NUORO JAZZ FESTIVAL – NUORO – FROM 22 AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1

The long summer of this year in Nuoro Jazz is also one of his usual destinations: as already mentioned, from 22 August to 1 September renews the appointment with the fact Jazz Workshop planned and coordinated by Paolo Fresu for the organization of ‘ Body Music Nuoro. The initiative, one of the most important national teaching jazz, finishes its twenty-fourth edition of confirming, together with the period of development, well-tested formula and diagrams, as always, therefore, eleven days of lectures, practical and the usual series of master classes and workshops, the students waiting in classrooms well equipped the civic school of music “Chironi Antoinette” in the chair once again find musicians with great experience and prestige: Tino Quaff (for the course of saxophone), Robert Cipelli ( piano), Attilio Zanchi (bass and double bass), Thomas Blade (guitar), Ettore Fioravanti (drums), Bruno Tommaso (harmony), Richard Parrucci (flute and Alexander Technique), Corrado Guarino (ensemble music), Giovanni Agostino Frassetto (technique of improvisation), Luke Bragalini (jazz history), Maria Pia De Vito and Elisabetta Antonini (singing) and, of course, Paolo Fresu (trumpet and flugelhorn).

Building on the successful debut last year, returns to the course of jazz harp edited by Marcella Carboni. The introductory course also return to the jazz and Bragalini Luke, for the eighth consecutive time, the jazz photography workshop organized by Pino Ninfa, and the flamenco dance coordinated by Vicini Elena Grifoni, and Ada.

Two different special master makes each edition of the Nuoro Jazz Workshop. One dedicated to the island’s ethnic music (on the morning of August 30, at 11), this time actually relies to a musician as Paul Angels, from tradition and Logudorese Gallura, embarked with his ingenious “prepared Sardinian guitar” a very personal path in the territories of experimentation and improvisation. Protagonists, instead of international master (28 to 30 August) this year is the Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen, name player on the European jazz scene since the early seventies, when he played (1967-1973) in the quartet with Jan Garbarek.

With the inevitable return to the seminar series of concerts every night (beginning at 21:30) will add a touch of showmanship to the study days. Continuing the path of the last editions, the billboard, which not only provides dates Nuoro Bitti, Oliena, Onani, Orosei and Posada, dedicating a special space for projects and groups of musicians who have previously attended courses Nuoro. The rule already applies to the two sets of opening night (Wednesday, 22 August), in the courtyard of the birthplace of Grazia Deledda, as always “center stage” concerts held in Nuoro: reduce by the exhibition that will see them first ten days of Time in Jazz Festival at the scene of Berchidda, opens, as usual, the group formed by the best students of the last edition of the seminar, this time by the name of Six in the City, or Elena Urru (vocals), Elias Lapia (sax) , John the sheet (piano), Simone Albanian (guitar), Sabrina Damiani (bass) and Edward Luparello (drums). Afterwards, focus on the quintet Fulvio Sigurtà, “best new talent” in the poll of the magazine Musica Jazz, a trumpet player who has started to study jazz in 1998 with Paolo Fresu. To join him on stage, James Allsopp on bass clarinet, electric guitar Federico Casagrande, Timothy Giles on drums and bass, Sebastian Dessanay, other musicians passed through the courses of Nuoro.

Cagliari but active time in England, it will still be in the spotlight of the Funtana Piazza Manna Onani the following evening (August 23), first date “in decentralization” of the show, but this time in the role of leader to propose the repertoire from her recent album “Songbook Volume Two”, the head of a staff with Gianluca Corona on guitar, piano Alessandro Di Liberto, Pierpaolo Frailis on drums and the trumpet again Fulvio Sigurtà.

In England (London) lives and works for several years also Thomas Starace, star of the concert on Friday 24 Posada (at the House of the Ladies). The Italo-Australian saxophonist firmly directs two quartets, one English, one Italian, with Michele Di Toro floor, Attilio Zanchi on double bass and Tommy on drums Bradascio: the same training, plus the British vibraphonist Roger Beaujolais as a “guest” with whom he recorded his fifth album, “Simply Marvelous” (a tribute to the music of Michel Petrucciani), and accompanied him in this trip Sardinian land.

Back in Nuoro, the exhibition presents an original production on Saturday 25 in the name of all that unites voice, for the first time, some singers in various capacities related to seminars Nuoro: Marta Raviglia, Alessia Obino, Francesca Corrias and Rossella Faa. To accompany an exceptional rhythm section consisting of three teachers of the winter courses of Nuoro Jazz: pianist Alessandro Di Liberto Cagliari, Alghero the Savior Maltana on bass and drummer Luke Plain Sassari. After the experiments of the last years of the Sax and Trumpet Meeting Meeting was then the turn of the Nuoro Jazz Vocal Summit.

