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Vito Rezza and 5 after 4: Drums of Avila
by Raul d'Gama Rose
One conundrum that bedevils the jazz music industry is that oftentimes a critically acclaimed artist may not necessarily be as well known as he or she should. The work of Vito Rezza bears testimony to this unseemly fact. For instance, Drums of Avila (Alma 2004), now being reissued for the US market in 2008 is Vito Rezza and 5 after 4's fifth record. Enormously talented and a virtual legend in the world of percussion, Rezza is much in demand among ...
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Something Else!
You might read the artist name and album title and think this is a record of Italian music but, no, not exactly. 5AFTER4 is a rock-jazz outfit out of Toronto led by its drummer, Vito Rezza, and though Rezza was born in Italy, he's been in Canada for so long that a recent whirlwind trip to the country's historic capital was full of marvel to this transplanted North American musician. But like all serious musicians who are also composers, he ...
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