I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Scenery In My Story, from Zhengtao Pan, and it's interesting and adventuresome. Opening with Windy Days, a moody, orchestral type composition, featuring Itai Kriss on flute, Andrea Guerrini on trumpet, Massimo Morganti on trombone, Chen Wang on guitar, Manuel Trabucco and Jesse McGinty on sax, Isamu McGregor on piano, Zhengtao Pan on bass and Federico Gucciardo on drums, this is a comprehensive opening. City Machine opens with a super drum rhythm by Gucciardo and McGrego on keys. With a super fusion/orchestral blend and aggressive layering of bass by Noah Justice, Sax by Trabucco and McGinty, Wang on guitar, Morganti with a hot solo on trombone, Nick Frenay with a real nice trumpet solo, and Pierpaolo Pecoriello on flute, this is one of my favorite tracks on the release. Nardis is an up tempo track with hot brass courtesy of Guerrini and Morganti and and wailing sax by Trabucco and McGinty. Pan adds keys and bass and Gucciardo is tight on drums. Very cool. Wrapping the release is title track, Scenery In My Story, another broadly orchestral piece painting a sonic landscape. With McGinty on flute and bass clarinet, Guerinni on trumpet, Trabucco on sax, McGregor on piano, and Ross Pederson on drums, this is a composers closer.
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