Indigo4

Gianluca Petrella | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000E5LFF0
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #332,443 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Trinkle, Tinkle [Jazz Remix]

2. The Middleman

3. Lazy Moon

4. Mr. Wolf

5. Sacred Whale

6. I Got It Bad

7. Mood Indigo

8. Two in a Hole

9. There Comes a Time

10. Stockholm 64

11. I.S.T.R.

12. A Relaxing Place on Venus

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very smart modern European jazz, May 5, 2006

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Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indigo4 (Audio CD)

These guys prove that lots of exciting things are going down in the European jazz scene. Besides ESB, Thomas Stanko, his Trio, lots of other ECM stuff, and Bugge Wesseltoff, there's a thriving, forward-looking community of improvisers in Italy, whose music is faithfully documented on avant-garde labels like Splasc(h) and occasionally finds its way to more mainstream outfits such as Blue Note.

This quartet disc headed by trombonist Gianluca Petrella showcases the Italian New Thing in a very attractive setting. Using such devices as delays, live electronics and samples, and jazz-punkish approaches to sound engineering and imaging (a la the Bad Plus), Indigo4 lays down an attractive, modern soundscape. Map onto that some very attractive reworking of standards (Monk's "Trinkle Tinkle" and Ellington's "I Got It Bad," a bass-trombone duet that astounds, and "Mood Indigo," also highly creative but in a more conventionally deconstructionist way), some killer original tunes, and brilliant playing from the four band members (Petrella, trombone, live electronics, and samples; Francesco Bearzatti, tenor sax and clarinet; Paolino Della Porta, bass; and Favio Accardi, drums) and you have a jazz disc to be reckoned with. The only stumble, and it's a slight one, is the tune "Sacred Whale," which tends to lumber, drag, and meander, although it almost comes together about midway through with a stinging tenor solo over some quite evocative whalelike electronics.

All in all, I'm very taken by this effort, and I look forward to hearing more music from this distinguished and original outfit.

4.0 out of 5 stars Stockholm 64 - a must-have track, June 10, 2011

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G Filippis "AnObserver" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Indigo4 (Audio CD)

Most of the album might be of a style of jazz that is an 'acquired taste', shall I say. However, 'Stockholm 64' is fantastic - one of my favourite jazz tracks.

5.0 out of 5 stars A great Italian voice at the trombone, February 8, 2008

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B. Monica (Italy) - See all my reviews
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Gianluca Petrella is an impressing Italian artist in the jazz scene.
Indigo 4 is an awesome example of his original ideas and great talent in execution.
I highly recommend to listen to his music in a live performance. He is just incredible.
Monica