Rome Jazz Festival

At the start the 35th edition of the Rome Jazz Festival, the autumn festival of the capital program from
8 to 30 November 2011, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. The festival produced by
MFI Foundation is supported by the Ministry for Arts and Culture Capital and Rome -
Department of Cultural Affairs and Historical Center, and co-produced with the Music Foundation
Rome.
In addition to the shows offered in the Parco della Musica, Rome Jazz Festival will present the
"NEU Jazz", a series of initiatives implemented in conjunction with the most active jazz club in Rome and
with the support of the European cultural institutes, who will present an overview of "doing jazz" in the
other European countries. We could not miss last year too, the section that will feature Art
"Creative Inspiration", with an exhibition of works by some of the most important Italian artists
contemporaries.
"In the subversive rhythms and dissonant, weeping and screaming born on the African continent and in the Deep South
and misery of slavery, the oppressed refuse the Ninth Symphony and give art a form
desublimated, sensual, frightening immediacy, mobilizing, electrified the body, and
the soul in it materialized "(H. Marcuse's" Essay on Liberation, "1969)
The etymological roots of jazz from its name, the din, the effervescent life, refer to
sensuality, the mixture of races, cultures and ideas creating a wonderful concept that
the bastardization produces beauty. Jazz music as disturbing, closely connected to life
and its vital contradictions.
All these concepts, mixing, hybridization, sensuality, freedom, contradictions, meaning in life
lived a full, found in the likes of Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington,
Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Chet
Baker and many other icons of jazz, the best vehicle accident in the imagination of the charm of jazz
Collective.
This fascination continues today and is found in new melodies and new rising stars
jazz, although in a less prominent. The figure of the innovator, although more rare,
the introverted genius, charming, sensual, virtuous, dell'intrattenitore, there are still elements of
appeal and, therefore, elements of success. As the hybridization with other music and other cultures, lymph
vital to the survival of jazz in this new century.
This year, during the thirty-fifth anniversary, we dedicate more consistently
the discovery of the "Jazz Appeal", the appeal of jazz and the new aesthetic.
The charm of the mixing or hybridization.
One way to regenerate and find other sources of inspiration, a comparison with different cultures,
freedom to improvise on other tunes, from folk to opera to pop. Here, then
projects:
Flamenco with Dave Holland Quintet that after 40 years, "Spanish Key", the song contained in
Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, yet engages with flamenco. This time, however, interacts with
a true traditional ensemble, led by the great virtuoso Pepe Habichuela. The result is
amazing, with peaks alternating with moments of intense drama and song-lying, and between Rumbas
Bulerias in the best tradition, according to a contemporary respectfully revisited;
Mediterranean Monk and Chorus with Paolo Fresu Filetta. This concert develops a theme
isolate the musician, the relationship between jazz and popular folklore. The trumpet and Fresu
bandoneon by Daniele di Bonaventura contribute to the rich mix of sounds
polyphonic group during "A Filetta" whose repertoire blends tradition and innovation, old songs
and original songs;
Work with Danilo Rea and Flavio Boltro. Danilo Rea, whose true passion has always been "the order
improvised from beginning to end, "seems to have made their wish with this project.
Rea and Boltro improvise on themes of the most famous arias such as Mascagni, Puccini, Verdi, Bizet,
speaking to the hearts of all lovers of music, not just jazz. Beautiful interpretations
Flavio Boltro solo that is the task of representing the left hand;
"We want Michael" with Enrico Rava and Park Jazz Lab
A new project inspired by what is considered the absolute king of pop, and with its
songs and her art has left an indelible mark in the history of music and entertainment,
Michael Jackson. Rava with his human and artistic sincerity, his poetry recognizable, the
His poignant and lyrical sounds always supported by an astonishing freshness of inspiration,
engages in another musical adventure;
Roberto Gatto, "Gradually," an explorer, a "boy" who thought of turning
his instrument into a machine capable of moving through time and space. A musician
has always loved challenges, grew up listening to jazz, but always passionate about Progressive.
Latin Mood, a proposed meeting between jazz music and musical forms of tango, the
milonga, bossa nova, which is based on original compositions by Bosso, Girotto and
Mangalavite, who were able to return the emotional landscapes of Argentina in a music
sensual but also sparkling, thanks to the profusion of instrumental colors and accents. The Perfect
stylistic synthesis of the group, between the mother tongue of its members and the Argentineans matrix hardboppistica
that characterizes the pronunciation of Bosso.
Ibrahim Maalouf, one of the most talented trumpeters of the new wave of jazz
Mediterranean with a great passion for music "educated" and the traditional Lebanese
Special sounds a trumpet, which he invented ways to play the melody of music
Traditional Arabic.
Grand Pianola - ECHP - Park Ensemble of Contemporary Music, directed by Tonino Battista,
an ensemble consisting of musicians from the contemporary European scene. Guest star, David Moss,
known as one of the most innovative singers in the world with an extension of four octaves and a half
and a broad spectrum of sounds, a unique and powerful voice. All together for a tribute to John
Adams, a talented artist, one of the most admired composers of our day through some
of his most famous works devoted to gospel, pop and swing to the great American tradition.
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The charm of virtuosity, the charm of the guitar.
Pat Metheny Trio. Pat Metheny is perhaps the most famous guitarist in the world. Its enormous
popularity is due to a career which saw him starring in many different contexts and in continuous
international tours. Metheny has managed to forge a jazz very free and open to the most
various influences, especially South American, always putting in the foreground
a strong and complex melodic harmonization. But, whatever's playing, it remains
always the same if, enamored of his guitars and his variegated world. A model for all
subsequent generations, Mike Stern Band. Mike Stern has built his career in the '70s and
in the early '80s playing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Billy Cobham and in particular with Miles
Davis proving to be an innovator as well as a musician and appreciated by colleagues
fans. As Guitar World said: "One of the truly great guitarists of his generation."
The charm and sensuality of the female voice. Body and Soul.
From jazz singers have always represented the most profound and intimate
imagination of jazz, body and soul, body and soul. Here you cross three different stories, three
ways to interpret the role. An African-American singer who found success in Paris, a
young Italian singer who finds the limelight in New York, an Italian singer who finds the
happened before in Italy and then France. And finally, a new Korean talents of fomazione
classical, ranging from jazz and French chanson.
Dee Dee Bridgewater is considered one of the few female heirs of the great voices of jazz.
Daughter of art, Dee Dee debuted in 1970 as lead singer of the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Big Band
then continue his outstanding career alongside such giants as Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie,
Dexter Gordon and Max Roach and depopulated in a theater and starred in several musicals by
international success. Equipped with a versatile voice and dark, able to swing by the ballad
the most powerful piece Whisperer funky, and a superb sense of rhythm that is materialized in a
"Scat" inventive and unrestrained, his project is a tribute to the myth of the great Billie
Holiday, "Lady Day";