Mantova, “For lunch!” this is the 43rd edition of MantovaJazz

Mantova, “For lunch!” this is the 43rd edition of MantovaJazz.

MantovaJazz will appear in 2023 on its forty third edition in full health, offering the public of Mantua a four-stage overview of the possibilities of the progressive “mainstream” in recent years.

Vanguard and roots

There the ability of jazz to revive without changing its roots it has always surprised during the now secular period of its growth in importance and its inexhaustible linguistic evolution.

lying flat something between a conservative approachor neoclassicism, and avant-garde drivegreat mainstream jazz that’s what’s happening now without geographical or age barriers. use them avant-garde as a spur and classicism as a call to beauty their roots.

Organization

The program was presented on Friday 18 August at the municipal office in Via Roma 39 by Jacopo Rebecchi, Councilor of Commerce of the Municipality of Mantua, Marco Monici, representative of Archi Mantova, members of the Circolo del Jazz “Roberto Chiozzini” Giorgio Signoretti and Roberto Biaggi.

MantovaJazz organized Arch of Mantua AND Jazz Club “Roberto Chiozzini”” supported by Municipality of Mantua and from Mantovana Community Foundationin collaboration with Mantua Conservatory “Lucio Campiani”, Institute Carlo d’Arco and Isabella d’Este and music schools Academy of Arts, Consonanze, New School of Music and Sonum Music School.

Main stream

The impressive pianism of the very young can certainly fall into the field of this vital “mainstream”. Tigran Hamasyan (November 4, Saturday – Ariston Theatre)capable of evoking with his trio the Armenian flavors of his family tradition and the rhythmic power of a great progressive rock band.

Or the amazing tenor saxophone Chris Potter (Friday, November 10 – Monteverdi Auditorium)which reminds us of how this instrument, from Dexter Gordon to John Coltrane, from Wayne Shorter to Michael Brecker, has played a fundamental role in the evolution of modern jazz’s linguistic codes.

Modern mainstream

Powerful and masterful double bass Christian McBride (Friday, October 13 – Ariston Theatre), the director and linchpin of New Jawn, a great quartet that projects the great sixties hard bop tradition into the present and a bit into the future.

There’s also room for local treasures, with a great bass player Marco Cocconi (Friday, October 27 – Arcee Tom)finally back in the lead after excellent support for a significant number of diverse projects.

Historic partnership

MantovaJazz, the “Roberto Chiozzini” festival, is the result of a historic collaboration between provincial arch AND jazz club and leads to Mantua continuously since 1981 biggest American and European Jazzdefinition each year a common theme that serves as an incentiveaimed at spectators, musicians and students, for reflection increasingly aware of the absolute value that jazz has acquired as a universal and extraordinarily rich and vital form of expression.

Subscriptions and tickets

Tickets for performances can be purchased at pre-sale on the website (www.vivaticket.it) or in stores

Viva Ticket or directly on the day of the concert on site from 19.00.

For this year’s edition, in addition to individual tickets for concerts, you can purchase tickets subscription for everyone and four concerts priced at €60. More information on the website mantovajazz.it, by e-mail info@mantovajazz.it or call 348 0072215.

Wider audience

MantovaJazz is not just a festival: it tries to expand target audience – especially young people – through the offer of concerts in more popular and accessible places.

like me Ypung billboard free concerts – i.e. young and promising Italian jazz and blues musicians – who were created in July this year at ArciFesta and who are offered every year in Arci clubs and circles in the same period as MantovaJazz (more information will soon appear in the section MantovaJazz Young will take place in autumn 2023).

Or how to join International Jazz Day (created in 2011 at the initiative of UNESCO Ambassador Herbie Hancock by the United Nations), which this year took the form of a large free concert organized by the students of the Liceo Musicale and the students of the Jazz Faculty of Mantua. Conservatory.

For young people

In addition, to highlight MantovaJazz’s commitment to spreading jazz music to new generations, discounts for students of the Mantua Conservatory, Liceo Musicale e Dareutico and music schools Academy of Arts, Consonanze, New School of Music and Sonum Music School.
Interested students can contact the respective music school directly for more information.

