Angelo Mastronardi

”Its volatile energy is directed laterally fa more than cyclically. It, too could easily be identified as something coming from NYC as Italy...this is music that sticks to sunny tone and chipper disposition” David Sumner - Bird is The Worm

“Mastronardi is not simply virtuosic, because in his fingers both academic studies and a visceral passion for improvisation resound, with a gentle and careful use of the left hand and crystalline notes that flow from the right” Alceste Ayroldi - MUSIC JAZZ magazine 2015

“A polychrome work, dedicated to researched linguistic and structural inventions” Antonio Di Vita - JAZZIT magazine 2015

“Under the banner of melody this discographic debut of the pianist and composer Angelo Mastronardi flanked by the double bass player Michele Maggi and the drummer Walter Forestiere

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”Its volatile energy is directed laterally fa more than cyclically. It, too could easily be identified as something coming from NYC as Italy...this is music that sticks to sunny tone and chipper disposition” David Sumner - Bird is The Worm

“Mastronardi is not simply virtuosic, because in his fingers both academic studies and a visceral passion for improvisation resound, with a gentle and careful use of the left hand and crystalline notes that flow from the right” Alceste Ayroldi - MUSIC JAZZ magazine 2015

“A polychrome work, dedicated to researched linguistic and structural inventions” Antonio Di Vita - JAZZIT magazine 2015

“Under the banner of melody this discographic debut of the pianist and composer Angelo Mastronardi flanked by the double bass player Michele Maggi and the drummer Walter Forestiere. The three present nine songs of which six originals to which three standards are added (... these three reinterpretations that the trio shows an absolute originality to highlight a full expressive and executive maturity (.....) the other pieces, mainly the result of Mastronardi alone, are appreciated both for that melodic research which was mentioned at the beginning and for the sense of the structure that is always well present (....) and above all a Mastronardi pianist of excellent stature (...) within an often improvised phrasing it is possible to identify echoes of “other” music to demonstrate the deep knowledge of matter from an artist who is easy to predict a bright future “ Gerlando Gatto - A Proposito di Jazz 2015

“The pianist released a new album in 2017 called New Things, Same Words. It’s a solid straight- ahead session, and sounds like it could source from NYC as easily as the pianist’s Gioia del Colle, Italy home turf. It’s got a free-flowing lyricism that displays plenty of activity...” (David Sumner - BirdistheWorm)

“Faithful to the line of the most modern jazz, capable of finding the most dynamic sounds but respectful of the tested modules of ballads, this work on behalf of the pianist Angelo Mastronardi is compact in the proposal of seven tracks linked by a common thread and in the solidity of the musicians ... Angelo Mastronardi has ample space in the first minutes of the introductory piece (which gives the title to the work) to let the best of himself be heard (an open and enveloping sound, an uncommon sense of lyricism), ... remarkable flexibility of the pianist, evidently gifted with great quality but able to share spaces with traveling companions ..... New Things, Same Words is completed in a circular way by gathering in itself the essential and vital extracts of jazz, excellent proof of a quartet of absolute excellence. “ Sergio Spada - Jazz Convention 2017

“Themes proposed, always singable, capable of drawing sound pictures that oscillate between accentuated timbral dynamics and ballad passages” Eugenio Mirti - JAZZIT 2017

“With “Rough Line” Angelo Mastronardi, his third album as a leader, demonstrates an original and mature piano style and a solid compositional sensitivity, capable of bringing together tradition and experimentation in a balanced way” (JAZZIT Magazine - F. Caruso)

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