As one well known critic puts
it, GRAMELOT’s folk-jazz is “fluid
and free, rippling between jazz, classical and
popular music, between regional and global, between
the ancient and modern world. It is a language
of jazz improvisation interwoven with popular
melodies, spoken with an ease and grace. It is
many “languages”, spoken as musical
expressions or idioms, which come together in
a world where the imagination shapes them into
new and old forms that are always intriguing”.
Guiducci has received acclaim
both from Italian critics, who voted him second
in Top Jazz’s classification of emerging
talents in Italy, and from abroad, with reviews
in leading specialist magazines including JAZZMAN
(France), ALL ABOUT JAZZ (Usa), CADENCE (Usa),
JAZZMAGAZINE (France), JAZZPODIUM (Germany), JAZZREVIEW
(UK).
Guiducci ‘s more relevant
works are the 4 cds for Felmay Label with his
Gramelot Ensemble : CANTADOR (2000) is the debut
album ; CHORALE (2002) with guest appearances
by the trumpeter Ralph Alessi and by the cellist
Erik Friedlander in addition to the GRAMELOT Quintet
opens a new chapter in “GRAMELOT’s”
recording history.This second work has an international
slant, with GUIDUCCI further exploring his flair
for a music with roots which very much come from
folklore, ; DANCIN’ ROOTS (2004) recorded
by Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble with some
relevant guest as clarinet player DON BYRON ,
trumpeter RALPH ALESSI and pianist ANDY MILNE
; STORIE DI FIUME (2006) ,
CHORALE came in at number six
in the 2002 best italian jazz record Top Ten,
voted by the panel of critics judging in the TOPJAZZ
classification of the specialist monthly magazine
Musica Jazz. The recording was also "Pick
of the Week " on the prestigious US portal
ALL ABOUT JAZZ.com (February 2003) and hit no.
2 (July 2003) in the JazzCharts of the KSZU radio
station (Stanford University). All About Jazz’s
editor Michael Ricci inserted Chorale between
his personal International TopTen for 2003 on
All About Jazz selection
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