From 18 to 26 May 2024 the jazz festival returns to Treviso with concerts, exhibitions, screenings and workshops. Previews April 30th on the occasion of International Jazz Day.
The jazz festival is back again this year, and “Treviso Suona Jazz Festival”, event promoted by Urbano Contemporaneo ETS, in collaboration with the Municipality of Treviso and the Province of Treviso, returns with a rich program, a variety of styles, proposals, novelties.
Ten years have passed since we proposed to the municipal administration to organize a jazz festival in Treviso. Since then the event has made many steps forward, finding in the perfect combination of jazz music and art venues a format that was innovative for the city, and which was soon able to also involve outdoor venues and productive activities, having among its strong points quality, originality, and the ability to network with institutions, companies, and the associative world.
“Ten years of sounds and visions” tells of a project that has been able to renew itself from year to year, thanks to teamwork with competent and passionate people, driven by the attempt to create something significant, which was not there before in Treviso, and which, without presumption, we can say it was appreciated by the many people from Treviso and beyond who have been attending our concerts for some time.
Concerts with leading musicians on the national and international scene are also expected this year, exclusively for the Veneto Region, but at the same time the festival directed by Nicola Bortolanza preserves and strengthens the attention towards the new generations and the world of teaching . There is therefore no shortage of training workshops, as well as events dedicated to children, cinema and art exhibitions, confirming the multidisciplinarity of an event that is always inclusive, capable of forging synergies with organizations and the associative world.… read the rest of the article”
Parallel to the early evening concerts, free entry events take place in the city centre, with local artists and “female” jazz proposals, because the underlying idea is that jazz should be a shared heritage, to meet and listen to good live music together, in concert halls, but also in clubs, in the streets, in the squares.
The tenth anniversary edition is also enriched by a new graphic design and a visual identity renewed by Metodo Studio, Partner of the festival, which ranges from paper to digital, up to the creation of TSJF branded shoppers and mugs.
Looking back we see a journey that was at times tiring, but undoubtedly exciting. Organizing the jazz festival in the city of Treviso was a challenge, which has become a stronger and richer reality year after year. We are happy to have reached the tenth edition!
International Jazz Day
Off we go Tuesday 30 April at theAuditorium of the Benetton Foundation, on the occasion of the International Jazz Day promoted by UNESCO. The festival preview involves two internationally renowned musicians such as Gabriele Mirabassi, with his virtuoso clarinet, and Roberto Taufic, brilliant and versatile with his classical guitar. The duo presents ““A different Brazil”, a world of sound in which the cultured music and popular traditions of Brazil meet, and in which the richness of Brazilian music is explored in depth with the reinterpretation of a repertoire of songs and pieces from various eras. Brazil has been a very fertile source of inspiration for Mirabassi for many years, and is also the adopted land for Taufic, who lived in that country from an early age before moving to Italy, absorbing the multiple cultural stratification that is reflected in the music of this exciting project.
The inauguration
About a month later, Saturday 18 Maythe inauguration of the tenth edition is hosted by the prestigious Porsche center Treviso, Main Partner of TSJF. It will be a free entry event that involves established local musicians, engaged in a truly particular location, surrounded by iconic cars, in a very pleasant repertoire that ranges from manouche-inspired music to 1930s swing. In this acoustic ensemble, in in which melody and rhythmic tension alternate, the pictorial invention of Michele Uliana’s clarinet and Mattia Martorano’s violin is intertwined with the insistent pulsation of Davide Palladin’s guitar and Alessandro Turchet’s double bass. There will be a convivial moment with a glass of Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG offered by the Nino Franco winery, while the espresso coffee will be offered by Hausbrandt.
Evening events
The evening concerts are scheduled to begin Wednesday 22 May, with the Danish Trio of the saxophonist Max Ionata, expected in the auditorium of the Benetton Foundation. The renowned saxophonist from Abruzzo has forged ahead in a dizzying career, gaining the approval of critics and the public in just a few years, always enjoying great success in Italy and abroad. Max Ionata, Top Jazz in 2011, presents the new project “Like” at TSJF, a work composed largely of original compositions, and in which his sax, always warm and melodic, dialogues with two great exponents of Northern European jazz : double bass player Jesper Bodilsen and drummer Martin Maretti Andersen, two authentic Danish champions.
