MARZIO SCHOLTEN QUARTET | Stellwerk | Harburg Magazin Kultur

MARZIO SCHOLTEN QUARTET | Stellwerk

6. Februar 2010 | Von netsamurai | Kategorie: Bewegungsmelder, Konzerte, VORSCHAU

Marzio Scholten

Marzio Scholten (guit), Tony Roe (p), Lucas Dols (b), Bob Roos (dr)

AUDIO | MARZIO SCHOLTEN QUARTET – Motherland [ excerpt ]

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The MARZIO SCHOLTEN QUARTET

exists of great musicians from the new generation of Dutch jazz musicians, who make this contemporary jazz sound as if it was invented yesterday. The quartet mainly presents compositions by the band leader. These compositions are characterized by beautiful melodies, playful sounds and rhythms, and improvisation. Growing up in modern times, the young musicians in this band mix modern jazz with elements of pop/rock. The style of the Marzio Scholten Quartet can be best described as ‘modern creative jazz’.

In 2006 Marzio Scholten graduated cum laude at the prestigious Conservatory of Amsterdam (where Marzio followed workshops by a.o. Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, Pat Martino, John Clayton, Chris Potter, Bill Stewart, Bobby McFerrin, Richard Bona and Mike Stern).

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VIDEO | Marzio Scholten Quartet – The End Of An Era | Amsterdam, June 22, 2008

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It is not often that a young jazzmusician, on his debut CD, presents himself with as much musical ripeness as guitarplayer Marzio Scholten does on his ‘Motherland’. In the first place there are the eight own compositions, each of them well wrought and elaborated with a different atmosphere and colouring. The broad emotional canvas is the most remarkable thing in Marzio Scholten’s debut. As a soloist he is a strikingly strong storyteller, with a subtle feel for melody, who can handle pure poetry (‘On the first day of spring’), melancholy (‘The end of an era’) as well as a delicious todaygroove (‘300 Miles’).

No surprise that starguitarplayer Jesse van Ruller, in his liner notes for ‘Motherland’, notes influences from Pat Metheny as well as John Scofield and Jimmy Raney. This is serious young jazz of today, sensitive, beautiful and intense. By an excellent quartet in which Scholten offers equal chances for all of the musicians and beautifully phrases lines together with reedman Floris van der Vlugt. ( Bert Jansma )

On this very first recording of Marzio he presents himself as jazz guitarist with a broad approach to jazz. Both in his compositions and improvisations I have associations with different generations of jazz guitar masters like Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, John Scofield and Jimmy Raney, but also clearly the influence of what else has been going on in pop music for the last 20-30 years.

You can hear fusion, jazzrock, pop and bebop combined with the warmth of an acoustic group coming together in what you could call an acoustic-fusion group. That’s what I like about this album; it’s definitely music from this time. Furthermore, nothing but big compliments to the other musicians, great soloing, great groove. This band deserves the chance to musically connect even more by getting a lot of playing opportunities. ( Jesse van Ruller )

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