For Marta Raviglia, other sounds and other atmospheres, the next night (August 26) in Orosei, in the space of Casa Cabras, regular stop of the exhibition. The singer, composer and improviser, attended by more adventurous music, such as Morpheus of the duo that shares the fate with the Sassari Manuel Attanasio, himself explorer of the expressive possibilities of the voice, vocal improvisation, objects, samplers and multi-effects are the paraphernalia of artistic cooperation, for the occasion will also involve choreographed by Alessandra Walls.

Complete the perfect “chapter” dedicated to former students of the Seminary of Nuoro Jazz Richard Pittau, Sardinian trumpeter (of Guasila), born in 1973, from the large and wide range of experience and collaborations ranging from jazz to the more traditional research, Caribbean salsa music from the Balkans. On 29 August, Bitti, adding his trumpet also loops and samples, Riccardo Pittau shows the head of his Congregation, with Joraku Gianni Gebbia on alto sax, Vincenzo Vasi on electric bass, theremin and vocals, Francesco Cusa on drums and percussions and Paolo Angeli with his original prepared Sardinian guitar.

Meanwhile, the festival will have peeled other pages. On August 27, double date at Nuoro in the morning, Paolo Fresu performs en solitaire for patients and staff of the San Francesco, so returning, after one year, one of the stops “encore” of “! 50 “The matter of Sardinia in music that trumpeter wanted to celebrate his fifty years. In the evening, in the more usual space of the courtyards of Casa Deledda spotlight on Apogee quintet of John Thomas, a group launched in 2007, which explicitly calls in the name of the perigee, the historic line-jazz-rock bassist in Tuscany was the founder . But if the size was the number of electrical experience, Apogee is instead an acoustic project, with the exception of the electric guitar on Bebo Ferra in a workforce that sees Daniele Scannapieco on sax, piano and Claudio Filippini Alessandro Paternesi on drums.

And speaking of Bebo Ferra, waiting two different commitments the next day (Tuesday 28) guitarist Cagliari (but long since moved to Milan): in the afternoon (16), will be the star performer of the concert Badu ‘and Carros, the usual appointment that every edition of Nuoro Jazz reserves the inmates of the city jail and then in the evening, return to the stage of Deledda House, this time with Riccardo Fioravanti (bass) and Stefano Bagnoli (drums) in the ranks of the quartet of Matthias Cigalini, young saxophonist Piacenza (born 1989), here struggling with his new project: A Bad Romance, a rehash of pop songs by Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, along with new songs of the same Cigalini, one of the best talents of the new generation of jazz musicians according to the critics.

The final step in decentralization, August 30, is Oliena in the country at the foot of Mount Race him on stage is the Easy Clan Pastor Stephen (violin, vocals), George Haslam (sax), Steve Waterman (trumpet), Roberto Bonati (bass) and Carlo Sezzi (drums, another former student of the courses Nuoro), an Anglo-Italian group that combines power and freshness in his free-jazz-rock mix, with extraordinary presence of the appreciated vocalist Napoleon Maddox of Cincinnati .

For his final commitments the show returns in Nuoro. Friday 31, fell from the chair of his master, Arild Andersen takes the stage of the Teatro Eliseo, a worthy setting for the concert as a duo with Paolo Fresu. Class 1945, jazz musician of the year in 2008 for the prestigious Academie du Jazz in France, the Norwegian bassist is among the most prolific musicians of the ECM team, with a score of albums released by leaders. Arild Andersen and Paolo Fresu are known and have long collaborated musically with pianist and composer Vangelis Katsoulis greek concert and studio recording, but they played as a duo a few times: one more reason not to miss the end of August to Nuoro.

Like last year, the capital barbaricino will also be the “theater” of the final essay, September 1, which seals each edition of the seminar involving students and teachers of the courses: one hundred musicians, distributed in various organic and engaged in a course music divided into stages and different situations with sounds and atmospheres, this time revolve around the square named Sebastiano Satta.

Unchanged from last year, the fee for attending the seminar Nuoro Jazz Workshop is two hundred and fifty euros, reduced to two hundred euros for those registering before June 30. Is costing one hundred and twenty euros frequency of one master Arild Andersen. For information and registration, the secretary of courses to respond to the email address and 078436156 nuorojazz@entemusicalenuoro.it.

The twenty-fourth edition of the Seminar and the Nuoro Jazz festival is organized with the assistance of the Ministry for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (the Entertainment and Cultural Activities Department and Department of Tourism) and the Fondazione Banco di Sardegna, with the collaboration of the Higher Regional Ethnography and the municipalities of Nuoro, Bitti, Oliena, Onani, Orosei and Posada.

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