By Steve Feeney

Italy has welcomed American jazz artists over the years, often providing musical support for them from a cadre of homegrown players. Things sort of came full circle when local jazz/world/klezmer flutist Carl Dimow met the accomplished Italian vocalist Giuppi Paone in the summer of 2012 while she was visiting a friend in Portland. The connection they made drew them very quickly into Acadia Sound to do some recording.

We are told that "no goal, plan or arrangements" were on the table for these sessions. The recordings captured on Paone's new CD "The Acadian Session" show, however, that very good things can happen in the musical moment.

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