30. Kasseler Jazzfest - Enrico Pieranunzi: Piano Solo - 12.10
30. Kasseler Jazzfest – Enrico Pieranunzi: Piano Solo – 12.10
Enrico Pieranunzi: Piano Solo
Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2022, 20.15 Uhr, TiF – Theater im Fridericianum
Eintritt: 22 Euro, erm. & Mitgl.: 18 Euro / last minute AK: 10 Euro (nur Studenten u. Schüler)
Auch in diesem Herbst besteht wieder die Möglichkeit, einzigartige Jazzkonzerte zu erleben, denn zwischen dem 8. und 14. Oktober findet das 30. Kasseler Jazzfest statt. Am Staatstheater…
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Charlie Haden with Chet Baker, Enrico Pieranunzi, Billy Higgins – Silence (Full Album)
Silence is an album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden recorded in 1987 and released on the Italian Soul Note label two years later.
Charlie Haden – bass
Chet Baker – trumpet
Enrico Pieranunzi – piano
Billy Higgins – drums
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As a contributing writer, I contributed an hour of programming and suggested some other tunes.
Posted at https://www.wgte.org/blog/this-week-on-jazz-spectrum-210
PROGRAMMER’S NOTES—Song of the Week (“I Should Care”) and a Coda
Set 5/9 pm
Frank Sinatra, The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, vol. 2, “I Should Care”
Lee Konitz/Enrico Pieranunzi, Solitudes, “I Should Care”
Sonny Rollins, Falling in Love with Jazz, I Should Care”
Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Himself, “I Should Care”
Set 6
Thelonious Monk, Milt Jackson & the Thelonious Monk Quintet, “I Should Care”
Alan Broadbent, Pacific Standard Time, “I Should Care”
Steve Wilson, Blues for Marcus, “I Should Care”
Julie London, Julie Is Her Name, “I Should Care”
Set 7
Aaron Diehl and the Knights (with Nicole Glover), Zodiac Suite, “Cancer”
Miki Yamanaka, Shades of Rainbow, “Song for Mary Lou”
Sean Mason, Southern Suite, “Lavender”
Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable, “Victory Is Assured (Alla Breve)”
I often decline Fritz’s annual invitation to write about my favorite albums of the year. I don’t track new album releases nor do I feel I have a wide enough vantage point. In his January 5th blog, Fritz took up the decline of record labels and albums. I could falsely assert that I’ve been ahead of that curve, but the reality is that I’m just part of the problem.
But I do pore over his lists to catch up on things I should know about. Mark Turner’s Live at the Village Vanguard was at the top of that list. Alas, it isn’t available on the well-known streaming service that takes my money and gives precious little to the artist, so I haven’t yet heard it. But they do have Turner on an album with Miki Yamanaka, who plays a monthly late-night set at Small’s on Mondays with husband Jimmy McBride on drums and an available bass player before she supervises the jam session at midnight. I like Yamanaka’s pluck, her smarts, and her chops, so when I found a set of her trio with Turner from August 2022 I was on it, navigating the Small’s Live Archive to plumb its riches yet again.
They did “I Should Care” which undoubtedly I’ve heard, and it was the most striking tune of that night. So I looked it up in Ted Gioia’s “Jazz Standards (Second Edition)” to find that he framed it as a quintessential world-weary Frank Sinatra song with stunning solo versions by Thelonious Monk. More than sufficient for me to explore further.
Gioia recommends versions by Bud Powell and Bill Evans, among others. I could have just followed his recommendations for this or any song and cranked out a perfectly acceptable Song of the Week playlist. I enjoyed following those leads but didn’t deny myself the fun of finding other versions and making my own juxtapositions.
But the Sinatra opener is irresistible, so, with thanks to Mr. Gioia, I did not resist and put the Riverside Monk solo version (the earlier of the two that Gioia recommends) to end the first set. The middle of the first set is given to two master saxophone improvisers deep into their venerable careers. Listening to Lee Konitz and Sonny Rollins side by side is a chance to learn so much about the tune and jazz improvisation in general.
If we hear Monk solo to close the first set, the second set opener is another chance to hear him explore the composition, this time with Kenny “Pancho” Hagood’s vocal and, even better, Milt Jackson’s vibraphone extending the conversation about the tune and improvisation that Konitz and Rollins started.
Alan Broadbent’s and Steve Wilson’s versions are worthy too. I know them from the streams I got to know and treasure from the 2020 lockdown, the renewing pitcher of lemonade I started making from the lemons live and the pandemic gave me. Small’s and Mezzrow’s in particular stream all their sets, and Smoke Jazz Club also presents several streaming sets every weekend. Like Yamanaka, Broadbent is a favorite whose elegant sets with Harvie S and Billy Mintz I never miss. His “I Should Care” is with a different trio from roughly 30 years ago, but he brings that same touch and deep knowledge to this version. Steve Wilson’s presence on a gig makes it worth attention. On one of the ones I’ve caught, the pianist Bill Charlap said nobody makes a tune sing like he does. I haven’t settled on how he sings, but he’s a perfectly modern altoist who is not in Charlie Parker’s broad lineage, nor Konitz’s. That makes his version of the Song of the Week worthy.
