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Arturo O'Farrill Sextet at Dizzy's Club, Coca-Cola in New York: "This Sextet has pep and power, with classical and Latin infusion at every corner..." (Roberta Zlokower)

Interview with Eumir Deodato: "Some of the classical orchestrators that inspired me a lot were Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, Rimsky-Korsakoff and a few others. On the jazz and pop side, Gil Evans, Oliver Nelson, Bob Brookmeyer, Henry Mancini, and many others." (Alessio Berto)

Jazzitalia at IAJE Annual Convention 2008: "Both the upside and downside of the annual IAJE Convention is that there are so many concerts, clinics and masterclasses to attend, people to meet, instruments to try, booths to see and schmoozing to be done..." (Jamie Baum)

Candido Camero: Hands on Fire receives 2008 NEA Jazz Master Award at IAJE Annual Convention 2008."His sound and feel mesmerized the audience, making it clear why he is a Jazz Master". (Jamie Baum)

Bessie Smith's life, the greatest blues singer in the world will never stop singing: "It was her powerful voice that hypnotized the audience, but also her mises contributed to the general effect. They were original, but not very elaborate. She often wore long pearl necklaces, a Spanish shawl and sometimes ostrich features." (Brunella Marinelli)

Clayton Brothers Quintet at Dizzy's Club, Coca-Cola: "Not only did this quintet perform with exceptional quality and versatility, but John and Jeff spoke with warmth and humor to the packed second set audience, relating personal and jazz family anecdotes." (Roberta Zlokower)

The Danilo Rea - Roberto Gatto Trio, featuring Joseph Lepore at Dizzy's Club, Coca-Cola in New York: "...the trio brings a combination of authentic Italian opera arias, fused with jazz, as well as music Americana, like Bacharach and Lennon, and original jazz interpretations of popular Italian songs." (Roberta Zlokower)

Interview With Gendrickson Mena: "...it is possible to work on an evolution of latin jazz, because I believe it should evolve. Why play it as Poncho Sanchez or Mongo Santamaria or Tito Puentes? It should evolve and be renewed, it should be updated by adding all these jungle, acid-jazz and world-music influences; in my opinion it will become more interesting." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Nils Petter Molvaer: "The sound...I think it comes from...trying to search for a voice which I can feel related to and in that there are some sounds that really move me, like the sound of the voice itself, of course, but also North African musical instruments like the Ney flute or the Armenian Duduk and the Indian Flute,, they have this sort of...I don't know, of oxygen in the sound, the breath that it has, that is an inspiration." (Luca Vitali)

Gendrickson Mena & The New Cuban Experience at Blue Note: "...the audience is totally immersed in a warm and embracing atmosphere, loaded with energy and rhythm...the talented group-leader allows us to enjoy the warm voice of his flugelhorn, performing a virtuoso solo..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Kristin Asbjornsen:"...I work a lot with improvisation and that has been the main focus, to developed possibilities in the voice as well" (Luca Vitali)

Interview with Arve Henriksen: "...I've been open wide since I started to play trumpet and being a musician, I've been more interested in working with different types of music, folk music, jazz, contemporary music, rock pop, I really find interesting a lot of different stiles...in every situation I am in, I try to find something to learn from it..." (Luca Vitali)

Interviw with Karrin Allyson: "...I'm sincere in wanting to bring joy and beauty and laughter and thoughtfulness to the listener. It's not about posing. It's about reaching people. And that's what I hope happens...." (Eva Simontacchi)

Karrin Allyson at Blue Note: "...Karrin Allyson proves her versatility and skills by performing songs in different styles with different moods and tempos, performing "vocalese", and adding lyrics on great jazz instrumentals. Her scat-singing is superb and very accurate and conveys joy and playfulness...." (Eva Simontacchi)

New York, January 2007, the 34th IAJE Annual Conference. As always, dozens and dozens of appointments including some more important moments like NEA Jazz Masters. Moreover, this year, Greg Osby interviewed Ornette Coleman for Downbeat (Jamie Baum, Patrizia Scascitelli)

Interview with Mary Setrakian: "...I work on the "need". The need is something you have when you're a little child. A need to be loved, a need to be seen, a need to be heard, a need to be somebody. There are all sorts of different needs, and the actor is to connect to the need sensation and sing and speak through that sensation..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Mary Setrakian & Avant Orchestra, When Broadway Encounters Jazz in Italy: "She has no microphone, but we hear her voice quite well, even though a whole big band is playing. She is singing and walking toward the stage in the isle between the rows of seats of the Teatro delle Erbe to reach the orchestra. She carries such a positive energy with her, and spreads it around to all the people in the audience." (Eva Simontacchi)

5 day course with Mary Setrakian: "...we all had to face the fact of "being naked" in our emotions, and this is something that may make somebody unsure, or raise some defences. But Mary supported each of us in our individual journies." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Judy Collins: "...live music is where people get fed ! Their soul, their hearts get fed, and so for the performer the same thing is true. And if I can sleep that night, I know that I've done what I meant to do..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Jazz Poetry: "In ancient times, music and poetry were linked together, and poets were often accompanied by musicians..." (David Treggiari)

