Alboran Trio - Near Gale"The classic acoustic jazz piano trio has experienced an amazing renaissance over the last few years, and
the Alboran Trio is a perfect example of this renaissance. It is the
ideal admixture of a disciplined, well-defined group sound and
individual musicians playing with a maximum of freedom. The trio
masterfully combines traditional jazz forms with elements of world
music, playing with an ease and surety in which the most basic ideas
dance hand in hand with the most complex. On their ACT debut CD, Meltemi,
pianist and composer Paolo Paliaga, bassist Dino Contenti, and drummer
Gigi Biolcati exhibit a timeless, stylistically open-ended jazz. In
this respect, with Near Gale nothing has changed. Sailing is Paolo
Paliaga’s second great passion – Meltemi are the strong, dry summer winds of the Aegean Sea, and Near Gale
is also borrowed from the sailor’s lingo. It indicates the range on the
Beaufort wind force scale shortly before a storm. A fresh Mediterranean
breeze, blowing warm and strong – the ideal metaphor for the Alboran
Trio’s music."
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