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Follow on Google News | Alessandro Bottura's "Morning Grooves" CD Now Available On Itunes and CDBaby.comAlessandro Bottura has released his new CD entitled "Morning Grooves", featuring his #1 single "Stern Memories." Nine fusion songs of rock, jazz, and pop instrumentals, including "Mind, Passion, And Instinct" for the "Jazz Channel" of Outbound Radio
By: Bottabass "Funk, Rock, Pop and Jazz all mixed up in this first album by Italian bass player Alessandro Bottura; a 9-track instrumental journey in a Fusion experience that learns from masters such as Weather Report, Yellowjackets, Rippingtons, Spyro Gyra and MM&W." -CDBaby- http://www.radioindy.com/ This is the review appeared on 9th June 2009 on the italian webzine "Mescalina.it" "Bottura is a really young italian multi-instrumentalist (born 1984) with solid musical bases built with harmony, drums, guitar, piano and electric bass studies. This kaleidoscopic preparation allowed him to compose, product and realize all by himself this work that can be collocated into Fusion music area. The broad spectrum of responsibilities assumed by the musician is a strong signal of his competences, character and potentials. On the other hand, the multi-disciplinary orientation of the single author determines the main limits of the work; it's difficult to do everything at the top level and, above all, impossible to avoid the risk of a certain homogenity of the instrumental parts. Compositions signal a rhythmic sensibility based on Jazz and Funk, with a fondness for syncopated and rubato merged fluidly with rolled passages. The choice of duration is orientated to mid-tempo, to create that typical cadencial schemes in which beat and upbeat are really clear and sometimes too regular. The melodies are mainly exposed by piano and guitar that introduce the themes leaving then to the bass a series of beats for the variations. In this phase we've got the best from the artist, that evaluates his main instrument with interventions that recalls Pastorius or Clarke (or many others, starting from Weather Report). The tunes' structure often recall the classical scheme AABA; the melodies evoke different influences, from Latin to Progressive, from New Age to Blues; anyway, these ingredients never predominate in a decisive way and after all it conserves an after-taste centred on jazz rock (or rock jazz, it depends..). The whole work result sometimes a little too much homogeneous and self-referenced, without the unpredictability that's the main flavour of this genre. Anyway, lights certainly prevails on shadows; the work must be considered as a really important expression of potentials that will transform into effective performance when the artist will be able to exploit his knowledges synergically united with others" - Vittorio Formenti for "Mescalina.it" RadioIndy is pleased to present Alessandro Bottura with a GrIndie Award for the CD "Morning Grooves" Jaco Pastorius would be proud to hear the bass chops of jazz artist Alessandro Bottura. His latest record, "Morning Grooves" is a smooth fusion of rock, jazz, and pop instrumentals all rolled into one amazing sound. Bottura's bass playing speaks for itself and is immediately evident right from the opening track, "Out of Sight." His jazz fueled bass runs fly up and down the neck and are nicely driven by some outstanding guitar/drum work. Bottura changes gears a bit and slow things down on "Sweet Tears," which also highlights his staccato playing skills. Any fan of Jaco Pastorius or of virtuoso bass playing will love this album, plus the band behind Bottura is just as exceptional as he. -Shaun H. and the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team Check out Alessandro Bottura 's music on RadioIndy.com with link to purchase and links to popular sites End
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