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The Essence of Emily
In the April 1982 issue of People magazine, under the heading “Lookout: A Guide To The Up and Coming,” jazz…
Italian jazz producers Giampiero Rubei and Regione Lazio have announced JazzItaliano in New York, a festival that will feature the most important jazz musicians from Italy performing at various New York City jazz clubs March 1 through 6.
The artists scheduled to perform are: pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, the No. 1 jazz pianist in Italy; saxophonist Rosario Giuliani; trumpeter Flavio Boltro; trombonist Fabrizio Bosso; guitarist Fabrizio Sotti; pianist Riccardo Biseo; and the Fabio Morgera Trio.
Venues will be Birdland, Cornelia Street Café, Jazz Gallery, Smoke, Sweet Rhythm and the Zinc Bar. It is the intention of this festival to create a cultural bridge between Italy and the U.S. by presenting not only these incredible jazz talents to US audiences, but also the long and rich cultural history of the Regione Lazio. Producer Giampiero Rubei puts it this way. “The Italian Jazz Experience is now decidedly ripe and artistically relevant. It has exhibited the surprising capacity to unite in a new and stimulating way the traditions of jazz with the Italian popular and educated cultural roots.” “Today the Italian Jazz scene notwithstanding the dreadful conditions of the national musical market is in an exceptionally blooming phase; that¹s why it is our intention to export it, and make it known in the rest of the world.”
“She said, ‘A lot of people are going to try and stop you,’” Sheryl Bailey recalls of the advice she received from jazz guitarist Emily Remler (1957–’90). “‘They’re going to say you slept with somebody, you’re a dyke, you’re this and that and the other. Don’t listen to them, and just keep playing.’”
Feb 3, 2025 10:49 PM
In the April 1982 issue of People magazine, under the heading “Lookout: A Guide To The Up and Coming,” jazz…
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