Zampini, Francesco
Somewhere, Everywhere
The Tuscan guitarist does not imitate Bill Frisell, Umberto Fiorentino, or John Abercrombie, just to give a sense of the atmosphere, but has internalized their lessons to such an extent that he offers a new improvisational language. On the one hand, he builds embellishments mainly on pull-offs and legato; on the other, he enhances the potential beauty of the guitar fretboard by exploiting its horizontality. The result of his objective virtuosity, which is never flaunted, benefits the cantabile, even when the melodies climb over dissonances and clusters. 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. The long phrasing, pauses, pedals, and obbligatos are endowed with a consequentiality that is not exactly common, where everything is transcribable and ineffable at the same time.