... "Kale Akte music, is "total and spiritual music": it's "music for soul" ... it's difficult to catalogue this music, because it come from jazz like ECM, chamber music, pop-progressive, with a natural tendency to oriental and nordeuropee music".
Gigi Razete - 1985
... "Grifeo's solo piano di Grifeo is solemn; generally it's iterative in the left hand, sometime we ear a sweet and a reminescents melody. The music induce to a circolar sound. Grifeo's object is: simplicity, refiniment and his musical concept that talk about "total music".
Antonio la Spina - 1987
... "Hagakure: it's so difficult to catalogue this music; it join differents musical language and it's near the New Age. It's meditative music, with sofe and sorround sound. An experimental music in a rich and evocative performance".
Roberto Valentino - 1989
... "evocative phatos and creative improvvisation, that start from inventiveness to arrive in the deepper". Musician iterview
Giordano Selini - 1981
... "Cellophano": Beppe Grifeo create melodies that dance, that create moods of color and images. The hypnotic piano figures set a pace that sound like wawes rushing to the shore... it is really just fine music".
R. B. Kamins, Cadence - 1981
... "the solo piano dedicated to Sun Ra... come in a logical performance; it's an history ... wonderful the colour contrast ... this work is very good, both about Sun Ra' music, and especially about the realy personal imprint".
Franco D'andrea - 1997
... "A quiet place in the univers" is a very nice CD: the atmosphere is very serene. The Grifeo'arrangements, are respectful, coherent and at the same time it is very personal. The pianistic sound in wonderful like the recording. It is a very good mosaic of Sun Ra; I think that Grifeo have done a nice omage to this great musician ... all the tracks are quiet good".
Giorgio Gaslini - 1997
... "in the CD of Beppe Grifeo with Sun Ra music, we take the "momentum" of a group and it is wonderful and realy rare in a solo piano performance ... that's great".
Robert Wyatt - 1997
... "In the solo piano by Beppe Grifeo "A quiet place in the univers", rolling bass figures andfrequent sustain, create a warm carpet of ipnotic sound for Ra's sometimes dissonant melodies ... the enphasis, on pedal point and strongly scalar improvsation, can lead to interesting zones of tonal conflict ... this is an interesting investigation of Ra's music with a distinct tonal architecture". Integral article
Stuart Broomer, Cadence - 1998
... "Beppe Grifeo is a marvel as the careening and unpredictable "Altri Destini" alone can attest ... Grifeo shifts tonal center, sets up conterpoints and polyrhythms ... tricky rhythmic and melodic twists and turns that Grifeo navigates with respect and aplomb... all demonstrate the considerable talents of a towering pianist who deserves to be better known". Integral article
Robert Spencer, Cadence - 1998
... "not only jazz, not only pop, not only traditional music, but a true mix that go, time by time, in a different tradizion, to express, handle, mould". Integral article
La Provincia Pavese - 1999
... "a new research, melodic smart, fine, and rich of old recall". Integral article
Vittorio Franchini - 2000
... "the meeting of Grifeo, Mazzon, Rusconi it'll happened in a deep concentrate atmosphere. The music is very expressive and go beyond the instrumental attention ... this music emphasize a community to the concept of the music by this three musicians". Integral article
Giuseppe Dalla Bona, Musica jazz - Dicembre 2000
... "Ishk Bashad" is wise melodies, where different timbre, talk between a fleeting present and a runaway past". Integral article
Claudio Bellone - 2000
... "The music of "Come un soffio di vento" is sometimes free and open but it's all distinctly accesible ... the compositions are spare and sharp and evocative ... each voice is clear, full and distinct, lending a degree of candor to the performances".
Greg Buium, Cadence - 2001
... "Ishk Bashad" is a voyage in a distant culture and traditions legacy through a deep unity ... the concert is very particular and unique ... charming".
Corrado Canonici, Festival Ancona - 2001