We continue Thursday 23 May, a day full of events in which music begins to enliven the streets of the center in the afternoon, with the Funkasin marching band. From 6.00 pm the attention is turned to the finissage of the art exhibition “Alchemy of matter”, curated by Roberta Gubitosi. The event, with free entry at the Spazio Lazzari, is characterized by the exhibition of works by Cristina Bruniera and Enrico Marcato, while the music is entrusted to the very close-knit duo composed of Francesca Bertazzo Hart, voice and guitar, and Beppe Pilotto on contrabass. In collaboration with Parajumpers and the Lazzari Cultural Association, there will be a convivial moment thanks to Theresianer beer.
In the evening we return to the auditorium of the Benetton Foundation. This time it’s the turn of the usual show in which live music is combined with the screening of a masterpiece of silent cinema from the early 1900s. The appointment with the silent film has become over the years one of the distinctive features of the festival, this edition sees the soundtrack of the film “The Oyster Princess”, a work by Ernst Lubitsch, a great little masterpiece of silent cinema in which it is possible recognize the distinctive signs that will make Lubitsch one of the fathers of comedy, a director capable of demonstrating his genius in creating light works with extraordinary grace and intelligence. Event in collaboration with Cineforum Labirinto, there will be a welcome coffee offered by Hausbrandt.
Friday 24 May one of the key events of this edition is scheduled at the auditorium of the Province of Treviso, where Fabrizio Bosso’s quartet lands. The Piedmontese musician marks a great return to TSJF, and this time he brings with him WE 4, a project with three extraordinary traveling companions, such as Julian Oliver Mazzariello on piano, Jacopo Ferrazza on double bass and Nicola Angelucci on drums, who has the awareness of value of making music together, and how this can become a moment of profound sharing, even beyond the stage. After countless concerts around the world, WE 4 is therefore the complete representation, in sound, interplay and composition, of total sharing between the four musicians.
But an unmissable and exclusively Italian concert is awaited Saturday 25 May in the setting of the Mario Del Monaco Theater, the stage of the most important city theater will be performed by the trio of the American pianist Fred Hersch, one of the most significant pianists of our times, an influential creative force, who has shaped the course of jazz music for over three decades as an improviser, composer, educator and bandleader. Hersch is a truly extraordinary artist, with a style that blends tradition and innovation, jazz language and classical culture, and whose lesson has largely passed on to the new generation of great jazz pianists, such as former students Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson. The trio, completed by equally formidable musicians such as Drew Gress on double bass and Joey Baron on drums, one of the most effective rhythm sections around, embodies in its maximum splendor the concept of the piano trio modeled on the Billevansian tradition, but the model is also widely updated: the harmonic developments, the rhythmic subtleties and the overall sound denote a strong, fully contemporary individuality.
Outdoor concerts, teaching and workshops
For the tenth consecutive year the festival confirms its collaboration with the Steffani Conservatory of Music of Castelfranco Veneto and the Manzato Association of Treviso, partners throughout the year of the monthly training courses. Teaching and learning are an integral part of the program and, thanks to the support of the Rotary Club Treviso Nord, this year too, scholarships will be awarded to young talents for the Umbria Jazz summer seminars.
In the afternoons of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May Free entry concerts are expected in the Loggia dei Cavalieri. The performances will see alternating young talents, students of the “Bebop is the modern language” workshop and teachers of the jazz department of the Castelfranco Veneto Conservatory. In particular, it is a formation of absolute prestige, the one that will bring together the teaching staff of the Steffani Conservatory on the afternoon of Sunday 26th, and which will see an ensemble composed of some of the most important Italian jazz musicians such as Gianluca Carollo, Mauro Ottolini, Francesca Bertazzo perform Hart, Ettore Martin, Federico Malaman, Bruno Cesselli, Luca Colussi.
During the weekend the educational events will also take place in the classrooms of the Manzato Association. This will happen with the listening guide “I Furrows of Jazz”, a journey started last October by Attilio Pisarri, and “Too young for jazz?”, a workshop dedicated to children, created with the aim to make musical attention flourish in very young people, to educate and bring the little ones closer to the world of music, with a playful approach based on musical improvisation.
Jazz & food
As always happens at TSJF, in parallel with the prime time concerts there is no shortage of events in the centre’s venues, dedicated to local artists and to those who want to combine good music with good food. Music that is enjoyable and accessible to everyone, even for non-specialists and for those who want to relax and enjoy a holiday in Treviso, because “the basic idea is that jazz should be a shared heritage, to meet and listen to good live music together, in the stalls, in the streets and squares”. The entire “Jazz & food” program can be consulted on the festival website, in particular Piola, Dump, Bloom and Home Rock Bar will be protagonists with double events, but there will also be other venues to enliven the festival evenings, to become points of aggregation of those who experience jazz even outside of concert halls.
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