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Andrea Vicari remains one of the most optimistic of contemporary pianists, with her jaunty piano style and rich and allusive writing which pushes into darker areas than initial gloss suggests.
"An absorbing CD - the sort you'll keep going back to.”
JazzUK magazine Feb 2008
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Andrea Vicari remains one of the most optimistic of contemporary pianists, with her jaunty piano style and rich and allusive writing which pushes into darker areas than initial gloss suggests. And for her 2007 album Mango Tango she assembled an intriguing band.
Mango Tango features the saxophone playing of Pete Wareham (Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear fame) with the peerless Steve Waterman on trumpet, regular bassist Dorian Lockett and newcomer and rising star James Maddren on drums. Although Vicari has worked successfully with larger outfits, this quintet has the varied voices and built in paradoxes that also reflect her eclectic writing.
Track Listing
- Cafe Calypso
- Mango Tango
- Bar Kinito
- Le Flambeur
- So Bigtime
- Counting Minutes
- Push Back
- Fallout
- Bavarde
- The Golden Gate
“A conventional-enough quintet of trumpet, saxophone and rhythm section, but it would be a great injustice to regard Andrea Vicari's
new CD as a routine jazz exercise. For one thing, there are ten ear-catching original pieces by the leader, ably interpreted by a fine band. For another, Andrea Vicari's own playing is a constant delight - intense, probing, and generating a seemingly endless succession of ideas. The stylistic contrast between Steve Waterman's trumpet and Pete Wareham's sax playing is also productive, with the former delivering strong, fluent solos in a predominantly hard-hop idiom, while the latter (as listeners to Acoustic Ladyland would expect) tends to explore the harmonic 'outside', as on the lively 'So Bigtime'. Then
again, the very next track, 'Counting Minutes', is a gentle, reflective piece. This is primarily a vehicle for Andrea Vicari's thoughtful piano playing, but the track also provides a chance for bassist Dorian Lockett and drummer James Maddren to display their empathy with the leader's ideas. An absorbing CD - the sort you'll keep going back to.”
JazzUK magazine Feb 2008
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