who does not brandish a weapon, but a musical instrument. Yet it is precisely from this gaze - full of respect, awareness and grace - that ...

Preceded by some previews of the featured artists, the thirty-eighth edition of Time in Jazz finally reveals its face. Which fully embodies the spirit of the theme-title chosen for 2025: “What a ...

Fresu's work on trumpet and flugelhorn provides a perfect foil for Sosa's introspective intersection of jazz, Afro-Cuban sounds and a... You don't really listen to an Omar Sosa concert so much as ...