Rino Arbore Quartet - Suggestion from Space (2012)

Just to confirm that jazz hasn't closed itself in a box, Italian musicians show what they're capable of, even without holding the pastoral of the Mediterranean or the drone of the American-like mainstream in hand.
Rino Arbore has prepared a room full of new notes, both Nordic and underground . What is certain is that, nowhere does his birthplace and his Apulian experience transpire.
Suggestion From Space is written and played in the rock, rough enough in the nuances and glissandos of the leader's guitar, capable of creating crepuscular atmospheres in combination with the sumptuous periodare of Giorgio Vendola (" Suggestion From Space ", " World Effect " ) . He lets the swing go by launching the lashing trumpet full of arpeggios by Roy Nikolaisen (" Slapstick ") which strikes the punctual continuum of Gianlivio Liberti , capable of always new rhythmic solutions. It generates a ballad that is only apparently so (" Sognefjord") due to the unusual fabric on which it moves and to the textures that open and close between Vendola's mellow notes and Liberti's brushes, while Nikolaisen and the leader embroider to perfection and one counterpoints the other.
Arbore has a deep sense of storytelling and, thanks to the perfect interplay with his associates, he manages to tell his research on sounds with a firm and resolute voice, dosing the volume of his guitar, always with his back, but always audible and essential ( " Oopart ", " Now Miles "). He is not a suffocating leader: quite the contrary, but he paints and distills his sounds by amalgamating them, indeed immersing them now in Nikolaisen's trumpet, now backing the rhythm.
Undoubtedly a work that smells fresh, well thought out, which manages to be structurally complex and at the same time of immediate usability: qualities that few records can boast of having.