The Monte di Giove Anxur, one of the most suggestive archaeological sites in Italy, is painted in Jazz with the Anxure in Jazz review.
Artistic direction: Rosario Giuliani
Organization and press office : Saint Louis Management
The Monte di Giove Anxur, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in Italy, is colored with Jazz.
The festival, strongly desired by the Terracina City Council, has for the first time the artistic direction of Rosario Giuliani, who, at such a delicate time, wanted to honor his land by promoting a return to live music, inviting exclusively Italian jazz artists of both national and international fame to the stage.
Anxur in Jazz edition 2021 from August 19 to 21, 3 days of prestigious music, featuring big names in jazz such as Danilo Rea, Fabrizio Bosso, Enrico Pieranunzi, Paolo Damiani, Luca Bulgarelli, Fabio Zeppetella, Fabrizio Sferra, and, of course, Giuliani himself. A rare beauty encounter between land, sea and music.
Anxur in Jazz edition 2021 promoted experimentation at the international level and the best Italian emerging artists, giving space to the most varied musical offerings of multi-diverse sounds. Javier Girotto and Natalio Mangalavite will be the Special Guest of the 2022 edition of Jammin’, three nights of concerts – September 14, 15 and 16 – on the stage of the Auditorium Parco della Musica.
The Concerts
19 AUGUST
GIULIANI / BOSSO “CONNECTION”
Rosario Giuliani – sax, Fabrizio Bosso – trumpet, Alberto Gurrisi – Hammond, Marco Valeri – drums
Two outstanding Italian musicians, Fabrizio Bosso at the trumpet and Rosario Giuliani at the sax, lead the quartet completed by Alberto Gurrisi at the organ and Marco Valeri at the drums, performing in a repertoire of great interest, both of standard and original compositions, with strong rhythmic connotations.
An emotional journey that stems from the human and musical encounter, which has now lasted for more than two decades, of two great Italian jazz performers, masterfully supported by Gurrisi and Valeri, who are also considered to be outstanding in the national jazz scene.
20 AUGUST
ENRICO PIERANUNZI DUO
Enrico Pieranunzi – piano, Luca Bulgarelli – bass
Pianist, composer, arranger, he has recorded more than 70 CDs in his name ranging from piano alone to trio, from duo to quintet and collaborating, in concert or recording studio, with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Paul Motian, Charlie Haden, Chris Potter, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron.
Multiple winner as the best Italian musician in the “Top Jazz,” annually held by the magazine “Musica Jazz” (1989, 2003, 2008) and as the best European musician (Django d’Or, 1997) Pieranunzi has taken his music to stages all over the world performing in the most important international festivals, from Montreal to Copenhagen, from Berlin and Madrid to Tokyo, from Rio de Janeiro to Beijing.Starting in 1982 he has traveled to the United States numerous times giving concerts in various cities including New York, Boston, San Francisco.
He is the only Italian musician ever and one of the very few Europeans to have played and recorded several times in New York’s historic “Village Vanguard” with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian (Camjazz, 2010).It was for “Live at The Village Vanguard” with Marc Johnson and Paul Motian (Camjazz, 2010) that he was awarded in 2014 the Echo Jazz Award – the German equivalent of the U.S. Grammy – as Best International Piano Player. The prestigious American magazine “Down Beat” included his CD “Live in Paris,” in trio with Hein Van de Geyn and André Ceccarelli (Challenge), among the best CDs of the 2000/2010 decade. Top Jazz 2020 as the best musician of the year.
21 AUGUST
REA/DAMIANI “DESIDERI TRADITI”
Danilo Rea – piano, Paolo Damiani – bass
Damiani and Rea have played together for over 30 years in different formations. Damiani’s CD “Al tempo que farà” (2007) winner of 3 referendums as best album of the year sees Rea at the piano.
In this new project the encounter between the two takes place on the level of melody and an artistic collaboration that over time has turned into a deep friendship. The repertoire includes original compositions by the two artists as well as well-known songs from different backgrounds punctually betrayed.
Tradition and betrayal chase each other, betrayal being in this case the highest possible proof of love for a heritage that others preserve with philologically perfect interpretations or slaughter with dubious operations.
Here, on the contrary, the trends refer to paths that refer to an idea of multiplicity as Italo Calvino describes it in his Lezioni Americane: what counts in a story is not its closure in a harmonious figure but the centrifugal force that is released from the story, the plurality of languages as a guarantee of a non-partial truth.
FABIO ZEPPETELLA HANDMADE
Fabio Zeppetella – guitar, Roberto Tarenzi – piano, Jacopo Ferrazza – bass, Fabrizio Sferra – drums
Handmade is an emotion that brings us directly into the soul of the author with 9 tracks (except the 8 of the great John Coltrane) all composed “hand” by Zeppetella whose new project finds him leader of a quartet of international jazz musicians: Roberto Tarenzi at the piano, Jacopo Ferrazza at the bass and Fabrizio Sferra at the drums.
The originality of the sound that emanates from Fabio Zeppetella’s fingers in this latest project seems created by the artist and chiseled in his own image. Endowed with impeccable technique and great musical sensitivity, he uses a unique and personal language, the result of a study always devoted to the search for a style that over the years he has made his own.
He arrived at the elaboration of an entirely original sound by moving from the tradition and music of such masters as Charlie Cristian and Wes Montgomery to the evocation of be-bop and hard-bop of the 1960s. In his phrasing you discover the dominant aspects of a language never obvious, sometimes virtuous sometimes sweet but always essential.
Its dominant characteristics are the sweetness and strength inherent in the original way of interpreting music, in which the desire to seek a virtual link with poetry is evident.
