JAZZ AND LANGUAGES
A series of initiatives including an exhibition of images linked to the world of jazz, an inaugural concert that explores the roots of African American music and an evening devoted to poetry jazz in a blend of words and music.
Jazz and languages therefore wish to approach this genre in a multimedia exploring various means of expression across the barriers between academic and popular culture, between “genders” and above all trying to do culture and why not, to teach engaged, involving enjoying the public . The jazz in this sense is an ideal vehicle because traditionally requires a direct link between musicians and listeners.
Jazz and languages was presented for the first time in May 1999 under an initiative organized by the Councillorship youth - Youth - Archive Young Artists against the use of drugs and alcohol on the premises and discos. The program includes:
See “The atmosphere of jazz.” Photos by Diego Landi and Andrea Alessio that evoke the atmosphere and situations and places where jazz was born. (See photo)
Inaugural Concert “from New Orleans to Harlem” (the roots of music afroamericana)
New York and especially the district of Harlem represent an important stage in evolution and spread of jazz.
The show explores some aspects of music afroamericana starting from New Orleans where the blues, spirituals and ragtime were mixed to continue the journey to the Big Apple where with “jazz age” in places like the Cotton Club and the Savoy Ballroom music Black began to assert itself in all social spheres of the United States and then in the rest of the world.