WHO'S ALESSANDRO CAMPOBASSO?
Press
“A Jazz that, in contrast to the more structured and scripted drifts of contemporary styles, focuses instead on interaction and ensemble sound. […] In its six tracks The Imaginary Roads proves to be a record of great narrative coherence in which the leader succeeds, through his own imaginary paths, in tracing the contours of a brilliant contemporary language”
Campobasso acts as a demiurge and does so without overpowering the rich personalities of his acolytes, putting his visceral music on the plate, with a sprawling architecture that embraces the past of jazz without any shortsightedness; indeed, finishing everything with the characteristic features of the best overseas jazz that has been sifted through that creative Europe that is giving so much to improvised music.
Alessandro Campobasso, a young drummer and composer who can boast a rich jazz culture that he shows with both hands in this record, placing himself as a bridge between American culture and that of European extraction. The of him is a jazz that builds the foundations in the very structure of this music but that colors with the traits of its personality and Mediterranean cultural tradition.