Press and media Météores
Météores was awarded with:
- Sélection FIP” for the whole month of June 2011 at French radio FIP;
- Sélection HM Suisse by Harmonia Mundi Switzerland, 2011;
- one of the best 11 instrumental jazz albums in 2013 by French radio program Birdland – Radio Alpa.
Ceccarelli’s jazz is mature and incisive; this record… is among the most intense and convincing works that we’ve happened to listen to in recent times.
Marco Crisostomi, magazine Audio Review, Italy, 2012
Météores, Italian jazz pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli’s first work as leader of a trio, is a masterpiece, beautifully elegant, and rich in emotions.
Website HMV Online, Japan, 2011
Giovanni Ceccarelli shows again to be a skilled composer, an excellent performer, a passionate musician and a modest poet. As matter of fact, as this record gets to the end, the only possible thing to do is to press again the ‘play’ button.
Pietro Scaramuzzo, website Extra! Music Magazine, Italy 2011
The compositions contained in Météores, the musicians’ complicity and virtuosity call for the strongest emotions. It is an album that makes you dream.
Radio FIP, France, 2011
Enriched by a superb video clip of Ti Odio, directed by Marthe Le More, this new album by the Giovanni Ceccarelli Trio presents an alternative and particularly touching vision of jazz…
Fred Delforge, website ZicaZic, France, 2011
(Giovanni Ceccarelli) is a pianist of great elegance, who plays with beautiful subtility… The melody always wins…
Jacques Lerognon, magazine Nouvelle Vague, France, 2011
Giovanni Ceccarelli is a pianist of rare sensibility and elegance.
Radio program Ondes Noires, France, 2011
With Météores, (Giovanni Ceccarelli) presents us a jazz full of space and suspending time. The album includes 9 originals, but also 3 classics, among which stands the beautiful Chega de Saudade. Sublime.
Cyril Cournoyer, magazine Femina, France, 2011
With his new album, Météores, Giovanni Ceccarelli confirms to be a a very fine jazzman. The Italian pianist, in trio with his fellow musicians Ferruccio Spinetti and Francesco Petreni, creates a musical universe full of nuances, between heady romanticism and subtle melancholy. It is, at the end, a very personal album…
Qobuz Magazine, France, 2011
Radio broadcasts
Brasil” – Rai Radio 1, Italy, 2012
Jazz a Nota Libera – TeleRadioStereo 2, Italy, 2013