Zishi Liu

Born: October 11, 1991

Zishi Liu is a Boston-based saxophonist and music curator. He made history as the first Chinese artist to play at Boston’s famed Regattabar in collaboration with Blue Note Jazz Club in 2025. His work has been featured by WGBH, contributing to the broader narrative of Asian representation in jazz.

As a performer and composer, Zishi’s music seeks to create and resolve new tensions between familiar and foreign themes. The melancholic aspects of Coltrane's later work—which incorporates Eastern concepts of meditation and emptiness—serve as a departure point for his music.

Giuseppe Paradiso

Giuseppe Paradiso is a drummer, recording artist and composer active both as a bandleader of MERIDIAN 71, a world-jazz music project based in Boston, as well as a freelance recording and live musician across different music genres. As a leader, Giuseppe has released three albums: Otherness Collection (2012), Metropolitan Sketches (2020), and the latest Parallel Dimensions (2022) under the UBUNTU MUSIC record label (UK). All albums feature his original compositions. Since 2021, Giuseppe is a voting member of the prestigious Recording Academy (Grammy- Awards). Born in Santeramo in Colle (Bari, Italy) in 1983, Giuseppe started his musical studies on drums at the age of five years old

Cross Culture

By Joe Lovano Us Five

Label: Kedar Entertainment Group
Released: 2013

Cross Culture

By Joe Lovano

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Blessings In May; 02. Myths and Legends; 03. Cross Culture; 04. In a Spin; 05. Star Crossed Lovers (Strayhorn/Ellington); 06. Journey Within; 07. Drum Chant; 08. Golden Horn; 09. Royal Roost; 10. Modern Man; 11. PM.

Joe Lovano US Five: Cross Culture

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 11, 2013

Oltre settantacinque minuti di musica, quasi al limite dello spazio fisico a disposizione, quando l'attuale tendenza �� quella di avvicinarsi alla durata dei vecchi long-playing. Manie di grandezza? Brani interminabili con altrettanto interminabili sequenze di assoli? Niente di tutto questo, perch�� Cross Culture ci pare il riuscito tentativo da parte di Joe Lovano di riunire in ...