“Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it’s been expanding since its creation, and it’s connected to everything.” Jon Batiste
Celebrate Jazz with us with:
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Jazz Gallery with the History of Jazz and the Portraits of the Freedom 250 American Heroes of Jazz.
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12/05 | 10:00 at American Corner Trieste
Jazz on a Summer’s Day – Film. Performances of Jazz GOATS at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
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19/05 | 20:30 at Hamericas – Viale XX settembre 39/A
The GABRIELLE STRAVELLI QUARTET, fresh from Birdland in New York and on the way to the Royal Albert Hall in London. The jazz sounds of the American Song Book alla Ella Fitzgerald. Make your reservation directly at Hamericas. The show starts at 20:30. Come early and eat.
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26/05 | 10:00 at American Corner Trieste
The Ladies Sing the Blues – Compilation of full performances of Female Jazz GOATS.
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THE GROWTH OF JAZZ
Jazz developed in the United States in the very early part of the 20th century. New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, played a key role in this development. The city’s population was more diverse than anywhere else in the South, and people of African, French, Caribbean, Italian, German, Mexican, and American Indian, as well as English, descent interacted with one another. African-American musical traditions mixed with others and gradually jazz emerged from a blend of ragtime, marches, blues, and other kinds of music. At first jazz was mostly for dancing. (In later years, people would sit and listen to it.) After the first recordings of jazz were made in 1917, the music spread widely and developed rapidly. The evolution of jazz was led by a series of brilliant musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington (listen to Ellington in Duke’s Music Class), Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Jazz developed a series of different styles including traditional jazz, swing (listen, for example, to Benny Carter, who got his start in swing music, in Benny’s Music Class) bebop, cool jazz, and jazz?rock, among others. At the same time, jazz spread from the United States to many parts of the world, and today jazz musicians–and jazz festivals–can be found in dozens of nations. Jazz is one of the United States’s greatest exports to the world.