Jazz and Latin music – both passionate and rhythmic but in a slightly different way. I believe that this simultaneous similarity-and-different makes them so good in a combination. I personally love mixed forms of art, especially when it comes to music. And that’s why coming across some new artists who can do it skillfully is every time a little treasure to me. My latest finding is of Italian origin – pianist, composer and arranger Fabio Gianni. It’s one of those cases when you are not too likely to meet the musician’s work at every corner of the Internet, because Fabio doesn’t seem to be too crazy about online promotion preferring real-life word-spread to it (at least I got such an impression trying to find some more info about him in the world network – too scarce).
Fabio began to play salsa music about 15 years ago and apparently loved it so much that decided to make it his passion. That’s how the idea of the “Latin Sound Machine” project was born, where the Latin was mixed up with some pop, jazz, soul and a bit of rock. The Italian pianist stuck to that direction and was composer for different bands playing Latin music, like “IGUAZU” trio. He also made salsa-jazzy duets with popular musicians like Cano Estremera, Tony Vega, Maelo Ruiz, Paquito Guzman and others, as well as creating a long list of own solo works for piano.
The first composition I heard was “Tell You How I'm Feeling” and I recommend it for your first listen too. Just lovely. And there’s the music score to it, for piano, if you wanna play it yourself. Oh, and sheet music to some other works by Gianni - here. If you like salsa as much as I do – enjoy!
Fabio began to play salsa music about 15 years ago and apparently loved it so much that decided to make it his passion. That’s how the idea of the “Latin Sound Machine” project was born, where the Latin was mixed up with some pop, jazz, soul and a bit of rock. The Italian pianist stuck to that direction and was composer for different bands playing Latin music, like “IGUAZU” trio. He also made salsa-jazzy duets with popular musicians like Cano Estremera, Tony Vega, Maelo Ruiz, Paquito Guzman and others, as well as creating a long list of own solo works for piano.
The first composition I heard was “Tell You How I'm Feeling” and I recommend it for your first listen too. Just lovely. And there’s the music score to it, for piano, if you wanna play it yourself. Oh, and sheet music to some other works by Gianni - here. If you like salsa as much as I do – enjoy!
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