The House of Jazz presents Jazz Colours - The music that revolves around you 12 games on jazz and its influences
10th meeting Jazz and Cinema Monday, December 7
Auditorium of the Casa del Jazz Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55-00153 Rome
19.00 pm Free entrance
Info line: Tel 2006 704 731 (Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 18.00)
leads Alfredo Saitto multimedia Directed by Vittorio Malpassuto
With Riccardo Fassi Trio Riccardo Fassi (piano) - Steve Cantarano (bass) - Mark Valeri (drums)
SUZANNE MARINELLI DUO Boots and EMILIO Susanna Boots (voice) - Emily Marinelli (piano)
The cinema has often used the jazz and its leading figures for their own purposes. Just think of the film's debut sound film "The Jazz Singer" (1927), but with jazz had little to do. For almost 30 years, except for some short films like "Black and Tan Fantasy" (1929) by Dudley Murphy, "Symphony in Black" (1935) by Fred Waller and "Jammin 'the Blues" (1944) by Gjon Mili, have views fictionalized biographies of jazz musicians such as: "Five Pennies" (on Red Nichols), "The Benny Goodman Story, The Glenn Miller Story ", etc.. Or film with the participation of musicians in various ways individuals, groups or bands such as" Cabin in the Sky, New Orleans "(in Italian" City of Jazz ")," Stormy Weather "" A Song is Born "(in Italian" Venus and the Professor "), etc.., or with film soundtracks, written by jazz musicians such as:" anathomy of a Murder "(" Anatomy of a Murder "), written by Duke Ellington, "The Man with the Golden Arm" ("The Man with the Golden Arm"), written by Elmer Bernstein, or "Ascenseur pour l'Éschafaud" ("Elevator to the Gallows") written by Miles Davis, etc., only to remember the most famous. 5th year ago, finally, in the summer of 1958, U.S. Bern Stein released a documentary film Jazz on a "Summer's Day" at the Newport Jazz Festival that year, the event jazz par excellence. The film offers us portraits of the best sound of jazz, blues and gospel of the time (Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonouis Monk, Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Anita O'Day, Dinah Washington, Mahalia Jackson, and many others ). And then there's the recent history of children with major themes of jazz and products made with intense love.
A Unlike what happens very often in pop, jazz is not running on the composition and the thing is easily explained: there are many who presume to have the inspiration to write a song, a form of expression that always must be considered popular, and to compose a jazz piece is a technical undoubtedly higher. Happens that sometimes a great song is able to overcome the boundaries of its traditional use, to become an evergreen (defying the passage of time) and, in very special cases, in jazz standards (or better: new stand) benefiting oestrus of expressive talent and genius of musicians who prefer to operate on what is billed as beautiful, instead of risking their creativity in original songs at the risk of outcomes are expected. Jazz and pop is often marry, crossing each other are colored, and often with fantastic results and unexpected. Almost always, the jazz musicians who decide to steal a pop song, the first thing they do is to sacrifice the text. Do not go, however, forgotten pop songs that are born with a predisposition jazzy falling into a sphere more sophisticated, highly appreciated by the public's palate up.