Jazz dance pioneer Gerardo Frisina returns with brilliant new rhythmic album ‘Moving Ahead’

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Jazz dance pioneer Gerardo Frisina returns with brilliant new rhythmic album ‘Moving Ahead’

For over the last 20 years, Italian musician and producer Gerardo Frisina has been at the forefront of some of the best jazz dance recordings of this century, blending together jazz melodies with Latin, African, Brazilian, deep house rhythms and more. He returns with quite possibly his most complete album to date in Moving Ahead.

As with all his previous recordings, this new 12-track double LP (bonus tracks available digitally) is released on the Milan-based Schema label, and is centered around highly rhythmic percussion patterns, and continues to expand on the global influences and sounds that have been present on many of Frisina’s other recordings including funky Latin jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, dub vibes, and electronic music beats.

Written, produced, and arranged by Frisina, the album also features Gendrickson Mena (trumpet), Ernesto Lopez (drums and percussion), Alfonso Deidda (baritone sax, ﬂute) and Fabrizio Bernasconi (piano, Fender Rhodes). The session also includes Haruna Kuyateh, a young Gambian kora player that Frisina discovered performing on the streets of Milan. He contributes to three of the record’s standout tracks, including “Naihi”, “Naihi’s Son” and “Kerewan”.

From start to finish, Moving Ahead is absolutely brilliant, and quite possibly Frisina’s greatest full-length recording to date. Even after 20 years, the jazz dance pioneer continues to refine his own unique sound and push the music to new heights.