Readers on, from this evening (Saturday 23) until 31 August, on one of the most anticipated and long -awaited music and cultural reviews of the Calabrian summer: the international jazz festival Mediterranean noises (also known as Roccella Jazz Festival) for the first time under the artistic direction of the master Mirko Onofrio Mirko, who chose as the common thread “absence of gravity”.
A large program of shows and talk characterizes the 45.But edition of the review, promoted by the Municipality and as always divided into two sessions, “Jazz Village”, from 23 to 28 August, in Largo Colonne and “Mediterranean noises”, from 29 to 31 August at the Teatro al Castello, both with two evening concerts starting at 9.30 pm. The inaugural evening of the “Jazz Village” will host the concert “Jazz Back to Gram” today in the first set dedicated to Vincenzo Staiano, who will feature Carmelo Cogliatore and Giuseppe Nicolò, and then left room for the overwhelming and festive energy of the music of Renzo Rubino & La Sbanda. Of particular charm is the evening of August 26 dedicated to Luigi Tenco, who will open with the virtuosity of Francesco Cafiso, among the greatest Italian saxophonists, with a program that embodies the essence of contemporary jazz, followed by the Jazz Quintet Roma who will reinterpret the most iconic songs of Tenco and the great French musical tradition with taste and swing. The evening of 27 August that will host Karen Mantler, a refined American artist and daughter of Carla Bley, who brings his visionary and experimental music to Roccella, will host. To close the Jazz Village session on August 28th will be the American composer Wayne Horvitz who will direct the Roccellarkestra, a new resident orchestra of the festival made up of Calabrian musicians.
The concerts of the Di Lieto-Simone Stellato Duo, by Lebron Johnson (24 August), Nubras Ensemble and the Afrodream (25), the Alegiani-Puglisi-Paggi trio (27), and Andrea Glockner Quartet (28) are also on the bill at the jazz village. The “Mediterranean noise” session hosted in the historical headquarters of the Festival is also intense and certainly appeal. To tread the stage of the Teatro al Castello will be: the Silke Eberhard quartet with a tribute to Eric Dolphy and the iconic Quintorigo & John de Leo (29 August); The saxophonist Simone Alessandrini who will present “Storytellers” and Rita Marcotulli with his project Under 29 But Me – “Colors”, a journey between generations and styles with young talents (including daughter Elettra Minieri and Ava Alami) and Special Guest Luca Aquino (30 August); The pianist and vocalist Francesca Tandoi, a nascent star of international jazz and the overwhelming concert of the big band of the Italian Army Band directed by Mario Corvini, with the extraordinary participation of Fabrizio Bosso’s trumpet who, together, will bring the public on a Swing journey through the America of the Second World War (31 August).