ReviewsAs with most drummer-led dates, there are plenty of trapset expositions... Drummers will want to keep an ear out for the upcoming Ernesto Cervini. A driving and dramatic modern mainstream affair... Cervini’s expanded session comes with a veritable palette of ideas, from slow and sultry ballads to fast and excited romps...Cervini is a complete musician... Both piano and drums stir the pot intuitively with a cohesive attack that echoes the energy that they wish to convey. They push and pull enthusiastically while synchronizing their rhythmic zeal with crisp authority. Drummer Cervini and his quartet bring traditional values and fresh, new compositional and arranging ideas to the modern mainstream. Prodigiously talented multi-instrumentalist, Ernesto Cervini has written and arranged all of the material on this exceptional debut CD. (Here is) is a symbiotic musical landscape that purposefully features each talented member of the quartet. Cervini – who shines on the drums – is a composer of profound complexity and emotion. “Here” is certainly one of the most interesting jazz recordings of 2007, and Cervini is one of our most intriguing emerging young artists. Full of energy, Ernesto Cervini pushes the entire band with razor-sharp cymbal work and light but incisive drums. His energy is electrifying, but he does not overpower the proceedings, managing to be extremely tight without being loud. "Here" is a wonderful debut that showcases Cervini's monster chops and compositional abilities. (Cervini's) solos expand the melody and rhythm, and his passion and tasteful restraint should ensure a bright future. Cervini is propulsively active, creating textural and rhythmic tension at will, yet he dons a calm, subtly sophisticated hat for the album's three ballads. Ernesto Cervini, a former Torontonian currently living in New York was guest drummer. Tara and Ernesto played together in high school, twelve years ago. She says "He was eleven but looked about seven. He took off with the drum solo in "Sing, Sing, Sing" and the buzz started. Look what that little boy can do! " Now, people are saying what that drummer can do. Keep an ear out for all of these players. And it was indeed another great evening of jazz, perhaps rivaling that first concert. The evening began appropriately enough with the Phil Nimmons Massey Hall All Stars, featuring a young drummer who looked like he could have been wearing his high school uniform, Ernesto Cervini, who played marvelously. His drums were featured up front... Making a riotous finale, Cervini picked up a set of drumsticks and duetted with drummer Nick Shao and the band in an explosive performance of 'Sing, Sing, Sing.' If there had been room on the theatre floor, for sure everyone would have been jiving and jitterbugging Joanna Manning - Port Colbourne Tribune
Entire Article Other articles of interestA feature article about me in the University of Toronto (Hart House) Music Magazine, called Demo. Read the article here. 2-part article in the June 21st, 2007 edition of the Toronto Star (Travel Section) about New York Jazz clubs. Read the articles here and here. March 2007 Edition of All About Jazz's "Listen Up!" Section. Read the article here. Toronto Star - What's On section. February 22nd, 2007. Read the article here. IAJE Canada (Fall '99) Bulletin |