Giacinto Piracci

Born: June 9, 1974

Giacinto Piracci, born in Naples, in 1974. At the age of 14 starts studying the guitar, with a teacher for a short period, and continuing self-taught. His musical interests focus mainly on Rock, playing with small local bands, then moving to Jazz, practicing for a few months before starting classical studies, new passion. He achieves in year 2000 the Degree in Classical Guitar and in 2005 the Degree in Jazz Music at the Conservatory of Naples, with top marks and praise.

In 2004 takes part at the Jazz clinics in Siena (Siena Jazz) where he studies with Enrico Rava, Pietro Tonolo, Massimo Manzi, Tomaso Lama and other teachers, winning a scholarship to rapresent Italy, with another student, at the I.A.S.J (International Association Schools of Jazz) meeting in Krakow in 2005, under the direction of Dave Liebman.

Persistence

By Steve Knight

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Suspects; Cisco; Real Type Thing; Sharps Disposal; Persistence; Chop Chop; Just Add Meaning; Mary Janes' Last Dance; Art's Rant; Workshop; Change the World; Sharps Disposal (alternate take).

Persistence

By Michael Weiss

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Persistence; Second Thoughts; Apres Vous; Only the Lonely; Jitterbug Waltz; Epistrophy; Once I Loved; Birthday Blues.

Steve Knight: Persistence

by Jack Bowers
August 11, 2022

Yet another guitar-led trio, this one by Kansas-born, Chicago-based Steve Knight who also writes in the manner of one of his role models, George Benson (Knight composed seven of the album's dozen numbers including two versions of “Sharps Disposal"). Although the recording's title refers in part to the eighteen months it took Knight to write the ...

Steve Knight: Persistence

by Richard J Salvucci
August 8, 2022

Readers have surely heard of a “sniff test." It is an informal assessment that something, particularly in finance, just does not look right. It is usually intuitive rather than formal. But many analysts employ one before turning to more elaborate kinds of examinations to verify their suspicions. Music has no sniff test, but it ...

Michael Weiss: Persistence

by Edward Blanco
March 6, 2022

An in-demand veteran of the vibrant New York jazz scene since the '80s, pianist Michael Weiss presents the warm and engaging Persistence, his fifth as a leader and first on the Cellar Live label, as well as being his first since the critically acclaimed Soul Journey, (Sintra Records, 2003). The long time span between recordings, despite ...

Amina Figarova: Persistence

by Maurizio Zerbo
April 27, 2021

Il pregio della variet�� sostanzia la cifra artistica della pianista Amina Figarova, non circoscritta entro i soli confini del jazz. Dopo il progetto orchestrale del penultimo CD, la musicista azera residente a New York apre la finestra del suo etereo pensiero compositivo verso i territori della fusion, del funk, del rap. Da queste premesse discende un ...

Persistence

By Amina Figarova

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Persistence; I've Got No Time; Lil' Poem; Morning Blue; R Song; Horizons; Bliss.

Amina Figarova: Persistence

by Edward Blanco
April 24, 2020

Veteran jazz pianist Amina Figarova embarks on a bold new step with her genre-bending Persistence, creating a new sound for the pianist with music that produces an electric-influenced groove mixing funk-jazz, jazz fusion, hip-hop, classical and R&B rhythms found on this new exploratory album. After two decades leading an acoustic sextet, her new quintet ensemble, Edition ...

Persistence

By Petar Krstajic

Label: Reservoir Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Persist; The Village; I Had the Craziest Dream; D Train Boogaloo; Haunted Heart; You and the Night and the Music; Ballad for Barretto; Soul Sister.