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XYQuartet

XYQuartet

  • Nicola Fazzini (alto sax)
  • Alessandro Fedrigo (bass guitar)
  • Saverio Tasca (vibes)
  • Luca Colussi (drums)
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«QUAND LA RECHERCHE MUSICALE PRODUIT DE LA BEAUTÉ ON NE PEUT QUE S’EXTASIER»
Serge Baudot, Jazz Hot

«XY PLAYS A ‘MODERN JAZZ’ WITH CROSS STRUCTURES, COMPLEX CONNECTIONS AND A CONSTANT COURAGE TO RISK»
Ernst Mitter, Freistil, November 2013

«ONE OF THE MOST PECULIAR ITALIAN JAZZ GROUPS OF OUR TIME»
Stefano Merighi, Centro d’Arte in Padua

«ONCE YOU GET INTO “XY”‘S GAME, YOU’LL BE FASCINATED BY IT. EXCELLENT»
Enrico Bettinello, Il Giornale della Musica, May 2014

ITALIAN SECOND “BEST GROUP”
TOP JAZZ 2017 – MUSICA JAZZ magazine

XY Quartet can be considered by all means a representative band of the new Italian Jazz scene.

The group, established in 2011, looks back upon 5 CD (Idea F, XY, Orbite, QuartettoQuartetto and Strabordante printed by nusica.org), concerts by many of the major Italian Festivals and a growing artistic activity abroad.

The band has achieved numerous critical and public acclaims, has been rewarded as second best Italian group by Musica Jazz magazine in 2014 and 2017 and to its credit lists also interviews with specialised periodicals and a good number of positive reviews in Italy and abroad.

XY Quartet stands out live for its strenght and expressive effectiveness with which is able to elaborate musical, originals and innovative, materials maintaining a constant balance between improvisation and composition. Various influences mark the band music: jazz, contemporary, minimalism, electronic, prog, and each of these elements seem to merge into a peculiar and unique language that puts the band on the international spotlight.

Moved by different interests such as musical research but also science fiction, architecture and literature, the Nicola Fazzini and Alessandro Fedrigo band leaders love to picture their music as an inspiration and creation conceived by the imaginary character Jon Futuru. Jon, the fruit of

Alessandro Fedrigo’s vivid imagination, lives in the outer space of a long gone time. This entrangement (alienation) game is nothing but a reflection on the musical language itself, on the different materials that make it up and on the meaning they have in our society. The elements of the musical language are taken away from their historical, geographical, social context and projected into another dimension that becomes an hypothetical extraterrestrial future.

During the years XY Quartet has realized different live experiences, one of which is the remarkable multimedia project in collaboration with the video artist Claudio Sichel, not to mention a theatre multidisciplinary  production dedicated to the italian poet Dante Alighieri.

XY Quartet has also taken part in some of the most important Jazz Festivals in Italy and around the world and here a short list only to remember some of them in Italy : Umbria Jazz Winter, Novara Jazz, Centro d’Arte Padova, Ivrea Jazz Festival, Una striscia di terra feconda in Roma, Nel gioco del jazz in Bari,Jazz, Jazz and Wine of peace in Cormons, Ferrara Jazz Club, Casa del Jazz in Rome; and abroad XY Quartet had tours in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, The Netherlands,Slovenia, Finnland and Hungary.

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