BargaJazz, directed by Giancarlo Rizzardi, initially came about as a contest for musical arrangements and compositions for Jazz orchestra.
Over the years, this has been accompanied by an increasing number of other initiatives.
This year’s contest is dedicated to the PIETRO TONOLO, one of the most significant jazz musicians on the Italian and European circuits, with over 90 albums to his name.
Since 1987, when the Barga Orchestra was invited to the Paris Jazz Festival, Tonolo has collaborated with Barga a number of times, both as participant with the BargaJazz Orchestra, and as member of the contest’s panel of judges.
Details:
17 August – 21:00 STEFANO ONORATI TRIO plus FRANCESCO BEARZATTI
Stefano Onorati – piano, Walter Paoli – drums, Stefano Senni – double bass, Francesco Bearzatti – saxes
18 August – 17:00 BARGA IN JAZZ
music for the streets, alleys and squares of the old town centre with MAGICABOOLA BRASS BAND and many others…
18 August – 18:00 – S. Christopher Cathedral
OPUS DUO
Rossano Emili – baritone sax, Pedro Spallati – tenor sax
18 August – 21:30 NOTE NOIRE
Ruben Chaviano – violin, Roberto Beneventi – accordion,
Tommaso Papini – guitar, Mirco Capecchi – double bass
19/20 August – BargaJazz Contest 2013
(contest reserved for up and coming bands of 3 to 7 elements)
21 August TONOLO – TCHAKERIAN – BIRRO
Pietro Tonolo – saxes, Sonig Tchakerian – violin, Paolo Birro – piano
22 August – IMPERMANENCE DANCE THEATER
dance and musical improvisations by Nicolao Valiensi
23/24 August – XXVI International contest for jazz orchestra compositions and arrangements. BARGAJAZZ ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY MARIO RAJA with guest PIETRO TONOLO
presents the content programme MICHELA LOMBARDI
BARGAJAZZ ORCHESTRA 2013:
Andrea Tofanelli, Andrea Guzzoletti, Stefano Benedetti, Alessio Bianchi (trumpets)
Nicolao Valiensi, Silvio Bernardi, Marcello Angeli, Davide Guidi (trombones)
Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Renzo Telloli, Alessandro Rizzardi, Moraldo Marcheschi, Rossano Emili (saxes)
Angelo Lazzeri (guitar), Luca Gusella (vibraphone),
Stefano Onorati (piano), Milko Ambrogini (double bass), Alessandro Fabbri (drums)
25/26/27 August – Jazz Dinner
jazz dinners with the restaurants in the old town centre.
28 August – ARRIGHINI – BASS DUO
Riccardo Arrighini – piano, Aldo Bassi – trumpet
29 August – Jacopo Martini Quartet feat Mirco Mariottini
Jacopo Martini – guitar, Mirco Mariottini – clarinets, Tommaso Papini – guitar, Guido Zorn, double bass.
30 August – Sea Sonet Project – P.O. Italia – Francia Marittimo 2007 – 2013:
Musical Production Province of Grosseto “7 MODI” with STEFANO COCCO CANTINI conducting and saxes, ANTONELLO SALIS accordion and piano, Francesco Petreni – drums, Raffaele Tonielli – double bass, Andrea Lagi – trumpet, Valentina Toni – vocals, Aldo Milani – sax/flute, Enrico Rustici – ottavatore,
Performance and Dance co-ordinated by Cristina Riparbelli,
General Consultancy of Simona Rafanelli, with the participation of Jérôme Casalonga – vocals
31 August – BARGA OUT JAZZ… ENOJAZZ NIGHT…
concerts and wine tasting in the piazzas of the old town centre with local wine producers.
by car: from Lucca ss12 towards Abetone, then take ss445 road towards Castelnuovo Garfagnana until Fornaci di Barga, here follow the signs for Barga. Park outside the city wall.
Buses from Lucca.
0583724418, info@bargajazz.it
Barga Jazz was born in 1986 and its editions have been very important for the diffusion and knowledge of particularly significant composers in the history of Jazz music: from Charles Mingus to John Coltrane, from Bill Evans to Miles Davis, from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald. However, Barga Jazz has also been dedicated to less well known figures, in search of those experiences of contamination which this type of music, born among the Afroamericans in North America, has gone through with other musical traditions. For this reason, the theme for Barga Jazz 96 was based on the relationship between jazz and Latin America, and in ’98 was dedicated to the European composer Gorni Kramer. In 2000 and 2001 the protagonists of the contest were Enrico Rava and Gianluigi Troversi. The 2003 edition was dedicated to Lee Konitz, who played as soloist of the orchestra.
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