Jimmy Scott at Blue Note, Ray Charles describes Jimmy's singing, "This man is all about feeling. He defined what 'soul' is all about in singing long before anyone was using that word!" (Eva Simontacchi)

Grady Tate & "Latin Flavor" at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola for the Latin in Manhattan Festival (Roberta E. Zlokower)

A profile of the great Nina Simone: "There's no other purpose, so far as I'm concerned, for us except to reflect the times, the situations around us and the things we're able to say through our art, the things that millions of people can't say. I think that's the function of an artist and, of course, those of us who are lucky leave a legacy so that when we're dead, we also live on..." (Brunella Marinelli)

Spoleto Vocal Jazz Workshop with Michele Hendricks: "Michelle really likes singers to work with using their memory and their ears rather than looking at a lead sheet with the chords! She feels that if you look at a lead sheet, you never memorize a piece..." (Chrissie Carpenter Oppedisano)

Interview with Michele Hendricks: "...one of my battles when I teach is that I'm trying to get rid of that bad reputation that singers have. Singers should know a little bit about what they're doing. They should understand the chord progression...they should have the same understanding of what's going on in a song that a musician does..." (Chrissie Carpenter Oppedisano)

At JVC Jazz Festival in New York City, the Celebration of Bucky Pizzarelli's 80th Birthday with friends, relatives and...lot of swing! (John Coltelli)

A great concert at Carnegie Hall in honor of Toots Thielemans with Herbie Hancock, Oscar Castro-Neves, Eliane Elias, Ivan Lins, Joe Lovano, Paquito D'Rivera...(Roberta E. Zlokower)

"Hicks Time", Memorial Celebration for John Hicks a New York, presso la St. Peter Church: "The jazz community will miss John Hicks, the musician, and John Hicks, the man. ..." (Roberta Zlokower)

Giovanni Allevi at Blue Note: "...was once again an engaging and entertaining presence, full of passion and personality. He addresses the audience between his original compositions with endearing humor and genuine warmth." (Roberta Zlokower)

The musicians, venues and atmosphere of this fifth annual Rochester International Jazz Festival have once again made it a resounding success. 170 concerts performed by more than 600 musicians, thousands of people, as Mr. Nugent says: "I believe that in the future we're going to have an event here that is one of the best in the world!"(John Coltelli)

Tuck and Patti at Blue Note in Milan: "...Not only can Tuck and Patti reach into your heart and move you to tears; they are also capable of making you smile and have fun." (Eva Simontacchi)

Israel "Cachao" Lopez with his Latin Band at Blue Note: "This was the summer's greatest dance event, but no dance floor was in sight! Yet, hearts and souls danced a raging mambo with this magnificent, Cuban bassist and his 10-piece Latin band..." (Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower)

Interview with Kelli Sae: "I just want people to walk away with the feeling that's very real and that they can connect with. I don't put on a fake air or vibe. I want them to leave feeling good." (Eva Simontacchi)

Pablo Ziegler Quartet at Jazz Standard with Guest, Harry Allen for Tango Meets Jazz series. (Roberta Zlokower)

Valaida Snow, the art instinct, the music instinct: "...She was hitting those high C's just like Louis Armstrong. She would have been a great trumpet player if she had dropped the singing (and by implication the dancing) and concentrated on the trumpet..." (Brunella Marinelli)

Every Tuesday night, at Iridium Jazz Club in New York, the Mingus Big Band, managed by Sue Mingus, performes the music of the Great Charles including some special guests as, in this case, hase been for Randy Brecker...(Roberta Zlokower)

Spirit of Django Reinhardt 2005: "...a sold-out Hall was royally entertained in a well-organized and electrically charged fusion of German, French, American, Rumanian, Cuban, and other musicians, all of whom have passion for the Django genre..." (Roberta E. Zlokower)

Interview with David Thomas, Take 6: "...when we're listening to any style of music, when you can feel someone's emotion, and they're really into it, then that makes it even more interesting..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Jon Hendricks at New York's Blue Note: "...watching artists like Jon Hendricks, I realized the music does keep us alive, and as long as we continue to embrace it and participate, we will not go down easily or quickly..." (Rodney A. Suarez)

Interview with Jay Clayton: "I saw Coltrane at a tiny bar in Cincinnati. The way he connected every note amazed me. And what Miles was doing was singing through the horn. It was the horn players who got inside my soul...You learn this music by osmosis. And the people who are less experienced learn from the people who are more experienced. And we all have somebody more experienced in our lives to learn from..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Francis Dreyfus, founder of the well-known and well-respected Dreyfus Jazz label, one of those labels you pay special attention to...(Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Marcus Miller: "...I like to listen to a wide variety of things and maybe take from here, take from there, take a little of everything and see if I can influence it with jazz..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview with Andy Davies: "...I hope we can say something for European Jazz...I love American jazz but I do not think European Jazz gets enough credit..." (Marco Losavio)

