Seventh edition of “A Vigevano Jazz” from 6 to 11 July with Emilio Soana, Luciano Zadro, Big Band Jazz Company and Claudio Angeleri

organized by JC Productions with the contribution ofmunicipal administrationThe review is back again this year “A Vigevano Jazz”Now in its seventh edition: three concerts, scheduled from 6 to 11 July In palace courtyardare part of the program of programs “Vigevano Summer” and 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 at vigevanoestate.it; in case of bad weather, the concerts will be moved to the Cavalleriza del Castello).

we leave Thursday 6 July Together “Guitar Night”, an event in memory of guitarist Roberto Trapella, who died prematurely last April and was already a member of the Big Band Jazz Company. On stage, four instrumental accompanists (Luciano Zadro, Dario Spezia, Andrea Giustiniani, Gabriele Maimone) and a septet of jazz company directed by Gabriele Comoglio, producer and artistic director “Vigevano in Jazz”.

The special guest of the evening is the guitarist of Waaise Luciano Zadro, professor at the Bergamo Conservatory, 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): among the pieces that will be performed are “Road Song”, “Napletown Blues”, “Four on Six” And “Boss City”.

Friday July 7th spotlight on “Emilio 80!”a tribute to Emilio Soana On his upcoming 80th birthday (he was born on July 16, 1943). along with this extraordinary musician will be jazz companyOne of the longest standing big bands on the Italian and European scene, in full force and singer maggie charlton: The public will be able to hear some compositions by Gorni Kramer, a fellow countryman of Emilio Soana (both were born in Rivarolo Mantovano), and Soana has worked with very famous musicians, from Ray Charles to Natalie Cole.

Dean of Jazz Trumpeters, Emilio Soana From a very young age he showed great interest in music especially for trumpet. 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 Sea-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, Regio di Parma, but not only), Soana has collaborations with distinguished conductors such as Daniel Oren, Riccardo Chelli, Zoltan Pesco, Vladimir Delman can claim. and others.

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

Finally, for the closing ceremony of “A Vigevano Jazz”, Tuesday 11 July will be staged “Music from Invisible Cities”a project of the piano Guys And Composer Claudio Angeleri Inspired by the masterpiece of Italo Calvino, whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year. The costumes of Claudio Angeleri and the singing voice of actor Oreste Castagna take the audience through a fantastic journey, into imaginary places outside time, 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 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 music that tells the story, assuming the typical descriptive function of the text, whereas words, recited or sung (and often electronically filtered), owe more to potential musical quality than textual coherence. is used to.

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 impressions 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 in their full potential. can, thereby making them “personal”. explanation, because, as Calvino himself wrote, “Signs, as we see them, do not always tell us what we believe them to 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).

Free admission with reservation on the website vigevanoestate.it

In the event of inclement weather, the concerts will be moved to the Cavalleriza del Castello.

Online: www.avigevanojazz.webs.com

Thursday 6th July 2023 at 9:15 PM

“Guitar Night”

In memory of Roberto Trapella

Luciano Zadro, Dario Spezia, Andrea Giustiniani, Gabriele Maimon (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 7th July 2023 at 9:15 PM

“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), Sarah Collodelle (guitar) , Alberto Bonacassa (piano), Roberto Geli (bass), Marco Serra (drums), Maggie Charlton (vocals).

Tuesday 11 July 2023 at 9:15 PM

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).