Mattia Cigalini - Beyond (2013)

Is it jazz? Is it rock? Is it pop? It’s hard to find an answer. It is most definitely a work that furthers the capacity of jazz to encompass and reinterpret all languages of music. In any case, the title tells a lot. “Beyond” means “farther”, and Mattia Cigalini and his band (Bebo Ferra on guitar, Riccardo Fioravanti on bass and Stefano Bagnoli on drums) truly push themselves far and manage to find a surprising point of touchdown between jazz and pop-rock of the last 10 years.