T.adorns the Torino Jazz Festival and this year celebrates the double figure: in fact, the tenth edition is about to start, with nine days of programming and over 50 events, for what is one of the most important jazz music reviews at an international level. The billboard sweeps from the mainstream to the new improvisational languages, passing through rock, the avant-garde, the new European progressive and electronics. It is written jazz but it means “everything that is around jazz”, and it embraces different variations of jazz.
Artchipel and Jonathan Coe. (Press Office)
The artists on the Main Stage
It will take place from 11 to 19 June with big international names, original productions, Italian and European premieres that will alternate in the Main Stage, while the Jazz Cl (H) UB section it will involve the jazz clubs of the city: 27 events on the bill, divided between performances, thematic jam sessions and other forms of artistic expression, with particular attention to emerging musicians. There will be meetings, conferences, Jazz Blitzes that will bring jazz to those who cannot reach concert venues, involving young students from music schools and the Conservatory.
On the bill by groups of twenty-year-olds from Mixtape or Always Know Quartet up to the deans Milton Nascimento and Buster Williams and then go by a poet and rapper like Kae Tempest to a war reporter and journalist like Domenico Quirico, in dialogue with John Vignola; from a writer like Jonathan Coe in concert with Artchipel Orchestra to a dancer like the Canadian Sandy Silva together with Ananasnna from Turin; from a contemporary organist like the Norwegian Ståle Storløkken, a big band from Helsinki, the UMO, with Jimi Tenor to a meeting with Afro-Italian artists curated by the writer Fabio Geda.
Then, the memory of who is no longer with important tributes such as the one concerning Charles Mingus with “Mingus 100” celebrated with four excellent “bass solo concerts” or by the ‘The Golden Age’ concert by the Torino Jazz Orchestra which focuses on the great music of Armando Trovajoli or the FFM Jazz Faculty which celebrates Cesare Pavese.
The program of the Torino Jazz Festival
Looking here and there in the billboard it stands out Saturday 11 June, on the opening day of the Festivalin addition to the Mingusian memory, the concerts in jazz clubs including an original reinterpretation of a great classic of contemporary music, “In C” by Terry Riley reworked by a quartet of Turin musicians, Berts, Chirico, Dellapiana, Mazza, to modular synthesizers.
June 15 Milton Nascimento. Photo by João Couto (Press Office)
Furthermore, in collaboration with Fondazione Circolo dei conti and Turin International Book Fair, it will be possible to attend the meeting with the English writer Jonathan Coe who tells the public about his double passion for literature and music interviewed by the Turin writer Giuseppe Culicchia.
On Sunday 12 June the appointments and concerts dedicated to Mingus continueat the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, Jonathan Coe, in a musician and composer version, guest on keyboards, of the Artchipel Orchestra, conducted by Ferdinando Faraò, while among the concerts in the clubs, that of Tad Robinson, one of the leading exponents of contemporary soul blues.
Wednesday 15th June one of the most anticipated events of the Turin Jazz Festival 2022 is scheduled for the OGR, the first European date of Milton Nascimento’s One Final Music Session tour, an absolute hero of Brazilian music, a singer-songwriter celebrated throughout the world for the expressive power with which he has renewed the rich repertoire of his country. A great party, for his farewell to the stages, which brings together a group of close-knit musicians, once again tightened around his undisputed talent.
Then at the OGR, Buster Williams, one of the masters of contemporary double bass.
Saturday 18 June, at the OGR, first on stage Trixie Whitleya talented young singer, drummer, bassist, keyboardist and author, former front-woman of the cult group Black Dub by Daniel Lanois and daughter of songwriter Chris Whitley. For his Italian premiere he brings his songwriting tinged with a thousand influences to Turin, between electronic blues, rock and jazz. And then, always at the OGR, an unmissable event, Kae Tempest, performer, rapper, writer, Recognized voice of youth anxieties, he has won numerous awards for his poetic, narrative and musical works (Silver Lion in 2021 at the Venice Theater Biennale).
June 18 Kae Tempest (credit Wolfgang Tillmans)
On Sunday 19 June the Torino Jazz Festival closes the 2022 edition with another national premiere, Jimi Tenor and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra. Jimi Tenor is an eclectic talent. The Finnish composer and multi-instrumentalist plays saxophones, flutes, keyboards, instruments of his own invention and is at the same time a photographer, director, fashion designer. Tenor constantly updates the ingredients by mixing early techno jazz with electronics from the pop nuances of later records, up to afrobeat.
The locations
The concerts will take place at Officine Grandi Riparazioni, at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, at the Auditorium of the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper, at the Vittoria Theater at the Waldensian Temple and in the jazz clubs. A trademark of these latest editions by Diego Borotti and Giorgio Li Calzi, will continue to be the popular prices of the most anticipated concerts, maximum 15 euros, with the possibility of subscriptions.
For all the details: http://www.torinojazzfestival.it/
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