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Giammarco-Lande-Leveratto-Gatto: Love Ballads

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 1999

Love Ballads features the criminally under recognized pianist Art Lande along with saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco, drummer Roberto Gatto and bassist Piero Leveratto, performing a series of classic love ballads and two Lande originals. Periodically, Lande is prone to skirt the non-mainstream side of things but here performs wonderfully with his equally adept cohorts. Giammarco’s husky, corpulent sounding tenor performance on Gershwin’s “The Man I Love” is a throwback to the great’s of yesteryear ala Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. On ...