Concerts

Friday, October 13, 2023
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE’S NEW JAW
21:00 – Ariston Theater (Via Principe Amedeo 20 – Mantova)

Christian McBride, chronologically, is the last great interpreter of that African-American line of jazz double bass whose genealogy includes authentic monuments of sound and drive such as Ray Brown or Ron Carter. A welcome partner for the most influential musicians, from Joe Henderson to Freddie Hubbard, from Pat Metheny to Diana Krall, McBride is also a great leader. His New Jaawn quartet is a perfect machine, built on a “pure” rhythm section, without harmonic instruments, that inherits the power, dynamics and groove from the great progressive hard bop of the sixties and seventies, reworking them in the light of what’s new in jazz. created in recent decades.

On the stage:
Christian McBride • Double bass
Marcus Strickland • Saxophone
Josh Evans • Trumpet
Nashit Waits • Drums

The concert starts at 21, the theater opens at 20.
Tickets: numbered seats in the stalls 30 € – subscription to all concerts 60 €.

Friday, October 27, 2023
MARCO COCCONI QUARTET
21:00 – Archie Tom (Piazza Tom Benetollo 1 – Mantua)

MnJazz’s tradition is to point out the recordings of the musicians who have contributed the most to the development of the Mantua scene, amazing in their own way. Marco Cocconi is one of them. An undisputed specialist in the electric bass, to which he gives a completely jazzy sonic dimension with clarity and rigor, Cocconi devotes himself more and more to the double bass, on which he reveals the same precious qualities of harmonic clarity and poetic clarity of the sign. A clarity that also comes from the original compositions of the exquisite CD Even In My Soul, the second as the leader, twenty years after the no less delightful previous one, Chiaroscuri.

On the stage:
Marco Cocconi • Double bass
Manuel Kaliumi • Saxophone
Riccardo Barba • Piano
Federico Negri • Drums

The concert starts at 21, the theater opens at 20.
Tickets: unnumbered seats in the stalls 5 € – subscription to all concerts 60 €.

Saturday, November 4, 2023
TIGRAN HAMASYAN – A CALL INSIDE
21:00 – Ariston Theater (Via Principe Amedeo 20 – Mantova)

Tigran Hamasyan is perhaps the greatest discovery of modern jazz piano. He was born in Armenia on July 17, 1987, and after his family moved to Los Angeles, he quickly established himself in the world village of great jazz. In addition to the highly original ways of his instrumental virtuosity, his organizational qualities as a now mature leader and the changing architecture of superbly recombinant jazz that absorbs the charm of the rhythmic and melodic elements of Armenian folk and does not hesitate to feed on progressive rock’s most powerful offerings. Hamasyan brings to Mantua his magnificent European trio The Call Within with Mark Karapetyan on bass and Artur Gnatek on drums.

On the stage:
Tigran Hamasyan • Piano
Mark Karapetyan • Bass
Artur Hnatek • Drums

The concert starts at 21, the theater opens at 20.
Tickets: numbered seats in the stalls 25 € – subscription to all concerts 60 €.

Friday, November 10, 2023
CHRIS POTTER CIRCUITS TRIO – ‘SUNRISE REPRISE’
21:00 – Auditorium Monteverdi (Via Conciliazione 33 – Mantova)

CHRIS POTTER Circuits Trio ‘SUNRISE REPRISE’ The post-Coltranian jazz scene represents a continuous flowering of great white tenorists such as Joe Farrell, Joe Lovano or Michael Brecker, outstanding musicians who were able to create a coherent line of poetry that bridged tradition and research. and equally at ease in the dryness of small groups or the explosiveness of large groups and more electrical contexts. Chris Potter now holds the baton of this exciting tradition in his hands, and each of his performances sounds overwhelming in energy and impressive in technique and inspiration. He brings the Trio Circuits to Mantua, the same one from the 2021 Sunrise Reprise CD, with the amazing James Francis on keyboards and Eric Harland on percussion.

On the stage:
Chris Potter • Saxophone
James Francis • Keyboards
Piano Eric Harland • Drums

The concert starts at 21, the theater opens at 20.
Tickets: numbered seats in the stalls 20 € – subscription to all concerts 60 €.