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October 29, 2021 The Capital is the stage of great international music.
Everything is ready for the start of the 45th edition of the Rome Jazz Festival, which from 1 to 21 November will animate the Eternal City with 19 concerts at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and at the Monk, as well as a series of preparatory meetings at the Casa del Jazz.
Directed by Mario Ciampà, the Rome Jazz Festival 2021 offers a rich and articulated program.
In the exhibition entitled 'Jazz Code' you will be able to listen to the new New York trumpet Theo Croker and discover, thanks to Theon Cross, how a particular instrument such as the tuba has ended up at the center of the most innovative London scene. Explore the sounds of the young Italian-Tunisian LNDFK, daughter of the most contemporary Naples, and plunge into the metropolitan underworld with the nocturnal post-bop of the Milanese Studio Murena. Witness the encounter between the meditative introspection and the attention to civil rights of The Vijay Iyer Trio and celebrate the masked hero Zorro with the Tinissima Quartet. Change the course of a concert directly from the mobile app as in the live of Tin Men and The telephone and relive the experience of famous videogames to the sound of jazz as in the project, in national preview,of the Young Art Jazz Ensemble directed by Mario Corvini. Go wild with the space funk of Tangrams and the electronic and cosmic jazz of Gianluca Petrella. Getting lost among the cinematic forays of La Battery and the reckless trajectories of Ugoless. Reflect on Paolo Damiani's future memories and on the hope of a different future as Giovanni Guidi does with the Little Italy Orchestra.
And then there are the great names of the world pantheon of jazz music such as the tenor sax Joe Lovano, for the first time in Italy together with the Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski, the guitarist John Scofield in duo with the double bass of Dave Holland, the famous pianist Brad Mehldau, saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin and Roberto Fonseca, considered by many to be Havana's Herbie Hancock.
In a historical moment in which the opportunity to return to a normal life is glimpsed, the Roma Jazz Festival 2021 is thus celebrating its 45th edition with a spirit of openness, projecting itself into the inevitable technological future with an ever attentive look to the public more young. This is the meaning of the title of this edition, 'Jazz Code': jazz as an open source genre par excellence, an open code that since its inception has lived through crossovers, contaminations, appropriations and re-elaborations, always in search of new sounds, new atmospheres, new forms.
The managing director of the Musica per Roma Foundation Daniele Pittèri explains the spirit of the event: “A generation that has developed a completely new 'Jazz Code' that expresses unprecedented influences and is deeply influenced by the new technologies of the digital age. There will also be a look at the past in the cultural offer with the series of preparatory meetings at the Casa del Jazz, an essential look to better understand contemporary jazz ". The artistic director Mario Ciampà echoes him: "An edition, the 45th, in the sign of a restart of cultural activities, which will address the different aspects that jazz music is taking on after two difficult years: from the social one, such as racial integration, to that of the commitment to safeguard the planet; and, last but not least,to an anticipatory vision of a different future. "