My coda, the last set of the hour, is a further celebration of favorites from the streams. Fritz honored Aaron Diehl’s masterful orchestration of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite on his Best of 2023 list. “Cancer” features Nicole Glover’s tenor solo, and she is a treasure. The Yamanaka album with Turner conveniently has “A Song for Mary Lou” as a complement to Diehl with Glover. Sean Mason used to do amazing duets with trumpeter Giveton Gelin at Mezzrow’s, “just playing tunes,” as he put it from the bandstand after one of their stunning extended suites. He’s a precocious melodist and his album is full of them, lush and catchy. Finally, Ethan Iverson gets himself to Mezzrow’s often enough to work through standards and compositional ideas that have born fruit in his new “Technically Acceptable” album. His “Victory Is Assured (Alla Breve)” is meant to evoke Kansas City and Count Basie, just as he did in a Mezzrow set that featured both Basie and Ellington, although more of the former.
I too may “just be playing/programming tunes.” Still, they are ones that I should care about—and I do.
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Pergolesi Spontini Festival 2023
Salti di gioia è il tema della XXIII edizione del Pergolesi Spontini Festival, manifestazione itinerante con pagine inedite e capolavori dei due grandi compositori marchigiani nell’ambito di un cartellone ideato per incontrare pubblici di età e gusti differenti, curato dalla Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini con la direzione artistica di Cristian Carrara.
Il festival si terrà nelle Marche dal 29 luglio al 26 settembre, tra Jesi, Maiolati Spontini, Monsano, Cingoli, Montecarotto, Morro D’Alba, Poggio San Marcello, San Paolo di Jesi e Serra De’ Conti, dove artisti internazionali e giovani talenti saranno protagonisti di 30 appuntamenti diffusi sul territorio, dal barocco al classico, dal jazz al pop, dalla musica sacra all’operetta, dalla letteratura a nuovi format di musica-gioco.
Apre il Festival lo spettacolo musicale Ci vuole orecchio, sabato 29 luglio ore 21 in Piazza Federico II a Jesi, in cui Elio canta e recita Enzo Jannacci, con la regia di Giorgio Gallione e cinque musicisti sul palcoscenico.
Sotto le stelle ci sono il 30 luglio Songs and Dances con Marco Attura sul podio del Times Machine Ensemble e il violoncello di Erica Piccotti, il 3 agosto Niccolò Fabi in concerto, il 4 agosto il bandoneonista Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi e l’Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia, il 5 agosto “Operetta mon amour” con l’Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia Giulia diretta da Romolo Gessi, il 6 agosto il trio jazz Enrico Pieranunzi, Gabriele Pieranunzi e Gabriele Mirabassi.
Tra gli eventi dedicati ai due compositori ci sarà un’esecuzione dello Stabat mater di Pergolesi l’8 settembre, con il Time Machine Ensemble diretto da Marco Attura, che sarà poi a Rodi in ottobre per il Terra Sancta Organ Festival” n collaborazione e con il contributo di Italiafestival, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale e Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Atene.
Per Gaspare Spontini, in vista delle celebrazioni del 2024 per i 250 anni dalla nascita, che sarà l’occasione di allestire una nuova produzione della Vestale in coproduzione con importanti teatri di tradizione italiani, il Festival 2023 propone due giorni di “Spontini days” a Maiolati Spontini, il 23 e 24 settembre, con la prima esecuzione in epoca moderna di alcune pagine dell’Alcidor di Spontini di cui è in corso la revisione musicologica a cura della Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini.
Nel programma degli Spontini Days ci sarà anche una caccia al tesoro musicale dedicata ai bambini in collaborazione con Istituto Comprensivo C. Urbani di Moie e la presentazione di due nuovi libri, Gaspare Spontini. The Berlin years di Fabian Kolb e Alessandro Lattanzi per la casa editrice LIM Libreria Musicale Italiana nella collana Studi e saggi, e Sulle tracce di Gaspare Spontini. Profilo di un compositore europeo dalla scrittura 1774-1851 di Lucia Benedos e Patrizia Rizzi per Affinità Elettive Edizioni.
Sempre dedicato a Spontini è il Concerto Spiritual di Roberto Prosseda che il 16 settembre dona la sua musica nei luoghi dove c’è sofferenza, seguendo l’esempio del compositore che aveva l’abitudine di organizzare ogni anno un appuntamento musicale per i più poveri.
Lo stesso programma sarà presentato da Prosseda alle 21 al pubblico del Teatro Pergolesi di Jesi nell’ambito del Concerto Piano with joy.
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Trento, il Parco delle Albere si trasforma in un palcoscenico erboso per musica e teatro
Trento, il Parco delle Albere si trasforma in un palcoscenico erboso per musica e teatro.
Dal 2 al 6 luglio, il Parco delle Albere di Trento si trasforma in un palcoscenico erboso per musica e teatro: torna “I Suoni delle Albere”.
Il festival, ideato e proposto dall’Associazione Culturale Il Vagabondo, sbarca per il terzo luglio consecutivo sulla distesa erbosa de “Le Albere Park”.
Il programma prevede rinfrescanti serate di musica e teatro en plein air, a partire dalla serata inaugurale del 2 luglio, con protagonisti la splendida voce jazz di Simona Severini ed il pluripremiato pianista, compositore e arrangiatore Enrico Pieranunzi.
Fino ad arrivare alla serata conclusiva del 6 luglio con lo spettacolo “Com'è ancora umano lei, caro Fantozzi” dell’indimenticabile signorina Silvani, l’attrice Anna Mazzamauro.
La rassegna è uno dei numerosi e variegati appuntamenti dell’iniziativa “Trento Aperta”, del Comune di Trento, che vede l’estate della città popolarsi di coinvolgenti iniziative artistiche, culturali e sportive per tutti i gusti ed età....
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(Challenge)In its best moments, the Italian pianist’s tribute to the American classical-jazz pioneer is breathtakingIn the 1950s, an American band, the Modern Jazz Quartet, was the first to gain wide popular success by mixing the idioms of jazz and...
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