On Thursday 9 May at 8.30pm the Brescia pianist and composer Alberto Forino will present his album “Tiny Toys” released on 17 February 2023 and distributed by IRD and Believe at La Cascina Parco Gallo (Brescia). With him on stage are two Italian jazz talents also present on the album: Giulio Corini on double bass and Filippo Sala on drums.
“Alberto Forino’s trio declares its own vision full of stimuli. At the base there is a common feeling among the musicians, all coming from the Brescia-Bergamo area. Giulio Corini and Filippo Sala are already appreciated for their numerous appearances in many formations. Forino is a new name, although already active for years in a field that unravels between jazz, improvisation, academic music and music functional to the theatre. (..) A peculiar characteristic of the work is precisely the elastic and well-thought-out combination of the elements that make up each song, but also the happy sequence of the songs themselves, which overall builds the character and physiognomy of a shared narrative .”
– Giuseppe Segala on AllAbout Jazz
“Alberto Forino is a young pianist active in the jazz and contemporary music scene. The music he plays is ambitious, fusing advanced rhythmic sensibilities and innovative combinations in a traditional piano trio.”
– Kazune Hayata in JazzLife Magazine Japan
“Tiny Toys evidently revolves around the creation of compositions understood not in the traditional sense of the term nor even as plots. (..) This first work by the pianist from Brescia is a container of eventualities which contains within itself the seeds of a modus operandi of which It would be interesting to know future developments.”
– Gianni De Vincenzi on JazzEspresso
A fleeting listen to «Tiny Toys» is enough to understand that it does not reflect anything we had «seen» or heard before in the context of the standard trio-piano, there is no use of certain rules of engagement or certain «bignamini» ready to Use for skilled pianists. Rather, Fiorini demonstrates that he knows all the dynamics of twentieth-century jazz, regardless of the assembly kit useful for a piano trio project. (..) Forget for a few moments the worn-out idea of the piano trio in a provincial jazz club and think of kinetic jazz in its unstoppable evolution (…)
– Francesco Cataldo Verrina on DoppioJazz Magazine
