Xavi Torres

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Jasper H?iby: Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight

Read "Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight" reviewed by Andrew Hunter

by Andrew Hunter
September 9, 2025

Fellow Creatures is the band that bassist Jasper Høiby has assembled around himself and they are clearly a talented bunch. They would have to be, to revisit material from H?iby's previous band, Phronesis. That trio of H?iby, Anton Eger and Ivo Neame were almost hyperbolically highly regarded. A quick internet search will show how well reviewed they were, not only amongst the jazz cognoscenti, but also in the mainstream media. Much of the material on this record was ...

Album Review

Sam Newbould: Homing

by Dan Bilawsky
July 22, 2024

England-born, Netherlands-based alto saxophonist Sam Newbould uses the title of his third album to directly reference his temporary adoption of a Polish homing pigeon. But in a broader sense, Homing is about a man's pursuit to pinpoint his identity as an artist abroad. Zeroing in on that subject with clarity, sophistication, smarts, humor and a slanted tunefulness all his own, Newbould folds everything neatly into his own findings and takes listeners along for a compelling ride. Leading ...

Album Review

Francesco Zampini: Unknown Path

Read "Unknown Path" reviewed by Luigi Sforza

by Luigi Sforza
January 27, 2021

Per questo secondo disco da leader, il giovane chitarrista e compositore fiorentino Francesco Zampini (classe 1993) guida un vigoroso quintetto che comprende un'infuocata, solida e muscolosa sezione ritmica (Michelangelo Scandroglio al contrabbasso e Bernardo Guerra alla batteria), un vulcanico e possente pianista, l'iberico Xavi Torres, e il russo Alex Sipiagin, che alla tromba incanta per il suo suono abbagliante, splendente e carezzevole insieme, qualit�� quest'ultima rintracciabile specie quando suona nel registro medio. A confronto con brani originali ed ...