Interview with Alex Milella: "...it's very hard today, in a world that is full of inputs that are all but artistic and based only on the way you look, for a boy to be involved with music in such a deep way as it happened to me...." (Alceste Ayroldi)

Interview with Scott Henderson: "...When I was little I listened to Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple on the radio… Jimmy Page, Richie Blackmore… then later I listened to Hendrix and Jeff Beck, so those four guys are probably my ‘teachers'..." (Alex Milella)

Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and the split brain: "...About Powell and Monk it has always been pointed out their genius and innovation in the history of jazz. Unfortunately mental illness has been a disturbing element for both these extraordinary artists..." (Brunella Marinelli)

Giacomo Gates at Dizzy's Club in New York: "...Scat has never sounded so good. With Earl May on mellow bass and Tony Lombardozzi on creative guitar, Giacomo Gates lit up Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola..." (Roberta E. Zlokower)

Giovanni Allevi at the Blue Note in New York: "...Allevi performed a rippling series of compositions with some mystical, as well as classical qualities. The first exuded passion, while the second, more lyrical, had skipping rhythms and a modern dance motif..." (Roberta E. Zlokower)

Interview and Review on the concert of the great Kurt Elling at the Blue Note "...Kurt Elling is immensely versatile, and keeps changing from one moment to the next – he can charm you with a traditional ballad that may remind you of great Frank Sinatra, and the next moment be scat-singing and commanding his voice as an instrument – acting while singing..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Andy Davies at Uèffilo in Gioia del Colle: "...The band is the perfect synthesis of European unity in that all the musicians come from different regions of Europe, although joined by the same musical matrix..." (Alceste Ayroldi)

Interview to Attila Zoller. It's the last Attila interview, he was aware about his health state, he was constrained to assume morfine, but he was available to tell his story, to transmit his love for music. (Bill Donaldson)

Jane Monheit at the Blue Note: "...It is outright clear that she is very gifted and talented. Her pitch is perfect, she's very precise, and she uses dynamics knowingly in order to convey her most intimate feelings, apart from having a wonderful swing..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Interview to Jane Monheit: "...My total dream is to be able to keep doing this, tour all over and make records and everything but be able to have kids and have a family at the same time..." (Eva Simontacchi)

Dave Liebman - Bologna - Cantina Bentivoglio - 6 maggio 2008 (Sergio Cimmino)

Nicole Mitchell Indigo Trio - Crossroads 2008 (Sergio Cimmino)

Hamid Drake - Crossroads 2008 (Sergio Cimmino)

Nils Petter Molvær - Pomigliano Jazz 2007 (Giuseppe Arcamone)

Maria Pia De Vito - Pomigliano Jazz 2007 (Giuseppe Arcamone)

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Pocket Music
Niels Ryde Quartet feat. Lew Soloff
NCB Music Mecca 2007

Pure Ecstasy
Eva Simontacchi
Splasc(h) 2007

The my fourteen songs
Claudio Scolari
Principal Records 2005

A Saturday Night on the Moon
Project Delos
Splasc(h) 2005

Oi Dialogoi
Roberto Favilla jr
Splasc(h) 2006

Hikmet
LTC (Lussu - Tucci - Ciancaglini)
Via Veneto Jazz 2005

A Night in Vienna
Nuevo Tango Ensamble
Philology 2005

Colemania
Antonio Barbagallo
Ollio Records 2005

I Nuvoli: Jazz Manouche
Jacopo Martini
Felmay 2005

Juley
Davide Facchini
2005

Neapolis
Luca Luciano
Redkite Records 2005

Feliec
Danilo Memoli
Azzurra Music 2005

Call My Name
Joe Bataan
Vampisoul 2005

Una storia nel Jazz - Nick La Rocca
Claudio Lo Cascio
Edizioni Novecento 2004

Air, Love & Vitamins
Muthspiel, Johnson, Blade
Quinton 2004

New York Connection
Pablo Bobrowicky
Red Records 2005

Fiesta de Agosto
Edward Simon & David Binney
Red Records 2004

Light Shades
Alex Milella
Nicolosi production 2004

Trane's Groove
Carla Marciano
Black Saint - Dischi della Quercia 2002

Live @ Birdland
Tamm E Hunt
2003

Organ Grooves
Vito Di Modugno
Red Records 2003

Water Street Revival
Andrew Cheshire
Joule 2000

Passione & Musica
Enrico Rosa
DORECD 2002

Another View
Andrew Chesire
Ellsworth Music - BMI 1997

We'll Be Together Again
Giuseppe Bassi
YVP 2002

Jazz
Danilo Memoli
www.ChetBaker.com 1999

Milan In Minor
Lorenzo Petrocca Organ Trio
Jardis 2001

Double Face
Mauro De Federicis
Wide Sound 2000

Quartetto
Antonio Zambrini
Abeat For Jazz 2001

Ortodoxa
Salvatore Bonafede
Red Records 2001

Argenti
Ferdinando Argenti
FERDI'S MOOD 2001

Passione
Luca Luciano
M.A.P. 2001

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