Massimo Urbani
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A beautiful carnivorous flower. The expressive incontinence produces unbridled, impetuous music, at breakneck speed against the railings that cloister suburban townhouses. Italian jazz immediately understands that it cannot do without it
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Stefano Solventi, Sentireascoltare
«With Easy to Love (name that takes its title from the song of the same name by Cole Porter), the album by Massimo Urbani and recorded in Rome’s AT Sonic studios in January 1987, we are faced with a beautiful record, not only in the discography of the Roman saxophonist but also in the Italian jazz scene in general.
He plays in a way that is dynamic, whimsical, full of fury, thanks to four of the most captivating expressions of jazz of the 1980s: Urbani himself at the head of the brigade, Luca Flores at the piano, Furio di Castri (who with Urbani has lived many musical seasons since Di Castri’s arrival in Rome at the end of the 1970s. There was also authentic friendship between the two that ended only with the death of the Roman musician in 1993) on double bass, and Roberto Gatto on drums, ready to exalt themselves by pulling the sprint to Urbani’s sublime alto».
Caravan, Debaser
«Massimo Urbani was a flash that lit up the nights of Italian jazz. Gifted with pure talent and a fervent creative streak, he remains one of the greatest jazz musicians ever to appear in Italy. His musical culture was very vast, and Urbani was first influenced by Charlie Parker and, subsequently, by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, extraordinary innovators in the history of jazz and bearers, beyond the human story, of a strong spiritual vein. Urbani was a tormented musician, kissed by talent but totally inadequate to live a normal life».
Marco Giorgi
«With Easy to Love (name that takes its title from the song of the same name by Cole Porter), the album by Massimo Urbani and recorded in Rome’s AT Sonic studios in January 1987, we are faced with a beautiful record, not only in the discography of the Roman saxophonist but also in the Italian jazz scene in general.
He plays in a way that is dynamic, whimsical, full of fury, thanks to four of the most captivating expressions of jazz of the 1980s: Urbani himself at the head of the brigade, Luca Flores at the piano, Furio di Castri (who with Urbani has lived many musical seasons since Di Castri’s arrival in Rome at the end of the 1970s. There was also authentic friendship between the two that ended only with the death of the Roman musician in 1993) on double bass, and Roberto Gatto on drums, ready to exalt themselves by pulling the sprint to Urbani’s sublime alto».
Caravan, Debaser
«Massimo Urbani was a flash that lit up the nights of Italian jazz. Gifted with pure talent and a fervent creative streak, he remains one of the greatest jazz musicians ever to appear in Italy. His musical culture was very vast, and Urbani was first influenced by Charlie Parker and, subsequently, by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, extraordinary innovators in the history of jazz and bearers, beyond the human story, of a strong spiritual vein. Urbani was a tormented musician, kissed by talent but totally inadequate to live a normal life».
Marco Giorgi