AB-CD Planetwide

'Their music is a group experience… Recommended.'

Cadence Magazine

'On tenor sax [Art Themen], a fetching silver-frosted horn with golden keys, his tone blended elements of Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins and Archie Shepp into distinctive solos coloured with smears, vocalised cries and truncated double-time runs. On soprano, using a softer reed, his sound was more rubbery but his ideas equally eclectic in an unpredictable style that has outlasted the Coltrane clones of his generation.'

Jack Massarik, London Evening Standard

Track 8, The Dingus, has found its way onto the Jazz Player Sampler CD - January 1999

The Frank Giasullo - Art Themen Quartet has created a distinctive sound, enhanced by its strong repertoire of original compositions by Frank Giasullo. Frank Giasullo is a classically trained jazz player but his piano playing and the music he writes comes as much out of his feeling for gospel, folk, and blues as his classical and jazz background. This gives his music a rare naturalness and ease with which listeners instantly identify, yet it also possesses emotional and musical layers that offer new delights long after the first hearing. In other words, Frank Giasullo is one of those expressive jazz musicians who uses what he knows, to say what he feels.

The Quartet combines thoughtful, accomplished playing with a laid-back groove and sensitive ensemble work. From cool blue to warm and lush, the FGQ eloquently reflect a breadth of feeling only possible in an acoustic jazz quartet of this quality.

Special thanks to Phillip Bagenal for his studio expertise & Andy Cleyndert photography.

The FG-AT Quartet