Accussi” does Radio Deejay at Easter in Riccione!
This year on the occasion of Easter the Department of tourism of the town of Riccione presents citizens and tourists on arrival a very special chocolate egg: if you unwrap it, you can hear cheerful voices and laughs, if you taste it, it savours of good mood, if you break it, the notes and the songs of the most popular radio of Italy come out. Inside there is the most joyful and trendy surprise that can be desired: its name is Deejay Square. (continua…)

Here we are! Friday March 14, 2008, at 21.15, Theatre of the Sea of Riccione. The event can not be missed, it is better you postpone any other appointment. Within Bravo Jazz festival, Charles McPherson Quartet is about to give birth to one of the most longed for concerts of the season of Riccione: “Bird, in a spirit of Charlie Parker”.
Charles McPherson is one of the great of jazz.
Vibrating alto sax, at the same time faithful and original follower of Charlie Parker, he is considered to be his heir.
He is defined by the New York Times “a singular voice that has never sacrificed the fluidity of its melody and is held in high consideration by the young musicians”.
Behind a long forty years career, he has a curriculum that gives the shudders, just like the poetry of his music.
He was born in Joplin, Missouri, but he grew up in Detroit where he took his first steps into music as a young student of the renowned pianist Barry Harris. After a brilliant debut, at 19 years old, he moved to New York in 1960 and met Charles Mingus: it began a mythical artistic companionship, which lasted, exciting, until 1972.
At the same period he gave life to his historic formation, composed by Barry Harris at the piano, Lonnie Hillyer on trumpet, and George Coleman to tenor sax. With them, but also alone engaged by the major jazz musicians of the time, he made long tours in the United States, Europe, Japan, South America and Africa. Collaborations for recordings are also important: we only mention those with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and his most recent and beloved “Manhattan Nocturne”. For Clint Eastwood he gave voice to the alto sax of Charlie Parker in the film “Bird”.
After the success achieved in the past few days in Parma, the Charles McPherson Quartet is ready to climb on the stage of Riccione.
The talented young formation is composed by the legendary alto sax, his son Chuk on drums, Michael Weiss to the piano, Rubin Rogers at the double bass. Here they are, with their tribute to Bird Charlie Parker, ready to vibrate, with infinite passion and skill, their instruments and the hearts of all those present in the hall.

At the Theater of the Sea of Riccione, in January the 18, at 21h15 plays the Jack Walrath Quintet, with the spectacle “In A Spirit of Mingus“.
The concert is part of the edition 2007/2008 of the music festival Bravo Jazz of Riccione, five appointments from November till Mars, among the great names there is also Tullio de Piscopo, Ed Simmon and Dave Binney.
There is a great attempt for the concert of the Quintet, led by the famous trumpet player Jack Walrath, accompanied by Abraham Burton, sax, Orrin Evans, piano, Boris Kozlov, bass and Jonathan Blake, drums.
The project “In A Spirit of Mingus” is inspired with the famous compositor, instrumentalist and leader of extraordinary groups, Charles Mingus, universally known for the rhythm of its music, strong, energized, spiritual and strongly attached to the roots of the gospel, the blues and of archaic jazz.
Jack Walrath, thanks to its talent, has written and arranged compositions for Mingus and under the terms of this reciprocal regard is born the project “In A Spirit of Mingus”.
The public will be fascinate from his innovating style, which personalizes the melodic lines giving vast space to solist performances of the components of group. It will be enraptured by the vibrations and the energy of a new music, deeply related to vitality of the black music of Count Basie and Ray Charles…
Lovers of the jazz don’t loose this appointment, enjoy a week-end in Riccione, www.visitriccione.com!

Also this year, the Culture Assessorship of Riccione organizes the musical festival Suoni Migranti, eighth edition, by Massimo Eusebio and Sabrina Raggini. The topic of the festival is the contamination of the musical kinds and styles. The five formations performing at the Theater of the Sea, not only mix the sounds and the melodies, but they are composed by people of different ethnic and cultural origins, which thanks to the music, meet, mix and contribute to a music production, little known at commercial level but that meet the enthusiasm and the participation of the public during the live concerts.

The program 2008 starts with the participation of Orchestra Porta Palazzo (12 January), an eccentric multiethnic orchestra, coming from this zone of Tourin, always hospital towards the immigrants where every day takes place one of the largest markets in Europe; follows the performance of Klezmatics (January 26), group of New York which carries to Italy the contaminated Jewish traditional musics arranged with jazz; Zina (February 9), Italian-African group which mixes North-African voices and Balkans wind instruments; Toumast (February 23), Maghrebian music group, able to create desert atmospheres full with Africa’s sounds, rock’n'roll, blues and implying guitar riff; the festival ends on the beach, around the fire, with the musics of Gli Orsi (18 Mars), romagnol trio neofolk fascinated by melodies of the tradition, original or arranged and contaminated by blues and jazz sounds.
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Cette année aussi le Théâtre « del Mare » de Riccione reçoit le festival à succès “Bravo Jazz“, qui arrive ainsi à sa cinquième édition. La manifestation, organisée par la Ville de Riccione, se vante comme toujours de la présence de noms célèbres du panorama jazz italien et étranger, et elle se déroulera chaque vendredi à 21h15, jusqu’au 14 Mars prochain.
Le 8 Février c’est le tour d’un grand trompettiste, appelé « l’américain des jazzmans italiens », Enrico Rava, qui fera un duo avec Dado Moroni, probablement le pianiste jazz italien le plus estimé et recherché à l’étranger.
La collaboration entre les deux artistes s’est consolidée avec le temps et représente une garantie de succès.
Né à Trieste en 1939, Rava a derrière soi quarante ans de carrière, plus que vingt albums et une liste interminable de collaborations, par exemple avec : John Abercrombie, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor, Dollar Brand, Franco D’Andrea, Miroslav Vitous, Daniel Humair, et beaucoup d’autres encore. Excellent compositeur, doué d’une grande créativité, mais aussi grand exécutant, le « poète de la trompette » est toujours capable de transmettre des émotions vives. Aujourd’hui, il travaille avec le pianiste Stefano Bollani et avec Gino Paoli.
Dado Moroni, génois, débutât au jeune âge de dix-sept ans avec Tullio de Piscopo et Franco Ambrosetti ; dans les années quatre-vingt il a fait partie du jury du prix international pianistique “Thelonious Monk” ainsi que du sextet de Alvin Queen pendant une tournée africaine. Il a travaillé avec Clark Terry et George Robert pour la célébration du sept centenaire de la Confédération Helvétique, dans une série de concerts où il se produisait en diverses parties du monde avec beaucoup de succès. En 1995 il travaille avec le pianiste classique Antonio Ballista pour le projet “Two Pianos Cine Soul”, et dans la même année il se produit au Japon.
La soirée sera présentée par le musicologue Maurizio Franco.
Le rendez-vous au Théâtre « del Mare » promet aussi pour les connaisseurs que pour les amateurs de bonne musique.