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o5 – XYQuartet

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o5 XYQuartet

XYQUARTET

  • Nicola Fazzini (alto sax)
  • Alessandro Fedrigo (acoustic bass guitar)
  • Saverio Tasca (vibraphone)
  • Luca Colussi (drums)

«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

SECOND “BEST GROUP”
One of the TEN “BEST ALBUM” of the year
TOP JAZZ 2014 – MUSICA JAZZ magazine

Born in 2011 from the urge to research a new compositional sense, XYQuartet is a beyond-jazz project, which includes elements from different kinds of music and artistic languages while keeping the distance from all of them.

The group’s style is a fusion of saxophonist Nicola Fazzini and bass player Alessandro Fedrigo complementary artistic identities. They create an original, exciting and innovative music with Saverio Tasca at the vibraphone and Luca Colussi at the drums.

The “X” by Fazzini and the “Y” by Fedrigo represent two approaches, two twists, two ideas but also two instruments, like the alto sax and the acoustic bass guitar. Their roles are also different: Fazzini is the ‘chemist’ and Fedrigo is the ‘technologist’. Together they’re the ‘double F’ of the title “Idea F”, their first album released by Italian label nusica.org. The cd has been awarded one of the best 100 albums of 2012 by JAZZiT Magazine and was positively received by the critic, allowing the quartet to play in prestigious clubs and festivals. “Idea F” introduced some techniques of the 20th century Contemporary Music to jazz music but reworked them finally offering a new genre.

“XY”, the homonymous album, has been realized on May 2014 thanks to a crowd-funding campaign. Recently it has been defined one of the ten italian cd of the year by “Musica Jazz” magazine and XYQuartet has been awarded as second “best group”.

In this new album the two leaders and composers develop their concept further: Fazzini pulls together small groups of notes to create new ‘global forms’ and ‘sets’, while Fedrigo focuses on using intervals and spiral-forms, which he transforms into narrative architectures. Each instrument complicates the construction of the pieces facing with complex rhythms.
XY believes in ‘open content philosophy’ and makes both music and scores available on nusica.org website; this feature expresses and supports the constant ‘work in progress’ of the band.

To conclude, XY’s restructuring of the music form goes through the creation of the beyond-jazz.

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Scores

o1 Spazio Angusto (N. Fazzini)
> scores PDF

o2 Astronautilo (A. Fedrigo)
> scores PDF

o3 H2O (N. Fazzini)
> scores PDF

o4 Cancellazioni (A. Fedrigo)
> scores PDF

o5 Jon Futuru (A. Fedrigo)
> scores PDF

o6 Doppio Sogno (N. Fazzini)
> scores PDF

o7 Tatami (N. Fazzini)
> scores PDF

o8 Futuritmi (A. Fedrigo)
> scores PDF

Reviews

Reviews

July 2015
>Enrico Bettinello Interview on Musica Jazz


July 2015
>Antonino Di Vita on Jazzit


June 2015
>Alceste Ayroldi on Jazzitalia


March 2015
> Serge Baudot on Le Jazz à Baudot


March 2015
> Serge Baudot on Jazz Hot


09 February 2015
> Tom Hull on Latest Notebook Entries


January 2015
> Roberto D. Rush on Cadence Magazine


28 November 2014
> Leonid Auksern on JazzQuad


November 2014
> Neri Pollastri on Musica Jazz


27 October 2014
> Gerlando Gatto on A Proposito di Jazz


09 October 2014
> Gianni Montano on Jazzconvention


October 2014
> Marco Maimeri on JazzColours


20 September 2014
> Guido Festinese on Alias-Il Manifesto


29 August 2014
> Vincenzo Roggero on All About Jazz Italia


23 July 2014
> Alceste Ayroldi on Jazzitalia


23 July 2014
> Niccolò Carli on Free Fall Jazz


08 July 2014
> Giuseppe Mavilla on Scrivere di Jazz


07 July 2014
> Enrico Bettinello on Il Giornale della Musica


01 July 2014
> Claudio Morandini on Iperboli Ellissi


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