(Screenshots by Ken Drew).
Difficult one for me. It really needed a guitar specialist to elaborate on the technical aspects which, at times, were quite amazing. Forcione is a brilliant and possibly unique guitarist in the way he merges the music of so many cultures - Italian, African, Brazilian, Spanish, Portuguese, Cuban - and presents the end product as jazz. Which it most certainly is, possibly subtitled world jazz.
Opening with an unaccompanied Heartbeat it became obvious that this man's technique was his own as he played some fantastic things with both hands on the fretboard faraway from the soundhole.
It became more conventional, although no less compelling, when his paisanos joined him. Nova on acoustic bass guitar and Santana on a variety of hitters and shakers.
Antonio has many fans at home and abroad. It's always interesting to keep an eye on the YouTube numbers. It's like how, back in the pre-digital age, we would judge the state of the parties on the night of the General Election by the Swingometer.
Tonight's performance had the YouTube audience peaking at 964 with about 70 of them liking it. As there were no dislikes one must assume the other 894 were just too shy. However, had this been back in the days of live audiences the crowd would have been on their feet shouting for more - emojis don't quite have the same effect!
Lance
Heartbeat: Madiba's Jive; Tar; Tiramasu; Stay Forever; A Tempo; Tarifa; Havana; Marishka's Party; Africa.
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