Stefano Bollani with his trio (Bernardo Guerra on drums and Gabriele Evangelista on double bass) will kick off Jazz & Wine in Montalcino, the festival born 24 years ago from the collaboration between the Banfi winery, the Rubei family of Alexanderplatz Jazz Club of Rome and the Municipality of Montalcino.
The versatile pianist will perform on Tuesday 20 July on the opening night at the Fortezza di Montalcino, giving life to a unique concert where the only rule is to have fun improvising. A journey that embraces all of music, which does not know genres and superstructures, in which the three instruments come together to create a new and extraordinary musical world every evening.
The festival whose artistic direction is signed by Paolo Rubei (Alexanderplatz Jazz Club in Rome), then continues until July 25 with other musicians who tell the best of Italian genius.
On Wednesday 21 July, Jazz & Wine moves to Castello Banfi: protagonist Stefano Di Battista with his "Morricone Stories", a heartfelt tribute to Ennio Morricone, one of the masters who brought the Italian genius to the world. A project that signs the perfect marriage between jazz and film music and which sees the pianist Fred Nardin, the double bass player Daniele Sorrentino and the drummer André Ceccarelli alongside the saxophonist Stefano Di Battista.
Also in the courtyard of the Banfi Castle, an appointment on Thursday 22 July with "Improvvisazione di piano solo", the show in which Danilo Rea, one of the greatest Italian pianists, will range from the cornerstones of jazz, passing through Italian songs, up to opera arias , projecting viewers into a world whose paths are yet to be discovered.
Swing, swing and more swing on Friday 23 July in the Fortress of Montalcino arrives with Emanuele Urso, the "King of Swing" with the Swing Sextet of Rome (Emanuele Urso, clarinet/drums/conductor; Claudio Piselli, vibraphone; Emanuele Rizzo, piano; Fabrizio Guarino, guitar; Alessio Urso, double bass; Giovanni Cicchirillo, drums). A journey that starts from the US sounds of the 40s to get to the major composers of American pop music (G. Gershwin, J. Kern, C. Porter, I. Berlin, B. Goodman) and which makes use of the presence of a special special guests like Lorenzo Soriano (trumpet).
The binomial music and cinema will be the protagonist of the appointment on Saturday 24 July, when, on the stage of the Montalcino Fortress, the Observatorium orchestra composed of some of the best musicians of Italian jazz and directed by Massimo Nunzi (trumpet, direction and arrangements) will propose " Jazz in Cinemascope”, a concert which, by exploring the scores of some famous films, will allow you to listen to music of great complexity, rarely performed.
Sunday 25 July closing with Alex Britti's guitar in the Fortezza di Montalcino in a show that revisits his repertoire in a more intimate, elegant and pressing key at the same time. With him on stage Flavio Boltro, eclectic and refined trumpeter. A meeting between two accomplices and close-knit musicians for a project dedicated to improvisation with a blues and jazz flavor, which is enriched by the talent of Davide Savarese on drums, Emanuele Brignola on bass and Mario Fanizzi on piano and keyboards. (Information and contacts: www.jazzandwinementalcino.it)
Jazz & Wine in Montalcino is a cultural project born in 1998, from an innovative intuition between the Banfi company, the Rubei family of Alexanderplatz in Rome, the territory and the institutions.
The intuition, simple but very effective, was to unite and bring together, in a synergistic and original way, two of the most intimate and intense earthly passions; quality wine and music, jazz music to be precise. Two passions that required, to be fully enjoyed and perceived, the same rhythms of involvement, the same predisposition and cultural openness.
Institutional support was also fundamental from the outset, with the Municipality of Montalcino.
Banfi had approached the exciting world of jazz music in 1996, starting a collaboration with the Jazz Festival of Villa Celimontana in Rome, a festival conceived and directed by Giampiero Rubei: for the first time jazz music was combined with wine, instead of traditional” beer.
The festival has grown with the participation of the most prestigious Italian and international musicians. For Bollani it is a great comeback, the musician was in fact called 13 years ago to inaugurate the festival.
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