“A Vigevano Jazz” is back with Emilio Soana, Luciano Zadro, Big Band Jazz Company and Claudio Angeleri

JC with the contribution of the municipal administration. Productions, Review”in wigwano jazzarrived at seventh edition: I three concerts scheduled In the courtyard of the palace from 6 to 11 Julyare part of the program of programs “wigwano summerAnd see the participation of the illustrious names of the Italian scene Emilio Soana To claudius angeleri Till then Luciano Zadro (live start at 21.15, free admission with reservation www.vigevanoestate.it,

we leave thursday 6 with julyguitar night“, events In memory of guitarist Roberto Trapella, who died prematurely last April, was a former member of the Big Band Jazz Company. Four instrumental accompanists (Luciano Zadro, Dario Spezia, Andrea Giustiniani, Gabriele Maimone) and the septet of the jazz company directed by Gabriele Comaglio, producer and artistic director of “A Vigevano Jazz”, will pay a dutiful tribute to him on stage.

Luciano Zadro

The special guest of the evening is the guitarist of the Bergamo Conservatory, Professor Varese Luciano Zadro, one of the most acclaimed and expert Italian soloists. Zadro has collaborated with important names in international jazz (including Eric Marienthal, Alex Acuna and Franco Ambrosetti) and pop music (Amy Stewart, Neck, Mina and Fabio Concato). Joining him on stage are Dario Spezia, a young guitarist already established as a solo artist and session musician (he has played with Chris Collins, Karima and Massimo López), and Andrea Giustiniani and Gabriele Maimone, Civic Jazz Two brilliant students of the course will perform. Milan, a confirmation of the openness to young people that has distinguished the Vigevano Jazz Festival since its first edition.

The repertoire will be based entirely on the music of Wes Montgomery, One of the most famous jazz guitarists (this year marks the centenary of his birth): songs performed include “Road Song”, “Napletown Blues”, “Four on Six” and “Boss City”.

Friday July 7th spotlight on “Emily 80!, Tribute to Emilio Sona On his upcoming 80th birthday (he was born on July 16, 1943). This extraordinary musician will be accompanied by the Jazz Company, one of the longest standing big bands on the Italian and European scene, and the singer Maggie Charlton: the public will be able to hear some compositions by Gorni Kremer, a partner of Emilio Soana. Countryman (both were born in Rivarolo Mantovano), and pieces by very famous musicians with whom Soana has performed, from Ray Charles to Natalie Cole.

Emilio Soana

Dean of Jazz Trumpet Players, Emilio Soana showed a great interest in music, especially the trumpet, from a very early age. At the suggestion of Gorni Kramer, he attended the Parma Conservatory, attending “experimental” courses in ensemble music conducted by Maestro Claudio Abbado, graduating in 1961. Soloist and powerful instrumental voice. He was the principal trumpeter of the Rai Orchestra of Milan, while today he is the principal trumpeter of the Milano C-Jazz Band, of the Monte Carlo Knights Orchestra, and occasionally, many other ensembles require his presence. He has collaborated with renowned jazz musicians such as Gary Mulligan, Art Farmer, Francis Boland, Kenny Barron, Curtis Fuller, Ray Brown, Kay Winding and Clark Terry, as well as with the main Italian jazz musicians. (from Franco D’Andrea to Giorgio Gaslini, from Sante Palumbo to Paolo Tomeleri). A versatile composer, also active in the field of classical music with various formations (Rai, Pomerigi Musicali, Reggio di Parma, but not only), collaborating with eminent directors such as Sona Daniel Oren, Riccardo Chelli, Zoltan Pesco, Vladimir Delman can do. and others.

Born in 1990, the Big Band Jazz Company directed by Gabriele Comaglio includes some soloists from the disbanded Rai Light Music Orchestra in Milan and is one of the most prestigious European formations: to its credit more than 500 concerts in Italy and abroad. and has performed with leading international soloists including Bob Mintzer, Randy Brecker, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lee Konitz and Franco Ambrosetti.

Finally, for the final show of “A Vigevano Jazz”, Tuesday 11 July will be stagedmusic from invisible cities”, a project of pianist and composer claudius angeleri Inspired by the masterpiece of Italo Calvino, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year. Claudio Angeleri’s costume and actor Oreste Castagna’s singing voice will take the audience through a fantastic journey out of time, to imaginary places reminiscent of ancient cities or very modern metropolises. Some of these cities hang on long slopes, others are on the border between two deserts, sand and sea, still others are very similar to each other despite being thousands of kilometers apart. To translate this kaleidoscope of images and sensations into a show, we worked on the particularities of different languages ​​(music and words) and the new possibilities offered by intertextual relationships. It is the music that tells the story, assuming the typical narrative function of the text, while the words, recited or sung (and often electronically filtered), owe more to potential musical quality than textual coherence. is used to.

claudius angeleri

The show offers the public a sequence of pictures, different from each other, each with its own story and its protagonists. The sounds elicit a multiplicity of auditory cues through read and sung words and through various devices, such as luminous markings that indicate different paths to the listener, who in turn can experience them to their full potential. can, thereby making them “personal”. interpretation, because, as Calvino himself wrote, “signs, as we see them, do not always tell us what we believe they mean”.

Pianist, composer and teacher, Claudio Angeleri graduated in Jazz Piano at the University of West London. A prominent name on the Italian scene, he has participated in the most important national and international jazz festivals, recording several albums as a leader, with musicians of the caliber of Charly Mariano, Jerry Bergonzi, Bobby Watson, Franco Ambrosetti, Bob Mintzer cooperated. Jorge Garzon, Tony Scott, Franco Ceri, Massimo Urbani and Gianni Basso and have created shows that cross jazz and literature, creating their own instrumental dialogues with great musicians such as Steve Lacy, Kenny Wheeler and Gianluigi Trovesi, just to name a few to name. Since 1987 he is President of the Music Production Educational Center CDpM of Bergamo, where he carries out intensive teaching activity.

“A Vigevano Jazz” – from 6 to 11 July 2023 (seventh edition)

Where: Courtyard of the Palace, Piazza Ducale 20, Vigevano (PV).

Concert start: 21.15.

free admission with on-site reservation www.vigevanoestate.it

Thursday 6 July 2023

“Guitar Night”

In memory of Roberto Trapella

Luciano Zadro, Dario Spezia, Andrea Giustiniani, Gabriele Maimone (guitar) and Jazz Company Septet directed by Gabriele Comoglio: Gabriele Comoglio (alto sax, arrangements), Valerio Befa and Giancarlo Porro (tenor sax), Angelo Rolando (trombone), Alberto Bonacassa (piano), Roberto Geli (bass), Alessandro Casse (drums).

Friday 7 July 2023

“Emilio 80!”

Tribute to Emilio Soana on the occasion of his 80th birthday

Big Band Jazz Company Feat. Emilio Soana

Gabriele Comaglio (alto sax, arrangements), Emanuele Dell’Osa, Damiano Fuschi, Vittorio Cazzaniga, Ubaldo Busco (sax), Emilio Soana, Silvio Pontigia, Claudio De Bernardi (trumpet), Angelo Rolando (trombone), Sara Collodell (guitar) , Alberto Bonacassa (piano), Roberto Geli (bass), Marco Serra (drums), Maggie Charlton (vocals).

Tuesday 11 July 2023

music from invisible cities

Claudio Angeleri Ensemble and Oreste Castagna (actor)

Claudio Angeleri (piano), Giulio Visibelli (sax), Gabriele Comoglio (sax), Paola Milzani (voice), Marco Esposito (bass), Matteo Milesi (drums), Oreste Castagna (narrator).