Paolo Botti Quintet

Paolo Botti Quintet: Leggende Metropolitane

by Glenn Astarita
December 1, 2000

Modern jazz viola performer Paolo Botti brings more good news from Italy with this thoroughly intriguing set titled, Leggende Metropolitane. Here, the Paolo Botti Quintet explores free-bop based themes in concert with pensive interludes and the leader’s multifarious and somewhat penetrating mode of execution on pieces such as “Isola Pedonale” and others. However, “Ora Di Punta” boasts a burgeoning 4/4 pulse in support of soprano saxophonist Alessandro Bosetti’s angular and fleeting lines, whereas Botti exhibits an expansive comprehension of the ...