Agua Amarga
2000 · Altrisuoni (AS 061) · CD Album · Switzerland
Thomas Silvestri Quintet
Tracklist
- La Chance Du Onze
- Canone Rapido
- Agua Amarga
- PianoHoax
- L'Oracle Bleu
- Wooing
- Monkey's Birthday
Personnel & credits
- Dominique GirodBass
- Tony RenoldDrums
- Thomas SilvestriPiano
- Ewald HügleTenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- Michael GassmannTrumpet
About this record
Press
“a shimmering and compact piece of contemporary jazz”e-huegle.com (Ewald Huegle band/promotional page) ↗
Reception
No independent professional critical reviews of "Agua Amarga" (Thomas Silvestri Quintet, Altrisuoni AS 061, 2000) could be located. Searches across AllMusic, All About Jazz / All About Jazz Italia, JazzTimes, Down Beat, Musica Jazz, JazzConvention, Jazzitalia, and Swiss/German jazz press (jazz'n'more, jazzthing, Concerto) returned no dedicated review; AllMusic and All About Jazz have no entry for the album, and Discogs (the source of the catalog data) returned HTTP 403 to bots. The only substantive descriptive coverage is promotional/biographical text on a band member's page (saxophonist Ewald Huegle, e-huegle.com), which frames the record as seven Silvestri originals recorded in July with a wide harmonic, rhythmic and dramaturgical range, and characterizes the result as compact contemporary jazz alternating lyrical passages with tight, fast ensemble unisons. This is band-side promotional language, not arm's-length criticism. Beyond that, the album appears only as retailer/streaming catalog listings (Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, the Japanese used-CD shop Vento Azul) with no editorial review text. This is the expected outcome for a small Swiss independent-label date from 2000.
Background
Personnel (confirmed via aggregated catalog data and band-page text): Thomas Silvestri (piano, composition, leader), Michael Gassmann (trumpet), Ewald Huegle (tenor and soprano saxophone), Dominique Girod (bass), Tony Renold (drums). Label: Altrisuoni (AS 061), an independent Swiss jazz label founded 1993 (Romano Nardelli, Stefano Franchini, Christian Gilardi). Released 1 November 2000; ~49:50 runtime; seven Silvestri compositions: La chance du onze, Canone Rapido, Agua Amarga, Hoax, L'oracle bleu, Wooing, Monkey's Birthday. Promotional text states the recording was made in July (year not independently specified; no studio or producer name was located). A reissue/redistribution appears around 2009 in catalog listings. No studio, engineer, or producer credit could be independently verified.