The festival is on Tuesday 14 May New Conversations – Vicenza Jazz continues at the Olympic Theater with one of its most anticipated protagonists: the Cuban clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Riverachampion of latin jazzof which he is one of the most esteemed exponents.
Rarely heard live in Italy, D’Rivera will perform at 9pm in a quintet with Sebastian Laverde (vibraphone), Pepe Rivero (piano), Gaston Joya (double bass) and Mauricio Zottarelli (drums).
Concerts on Tuesday 14 May
7pm, Basilica Palladiana
Proxima – The young side
Luca Sguera & Margherita Fava
Luca Sguera (piano), Margherita Fava (piano)
9pm, Teatro Olimpico
Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
Paquito D’Rivera (clarinet, alto sax), Sebastian Laverde (vibraphone),
Pepe Rivero (piano), Gaston Joya (double bass), Mauricio Zottarelli (drums)
10.30pm, Basilica Palladiana
After Hours – Concerts at the end of the main events
The Last Coat of Pink
“Water’s Break” (music by Björk)
Alberto Dipace (piano), Danilo Gallo (double bass, bass balalaika),
Kathya West (vocals, bawu flute, ‘mbira, percussion)
“Proxima – The young side”
Then the afternoon appointments of “Proxima – The young side” begin, which will continue on a daily basis until the end of the festival, giving space to the most interesting new generations of improvised music. It starts with the duo formed by pianists Luca Sguera And Margherita Fava (7pm, Basilica Palladiana).
The “After Hours” section is also underway, the ‘night-time’ concerts for after the theatre. At 10.30 pm at the Basilica Palladiana you will listen to the tribute to Björk’s music proposed by the trio The Last Coat of Pinknamely Alberto Dipace (piano), Danilo Gallo (double bass) and Kathya West (vocals).
The New Conversations – Vicenza Jazz 2024 festival, with the artistic direction of Riccardo Brazzale, is promoted by the Municipality of Vicenza in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro Comunale Città di Vicenza, in co-production with Trivellato Mercedes Benz, with AGSM AIM as main sponsor, with the support from Sonus Faber and with Acqua Recoaro and Brutal Agency as technical sponsors.
Paquito D’Rivera
A living monument of latin jazz. Born in Havana in 1948, he was introduced to music at an early age by his father, who is a classical saxophonist but also with a clear passion for listening to jazz. During his studies at the Havana Conservatory of Music he met Chucho Valdés with whom in 1967 he created the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna. But it was in 1973 that the two laid the foundations for their legend: they founded the group Irakere, mixing jazz, rock, classical and Cuban music. A mix with Western music certainly not too pleasing to the Cuban regime: it was precisely the continuous interference of the communist government that pushed D’Rivera to ask for political asylum from the United States in 1980.
Even in his new homeland he soon emerges as a beacon of latin jazz. He collaborates with McCoy Tyner, George Coleman, Chick Corea, Tito Puente, Astor Piazzolla, while in his formations he welcomes young musicians, projecting them towards international fame (Michel Camilo, Danilo Pérez, Hilton Ruiz, Claudio Roditi). In 1989 he joined one of the most amazing Afro-Latin orchestras that have ever graced the stage, the United Nation Orchestra created by Dizzy Gillespie, of which he himself became director after Gillespie’s death.
He is the only artist who can boast of having won the Grammy Award for both jazz and jazz music latin and also the classical one. And D’Rivera has won quite a few awards: the last two at the 2023 Latin Grammys for best Latin/jazz album (I Missed You Too!with Chucho Valdes) and for the best contemporary classical composition (the Venezolan concertrecorded by trumpeter Pacho Flores for the Deutsche Grammophon).
Luca Sguera
Pianist, composer, improviser. After several years living between Siena, Berlin, Copenhagen and Amsterdam he moved to Verona. He loves to investigate sound as a stratification of signs and meanings, through a practice that makes rhythm and timbre its key points. He has published his works as a leader and sideman for various labels including Auand, Ilk, Tanca, Tǔk. His most recent recording is the only one slowly, exploded (2023, Shhpuma/Clean Feed).
Margherita Fava
As part of the keyboard explorations that characterize Vicenza Jazz 2024, Sguera will duet with the pianist Margherita Fava, already protagonist of the Piano Summit at the Teatro Olimpico. Born in 1995 in Follina to classical musician parents, she began studying the piano at the age of ten. Seventeen years old, she takes part in a summer jazz course sponsored by the New School of New York in Venice, and her personal story takes an unexpected direction: her newly blossomed passion for jazz adds up to a scholarship in Michigan. Here she studied with Xavier Davis and found a mentor in bassist Rodney Whitaker. She then earned a master’s degree at the University of Tennessee and studied piano with Eric Reed and composition with Greg Tardy. Her determination accompanies her until her debut album, the EP Okra/Search of the Unknown (2022), and the first album, Tatatu (2023, 4 stars out DownBeat).
Artistic direction: Riccardo Brazzale
Press office: Daniele Cecchini
Information Municipal Theater of Vicenza
tel. 0444 324442 – [email protected]
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Tickets
Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
Full price: €25 + dp | Over 65 and Under 25: €20 + dp
Proxima – The young side
Single price: €5 + dp
After Hours
Free entry
Entrance coupons are available for the concerts scheduled in the Basilica Palladiana and on the stage of the Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, available online and at the TCVI ticket office.
Reductions for Touring Club members: 10% discount on the active rates of individual tickets for the main concerts (Teatro Comunale di Vicenza and Teatro Olimpico).
Subscriptions
Subscription to 4 concerts
Uri Caine Quartet + Uri Caine Ensemble plays Gershwin [16/05]; Omar Sosa & Marialy Pacheco + Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu [17/05]; Trilok Gurtu + Dhafer Youssef & Eivind Aarset [18/05]Bill Frisell Trio [19/05]
Full price: €89 | Over 65 and Under 25 and Touring Club Members: €76
Pre-sales
Ticket office of the Municipal Theater of Vicenza
tel. 0444 324442 – [email protected]
online: www.vicenzajazz.org; www.tcvi.it
day of the concert: at the ticket office, from one hour before the start (without right of advance sale)
