“An impressive and engaging album with moments of great beauty” (Colors of Red Island)

     Bruce Lindsay – All About Jazz

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"This is a stand out project that is reminiscent of some of the best European improvised music that was first brought to North America by the likes of Jan Garbarek and Eberhard Weber. However, now it is the time of the Scolaris and Cavalca" (Colors of Red island)

      Raul d’Gama Rose - All About Jazz

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                 "Colorful and engaging" (Synthesis)               

  Eyal Hareuveni - All About Jazz

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"Claudio Scolari blends styles, blurs lines and makes compelling music throughout this impressive outing" (Synthesis)

Dan Bilanski – All About Jazz

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"Usually, a drum and the percussion take charge of accompaniment of a soloist. However, a drum and the percussion of their unit are the leading roles, and other musical instruments accompany a soloist. Their technique is excellent and there is trace of having studied the classic. Excellent work" (Colors of Red Island)

Shigeyo Hyodo - The JazzPage JAPAN

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"The new project by Italian musician Claudio Scolari is a fascinating mix of acoustic and electronic sounds creating an almost cinematic atmosphere" (Colors of Red Island)

Wilbert Sostre – Jazz Times

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"Mysterious, winding and nuanced, Colors of Red Island is soundtrack music to some imaginary movie. But I’d go to see the movie just to listen to the music" (Colors of Red Island)

Victor Aaron - Something Else

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"An experimental bent, which has evenly measured amount of free jazz or avant-garde inclinations, similar to some titles in the ECM catalog" (Synthesis)

Doug Simpson - Audiophile Audition

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"I love the CD! In true fashion for Claudio his music is a wonderful journey through space and time. Very well done" (Colors of Red Island)

Tlm Kiebzak – Beyond Bop Jazz Radio

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"Interesting album that pains widescreen lyrical backdrops, as in the prettier albums on ECM, and puts almost rock drumming over them" (Colors of Red Island)

Avant – jazz Radio

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"Recommended if you are looking for a different spin" (Colors of Red Island)

Gapplegate Music

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"It is an excellent recording, with fresh and inventive compositions and wonderful solos. The title track has been especially well-received by my listeners" (Colors of Red Island)

JazzFlight WQLN Radio

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"These are mysterious sounds we experience throughout Colors of Red Island, a powerful work that is engaging and enjoyable" (Colors of Red Island)

Oscar Groomes - O’s Place

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"It’s a great cd, very much in the ECM vein with some wonderful inventive music" (Colors of Red Island)

Mark Robinson – UK Jazz Radio

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"It's an album that one could "get lost in" and indulge in its richness and dynamism" (Natural Impulse)

The Jazz Music Blog

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"Throughout, these guys paint with a brilliant and tasty palette that will indeed make you smile" (Upside Down)

Peter Thelen - Exposè

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"The Claudio Scolari Project has found it’s own sound and style and it is now in a position to perform this music live" (Natural Impulse)

Michael Ferber - Michael's Jazz Blog

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"This is a trio of musicians going after an aesthetic that confidently combines improvisational and compositional sketches with folk, rock and modern jazz sensibilities" (Synthesis)

Paul Acquaro - The Free Jazz Collective

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"An interesting and unusual offer from Italy definitely deserves attention" (Upside Down)

Robert Ratajkzak - Long Play Recenzje (Poland)

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"It’s all executed in experimental and unpredictable ways on this fascinating effort that, amazingly, was recorded live in one shot" (Upside Down)

Take Effect Reviews

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"However, in the absence of a passionate but sharp tension, one can sense an harmoniously bent atmospheric calm" (Upside Down)

Jouko Kirstila - Jazz Rytmit (Finland)

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"This is a CD that has grown on me and one that I am enjoying immensely" (Natural Impulse)

Chris Baber - Jazz Views 

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"An intriguing album filled with a wealth of interesting new ideas. You have to give it a chance. It is the kind of album that gives more, the more you listen. Each new hearing leaves you more impressed not only with what Claudio Scolari's Project is trying to do, but what they have already managed to do" (Synthesis)

Jack Goodstein

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"All in all, Colors of Red Island represents an interesting project that highlights the moods, the call-and-responseness, naturalism, synthesized unnaturalism, movement, and scene-setting created by two accomplished drummers fascinated by the percussiveness of struck objects and by the subordinate sonic imitations from electronics" (Colors of Red Island)

Bill Donaldson - Cadence Magazine

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"A gentle, loving narrator, even when things get weird around him. Great!" (Natural Impulse)

Colozine (Germany)

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"Colors of Red Island is a fascinating mix of acoustic and electronic sounds creating an almost cinematic atmosphere" (Colors of Red Island)

Jazz and Bossa Review 

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"These three improvisational maestros pull in elements of jazz, blues, neo-classical and experimental into a brew that makes all those labels superfluous" (Natural Impulse)

Tom McCarter - Zookeeper (KZSU Stanford Radio) 

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"Stylistically there isn’t really a way to pin point what’s happening here which is part of the beauty, it’s modern and it’s most definitely Jazz!… and somewhere in their you’ll find slices of Be-Bop, Freeform, Classical and a distinctive Italian edge, there’s a warmth" (Synthesis)

Wesley Stephenson - Bebop Spoken Here