Release Date: 03 April 2026
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8054154650989
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Francesco Zampini is a young and talented Italian guitarist and composer making waves across his homeland and beyond. Soaked in the jazz guitar world of past and present masters, Zampini has internalised their playing to such an extent that he offers a new improvisational language. His long phrasing, pauses, pedal action, and obligatos endowed with a consequentiality that is not exactly common, where everything is transcribable and ineffable at the same time.
As the great masters have always said, "if you can make even difficult things look easy, you know your subject matter in depth and have a profound understanding of it." An apt statement on the mastery of Zampini's playing.
Somewhere, Everywhere features Francesco Zampini's own original compositions and one standard - 'I Hear A Rhapsody'. Intuitive support is provided by the young Italian bass player Michelangelo Scandroglio (a rising star in his own right), and renowned American drummer Jeff Ballard.
Francesco Zampini: guitar
Michelangelo Scandroglio: bass
Jeff Ballard: drums
Paolo Zampini: flute on 'Moonlight'
Recorded at Maxine Studio, Milan, September 12 and 13, 2025.
Mixed and mastered by Rinaldo Donati and Fabrizio Fini
Tracklisting
Art Pepper
Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Johnny Dyani
Joe Henderson
Enrico Pieranunzi, Michele Polga, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Mauro Beggio
McCoy Tyner
Kai Winding
Gretchen Parlato
Trio Ivoire (Hans Ludemann, Aly Keita & Christian Thome)
Oregon
His 'n' Hers (Judith O'Higgins & Dave O'Higgins)
Matthias Bublath
uroboro
Richard Spaven
Jim Snidero
