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Dee Dee Bridgwater
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ANCONA JAZZ - 25 YEARS
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jazz to Latin-American sounds with some major female performers, from Renée Rosnes to Dee Dee Bridgwater
Ancona is celebrating its silver anniversary
with jazz music: for twenty-five years, the city has hosted a regular autumn
event for all jazz lovers throughout Italy, binding its playbill to the
fundamental features of Afro-American music and its evolution over the last
century.
“Ancona Jazz – 25 years” is set to evoke stories both old
and new, popular people and musicians bound to the history of jazz in the city:
and, for this reason, rediscover the settings that render this festival
“custom-made for man”, while remaining capable of taking on - and winning - the
challenge of the great theatre.
The 2003
Festival 2003 will take place on 7th-8th-9th
November, with a separate theme every night, while revealing common traits as
well. At the Teatro Sperimentale,
“Bass Night” will be dedicated to the double bass: the new Stafford James trio,
a historic double bass player of free jazz and modern hard bop, and the John Patitucci quartet. “Piano Night” will see pianist Renée Rosnes and Rich Perry on the tenor sax play alternately, in
a tribute to the deeply regretted Joe Henderson, and the “latino”
trio of a dear friend of “Ancona Jazz”, Cedar Walton,
with guest performer Ray Mantilla. Special evening at Le Muse theatre on
9th November with the Italian preview of the new project of Dee Dee Bridgewater, one of the major singers not just in
the jazz genre, and who manages to find new musical stimuli every year.
Lots of
Brazilian and Latin-American music thus intertwined within a jazz context of
the utmost solidity (the performances of singer Luciana Sousa in the Patitucci group, of drummer-percussionist Miguel “Anga” Diaz with Stafford, and of the aforementioned
Mantilla); the presence of female performers is not to go unnoticed, not just
as vocals, usually a woman’s prerogative, but also as instrument players, with Rosnes, perhaps the best pianist performing today.
A prologue
and an epilogue for 2003: the performance of the Guillermo Klein orchestra, a
sort of multinational (with important Italian elements) of jazz linked to
Argentinean tango on 9th October in the Aula
Magna of the Ateneo Dorico
(University Great Hall), as always close to “Ancona
Jazz”; and the traditional gospel concert, which is scheduled to be held on 26th
December this year, at Le Muse theatre, in conjunction with “Umbria Jazz”. But, as always, there might be a few last
minute surprises, and the jazz 2004 programme is set to be a top quality
affair, on a par with the year the theatre in Ancona
was reopened.
Info Associazione “Spaziomusica” tel. 0712074239
PROGRAM
