Accorsi studied in Milan at the Conservatoire Giuseppe Verdi before moving to London's Trinity Laban (PGDip) before completing an Mmus at Goldsmith's.
Accorsi is an accomplished and inventive saxophonist who also sings rather well. However, going on the evidence of this and her 2020 debut album The Cutty Sark Suite, her true forté may be as an impressionist jazz composer. This in no way denigrates her instrumental or vocal skills. As a sax player she can hold her own alongside the best, there's some wild soprano playing on both of her albums that could well point one or two of the current whiz kids in the direction of the exit whilst the vocal moments have a poetic charm about them.
In her first album she painted a musical landscape of the Cutty Sark's journey from Shanghai to London with each movement depicting a part of that journey.
Now resident in Sussex, where she gigs and teaches, Growing Roots is inspired by pictures of six of her favourite places in Brighton: a stained glass window in the Royal Pavilion, the seaside, her partner Andrea, Rottingdean, the Prince Albert pub and more sea.
The quartet gel as one. Hewson providing excellent accompaniment and sound solos. Hamill impressive on both electric and acoustic bass with MacDonald handling the changing moods with the same aplomb as he did aboard the Cutty Sark. Lance
Ampollo; Looking at the Horizon; Like a Tree; King Arthur Walks in Rottingdean; Lively House; Blue Wave.
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