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Marco Bolfelli
After completing his conservatory studies in Italy, in 2015 he moved to Boston to attend Berklee College Of Music on a scholarship, graduating Summa Cum Laude by the following year.
His first release Streamflow (2014), featuring ECM recording artist Klaus Gesing on reeds, was reviewed as “a hugely impressive and satisfying affair” by All About Jazz and “a very rewarding listening experience” by Jazz Times.
Since moving to New York in 2017, he has played with a diverse number of artists, such as the late jazz vocalist Marlene VerPlanck, and Ghanaian musician and film director Blitz The Ambassador.
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Zac Carson: Something from Before
by Geno Thackara
While Something from Before is an affair rooted in the immediate past--Zac Carson's pieces are based on snapshots of his own life from the preceding few years, and it was made just at the end of the pre-pandemic world--it is not limited to that “before" by any means. The bassist has a beautifully inclusive style which draws more on modern elements than classic. There is as much jam-band sunshine and underground rock as bouncy jazz in here, and the whole ...
read moreMarco Bolfelli Trio: Streamflow
by Budd Kopman
Streamflow is a very strong debut recording from guitarist Marco Bolfelli and his almost telepathic trio partners Simone Serafini on bass and Igor Checchini on drums. Reedman Klaus Gesing (bass clarinet and soprano sax), one of Bolfelli's mentors, appears on four of the eleven tracks. Bolfelli gets composer credits as well for all tracks except “Finisterre," which is an wonderful overdubbed improvisation by Gesing. His music has soft edges even when his guitar sound enters the overdriven zone. ...
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by Roger Farbey
The scintillating “Madiba" (Nelson Mandela's Xhosa clan name) opens up this set with a cascade of fluidly chiming harmonics. Developing at a moderate pace, it's a haunting celebration of a uniquely inspiring leader. “70pic" signals that the nearest equivalent to Bolfelli's playing might be that produced by virtuoso Bill Frisell, both chordally and melodically with characteristic interrogatively bending notes that so nearly describe the glissando of a pedal steel guitar. On “Nekar" the trio is joined by guest Klaus Gesing ...
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