The CBG is one of the most exciting and adventurous bands from Amsterdam. This powerful group moves beautifully between the composed and improvised parts. Their music blends many different styles, traveling throughout improvised music, rock, jazz, folk, and contemporary music; outlining a truly new energetic postmodern style.
• "A great album! " - about their 3rd CD - All About Jazz (Italy)
• "It is a true pleasure to follow their improvisations" Culture jazz (France)
• " ... The musical contribution and virtuosity of the musicians blends in a refined and harmonious way’" Het Parool (Netherlands)
• "A great album! " - about their 3rd CD - All About Jazz (Italy)
• "It is a true pleasure to follow their improvisations" Culture jazz (France)
• " ... The musical contribution and virtuosity of the musicians blends in a refined and harmonious way’" Het Parool (Netherlands)
Listen to the band live at the Bimhuis broadcast by VPRO
Celano/Baggiani Group LIVE AT BIMHUIS featuring Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisiser.
(C/B Group) is able to steer their music in such a way that a transition from ballad to hard rock feels completely natural.
On one improvisation the C/B Group was leading the herd, it was fantastic: build up like thieves in the night, sneaking into a house - once inside and out of view they go completely wild, turning everything upside down, leaving a mess behind.
They mix structure with improvisation and have proven to be very good at it, in a sense that they connect virtuosity and musical knowledge with adventurousness.
Maartje den Breejen. Het Parool, 14/10 2011
(C/B Group) is able to steer their music in such a way that a transition from ballad to hard rock feels completely natural.
On one improvisation the C/B Group was leading the herd, it was fantastic: build up like thieves in the night, sneaking into a house - once inside and out of view they go completely wild, turning everything upside down, leaving a mess behind.
They mix structure with improvisation and have proven to be very good at it, in a sense that they connect virtuosity and musical knowledge with adventurousness.
Maartje den Breejen. Het Parool, 14/10 2011
Exciting and very musical cutting edge impro music”…Especially the music coming from both groups playing together had an enormously intense and qualitative feel. Celano’s tasteful and harmonious accompaniment using beautifully spacious chords, evoking an almost cinematic sound…add to that the modest though accurate bass playing of Schuster and
the varied drum play of Baggiani and the result is a remarkably musical and subtle rhythm-section for the most qualitative impro music.
This meeting was very successful…a real feast! Celano’s compositions were the perfect basis for the lyrical performance of Michael Moore and Ellery Eskelin as well as the intensive piano playing of Sylvie.
Draai om je oren, Jacques Los. 24 oktober 2011
the varied drum play of Baggiani and the result is a remarkably musical and subtle rhythm-section for the most qualitative impro music.
This meeting was very successful…a real feast! Celano’s compositions were the perfect basis for the lyrical performance of Michael Moore and Ellery Eskelin as well as the intensive piano playing of Sylvie.
Draai om je oren, Jacques Los. 24 oktober 2011
Celano/Baggiani Group LIVE AT PARADOX featuring Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisiser.
...the intensity blew everyone away from the very start.
The colorful compositions of the Celano/Baggiani Group were intrinsically humorous.
The sextet found themselves on the same wavelength almost immediately and at times things really came
together creating many goosebump moments...
The delighting contrasts in timbre of Moore and Eskelin, the well tuned tandem Courvoisier-Eskelin, the energizing
rhythms of Baggiani, Celano's broad palette of techniques and timbres; all these characteristics transformed the meeting of two bands into a great musical night, a succes.
Tim Sprangers - Volkskrant. Live at Paradox. 7 oktober 2011
...the intensity blew everyone away from the very start.
The colorful compositions of the Celano/Baggiani Group were intrinsically humorous.
The sextet found themselves on the same wavelength almost immediately and at times things really came
together creating many goosebump moments...
The delighting contrasts in timbre of Moore and Eskelin, the well tuned tandem Courvoisier-Eskelin, the energizing
rhythms of Baggiani, Celano's broad palette of techniques and timbres; all these characteristics transformed the meeting of two bands into a great musical night, a succes.
Tim Sprangers - Volkskrant. Live at Paradox. 7 oktober 2011
Original use of sound. CB Group keeps on being surprising
***** (5/5) Ken Vos - Jazzism, may/june 2011
....all the pieces create intensely melodic, unobvious structures for improvisation.
A.Hamilton - The wire - United Kingdom, October 2011
"...the Celano/Baggiani Group has proven to be a vital and playful quintet with a surprisingly clear sound"
Mischa Andriessen - Jazzmozaïek 3/2011 - Wilrijk- Antwerpen, Belgium
"Alienology is a very interesting album...a quintet running outside the stylistic canons, with flavor to free jazz. The quintet develop a sound that is coherent and very well delineated"
All about jazz - Roberto Paviglianiti – may 2011
***** (5/5) Ken Vos - Jazzism, may/june 2011
....all the pieces create intensely melodic, unobvious structures for improvisation.
A.Hamilton - The wire - United Kingdom, October 2011
"...the Celano/Baggiani Group has proven to be a vital and playful quintet with a surprisingly clear sound"
Mischa Andriessen - Jazzmozaïek 3/2011 - Wilrijk- Antwerpen, Belgium
"Alienology is a very interesting album...a quintet running outside the stylistic canons, with flavor to free jazz. The quintet develop a sound that is coherent and very well delineated"
All about jazz - Roberto Paviglianiti – may 2011
