The program of the Santa Giuliana Arena of Umbria Jazz is completed.
On July 12th an unmissable double set: Richard Galliano’s New York Tango trio and Vinicio Capossela’s concert in memory of Sergio Piazzoli.
RICHARD GALLIANO
NEW YORK TANGO TRIO
Richard Galliano changed the course of the history of the accordion. We can talk about before and after Galliano.” It is the exhaustive, shareable opinion of Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Björk’s accordionist and accompanist. Richard Galliano, French, accordion virtuoso, much loved by the Italian public and at home in Umbria Jazz. Galliano is also the only accordionist who has recorded for the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon (records by Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Nino Rota). His technical mastery and “orchestral” vision of the accordion have moved forward what before him were considered the limits of the instrument, making it “a Steinway with straps”, as he likes to say. Galliano has recorded more than 50 albums under his own name and collaborated with an impressive number of prestigious artists and musicians of the most diverse genres: Chet Baker, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Charlie Haden, Gary Burton, Michel Portal, Kurt Elling, Serge Reggiani, Claude Nougaro, Juliette Gréco, Charles Aznavour, Serge Gainsbourg, Nigel Kennedy. He is a great specialist in Argentine tango and new French musette. Galliano had the merit of making the accordion a leading instrument also in jazz and in the classical repertoire. He manages to pass through the most diverse genres while always remaining himself, with that unmistakable “French touch” made of elegance, natural musicality, feeling that never fails to fascinate audiences all over the world. His current projects range from accordion solo to concerts with orchestra, including the New York Tango Trio (Richard Galliano, accordion; Adrien Moignard, guitar; Diego Imbert, double bass), which he presents in Perugia on July 12th.
VINICIO CAPOSSELA
OLD KEYS
Room to the south
thirty years
concert for Sergio Piazzoli
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Camera a Sud, Altri Keys, Vinicio Capossela’s summer tour will give way to Vecchi Keys, a unique concert in which the thirteen songs from the album published in 1994 will be performed. The show resumes experience started in 2020 with the Round one thirty five – Personal standards tour. Capossela’s first three albums are the closest, in terms of writing and arrangements, to the form of the so-called standards, as they are understood in jazz music. Songs that draw musically from swing, ballad and Latin, performed by musicians who are specialists in these genres. A standard is a song that has a defined structure, melody, and soundboard that can be reinterpreted over time by drawing on the language of a shared heritage. The thirtieth anniversary is not intended to be so much a celebration, but a reinterpretation with the awareness that it derives from a different phase of life.
«Playing these songs is a way of continuing to inhabit them, animated more by the feeling of gratitude rather than that of nostalgia».
It will be a journey on the edge of time, which from the present takes a look at the biographical urgencies of thirty years ago in an itinerary on the musical time machine to understand, if possible, what this love of which songs sing is: the revelation of individual need, the enchantment that subtracts the will, the revolutionary matrix of the world, a fatality, a fury, a three o’clock ghost or a stone in the shoe. Between returns at dawn and youthful idleness, carousels on the street and walkers, ancient emotions will therefore be awakened to be reinterpreted with a heightened musical awareness and a conscience enriched by experience; the past will be evoked not with a non-antiquarian spirit, but with an achieved sense of gratitude.
The concert is a tribute to Sergio Piazzoli, a great promoter from Perugia, who was an admirer and friend of Vinicio from the beginning, and is organized in collaboration with the “For Sergio Piazzoli” Committee for the celebrations ten years after his death.
Vinicio Capossela
Enrico Lazzarini, double bass
Zeno De Rossi, drums
Giancarlo Bianchetti, guitar
Antonio Marangolo, saxophone and percussion
Michele Vignali, saxophone
Raffaele Tiseo, violin
Daniela Savoldi, cello
Piero Odorici, saxophone
The spotlight was already on Vinicio Capossela when “All’una e Thirtycinque Circa” was released, his debut album under the guidance of Renzo Fantini. He started from that first work, more than thirty years ago, a style outside the box and rippled with euphoric contaminations. Whimsical beyond the foreseeable, cultured in his references to Modigliani and Oscar Wilde, and popular in the San Vito dance, Capossela is a multifaceted talent, perfectly at ease in song and also in different scenarios such as writing, poetry, cinema, radio, theatre, artistic direction of festivals. Also for this reason he is considered by many to be the most important Italian singer-songwriter of his generation.
A thunderous debut, in 1990, many saw a sort of Italian Tom Waits, perhaps more lunar but with the same taste for the grotesque and for night owl ballads that smack of visionary existentialism. “At around one thirty-five” earned him his first victory at the Premio Tenco. Five more will follow.
For an artist so unconventional, successes soon arrived even beyond national borders: already in 1995 he achieved a prestigious sold out performance at the Theater de la Ville in Paris.
The popular roots recovered from his origins (he was born in Hanover to parents from Irpinia) and at the same time the literary references, including Dante’s, have become ever stronger in Vinicio Capossela’s artistic career, while the music has become more complex (for example, Marc Ribot’s acidic guitar and the Macedonian brass bands are also at play) without losing the naturalness of the melodic invention. An artistic journey that has materialized in countless tours and theater projects and in eighteen studio and live albums, the most recent being Thirteen urgent songs.
Capossela also stopped by the Sanremo festival, was a guest at both the Spoleto and Umbria Jazz festivals (an evening at the Giardini del Frontone, and Ribot was also in the band) and in 2015 he inaugurated the first edition of the Moon festival in June, a festival created by Sergio Piazzoli, with his direction.
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