GIANNI GEBBIA SOLO
Alto saxophone
" The italian saxophone player Gianni Gebbia is a homo novus on the free music scene. He has a brilliant tecnique and uses different reeds instruments special mouthpieces and overtones singing inside the body of the saxophone.His playing is going all trough the history of saxophone:fast be boppish licks, cool gestures and strange sounds are coming out of his instrument in a clear and effortless way. A name to keep in our minds for the future." Reiner Kobe " Total music 90 " in Jazz podium 1/91
" Gianni Gebbia takes off his saxophone some interesting new sounds and tones. His solo performance was full of vivid sounds and sudden changes." Michael Rieth " Der risiko der Freiheit " Frankfurter rundschau 12.11.90 " Some jazz dissidents are taking new inspirations out of folk roots.It's the case of Gianni Gebbia that we saw at the last Total Music Meeting in Berlin." Ellen Brandt ,Tagesspiegel Berlin
" Everything: from free masters,radical improvisation,ney flute music to unknown ethnical masters comes out in Gianni Gebbia solo with a kind of circular ring shape plus a special mediterranean attractive." Marco Boccitto
liner notes for Angelica Festival Bologna 1991
" Gianni Gebbia has shown to us a 45 degrees burning versions of Evan Parker kind of solo art."
Markus Muller in Jazzthetik 94
" Gianni Gebbia put together 45 minutes of perfect solo playing with a lot of organic-like structures and tone variations."
Stefano Zenni in Musica Jazz 94
" Gianni Gebbia is provocating the listener since the first notes.The cover of his solo cassette is made with pieces of meccano and corresponds perfectly to his music: a patient construction of simple pieces that slowly goes to his place........."
Philippe Renaud in Improjazz june 95
" A saxophone trip, a discovery of mind and memory,an hypno-imaginary folk with continuous breath and post free kaleidoscopic flights.Immense ! "
Luigi Onori / Extra il Manifesto 1996
" Gebbia is a very intense and passionate player with a brusque gawky sound. His music is based on repetitive textures and bluntly juxtaposed passages of noise and near silence.
He seems to have taken up the challenge posed by Braxton and Evan Parker,not so much in sound as in his approach to structure. He's conscious too that Sicily marks the southernmost point of continental Europe and as such marks at least a metaphoric refocus of the whole diffused mediterranean tradition. "
Brian Morton,The Wire March 1994
" Sound deconstructions as in a futuristic launeddas player pushed to the extreme limits of sounds ! "
World Music magazine 1996
" A saxophonistic trip into Jorge Luis Borges kind of imaginary worlds where Time is suspended and everything happens:
double-triple sounds, infinite circles, launeddas type of melodies........"
Alberto Bonanno in Il Mediterraneo 1996