Young Shouts
Silvia Bolognesi Italian Trio with Nick Mazzarella
Live concerts
September 21-24, 2023
The compositions, as well as frequent moments of collective improvisation, exhibit the defining characteristics of a classic modern jazz quartet. The quartet’s first recording, “aLive Shouts” (Fonterossa, 2019), contains the “Suite for Bessie Jones”, inspired by the lyrics of some songs made famous by the singer and recorded by Alan Lomax. A second record followed in 2021: “A Frame in the Crowd” (Fonterossa, 2021). It is composed of all original compositions written and recorded during the pandemic – dedicated to a “missing” audience. The group will also present the Suite “Storia di un femminiello” (Fonterossa, 2023) written by “Il Pavone”.
The “Femminiello” is a typical figure of traditional Neapolitan popular culture, used to refer to a male with markedly feminine attitudes and expressiveness, often related to a transgender person or hermaphrodite. A figure that is part of the society in the neighborhoods of the historic center of Naples: a respected person, generally considered a person who brings good luck. For this reason it has become custom to take a picture of a new born baby in the arms of the femminiello. This character has existed for a long time in the Campanian tradition, within which manages to enjoy a relatively privileged position thanks to the participation in some folkloristic events (sometimes even of a religious nature).
Thursday, September 21 at 7:00pm CT
Artitlab
111 S Livingston St, Madison WI
Saturday, September 23 at 2:45pm CT
Smart Museum
5550 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago IL
This performance is free as part of Hyde Park Jazz Festival
Sunday, September 24 at 7:00pm CT
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust St, Milwaukee WI
Silvia Bolognesi is a double bass player, composer and arranger. She graduated in double bass from the R. Franci Institute of Siena with Maestro Andrea Granai, perfecting with Maestro Alberto Bocini. She approached jazz studying at the Siena Jazz Academy with Paolino Dalla Porta, Furio Di Castri and Ferruccio Spinetti. The most significant encounters in his musical training are those with William Parker, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lawrence Douglas “Butch” Morris, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton. She won the “Top Jazz 2010”, a critics award conferred by “Musica Jazz” magazine, which proclaimed her as the best new talent of italian jazz and she also achieved the “InSound” trophy for double bass category in the same year. She leads several bands: Open Combo, Almond Tree, Xilo Ensemble, Ju-Ju Sounds, Fonterossa Open Orchestra, Young Shouts, Beast Friends trio. Among her most important american collaborations: the international string trio “Hear in Now” with Tomeka Reid and Mazz Swift (with which they completed “Roscoe Mitchell’s sextet” in his homage to John Coltrane in 2017) and the “Art Ensemble of Chicago 50th Anniversary” since 2017, a project that produced the CD “We are on the Edge” and the recent live album “The Sixth Decade: from Paris to Paris”, released for “Rogue Art”. In 2022, “Hear in Now” joins the Hyde Park Jazz Festival (Chicago) to produce a new project, featuring “Qwanqwa”, an Ethio-jazz ensemble, and the special guests Eddie Kwon and Chad Taylor. She’s a member of “Roscoe Mitchell Quintet” since 2022. In 2010 she founded her own label “Fonterossa Records”, hence the minifestival “Fonterossa Day” (since 2015) hosted by PisaJazz, of which she is artistic director. She’s the curator and conductor of “Fonterossa Open Orchestra”, a creative orchestra based in Pisa since 2017, and she runs workshops on Improvisation and Conduction practice since 2008, collaborating with PisaJazz. She teaches double bass and combo class at the Siena Jazz Academy and she’s jazz double bass teacher at the State Conservatory of Palermo. Since 2016 she is part of the “European exchange – Erasmus+” program for the Conservatories of Maastricht (Holland), Tbilisi (Georgia), Riga (Latvia), Birmingham (UK). www.silviabolognesimusic.com
Il Pavone was born in Scafati, a small town near Naples, on June 28, 1996. He began studying trumpet at the Salerno Conservatory at the age of 14, graduating in 2015. Two years later he began his studies at Siena Jazz and graduated in 2022. Since 2018 he has been a member of the “Young Shouts”, led by Silvia Bolognesi and winner in 2020 of the “New Generation Jazz” award established by “I-Jazz” and with two active records. The first of these (“aLive Shouts”, 2019) was recognized by “Bandcamp” as one of the best jazz recordings in August 2019. In 2023 he recorded his first solo album “Storia di un femminiello” for Silvia Bolognesi’s “Fonterossa Records”. He has also collaborated with Dave Burrell, Sabir Mateen, Nico Gori, Alessandro Paternesi, Fabrizio Bosso, Piero Frassi. He is currently the trumpeter and singer of other formations such as “Ossa di Cane” and “Alessandro Paternesi & MelodicoBitters”.
Ginger B. was born in Pisa on June 27, 1994. A member of a large family (eleven elements), in his childhood he had no shortage of creative stimuli: he studied piano, guitar, violin, computer music and, of course, drums. Interested in studies of sound manipulation and acoustics, he specialized by attending a course for Sound Technicians, embarking on a career in the Piedmont and Tuscany area. Then he decided to deepen his studies of improvised music, this time acoustic, attending the Jazz Drumming course at Siena Jazz University, graduating with full marks. He is currently finishing his academic course at the Conservatorio B. Marcello in Venice. Among his most influential teachers we find Silvia Bolognesi, Jim Black, Ziv Ravitz, Alessandro Paternesi, Fabrizio Sferra, Joe Sanders, Stefano Battaglia. Since 2018 he has been a member of the “Young Shouts”, led by Silvia Bolognesi and winner in 2020 of the “New Generation Jazz” award established by “I-Jazz” and with two active records. The first of these (“aLive Shouts”, 2019) was recognized by “Bandcamp” as one of the best jazz recordings in August 2019. Other stable ensembles in which we find him on drums and/or electronics are: “Fonterossa Open Orchestra”, “Mr. Noe”, “Glauco LoFi”.
Alto saxophonist and composer Nick Mazzarella’s work has been described as “continuing the approach taken by like-minded trailblazing altoists Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill, Oliver Lake, and Gary Bartz by seeking to embody the history of jazz music while pushing it forward into new realms” (All About Jazz). He has been a consistent presence in Chicago’s music scene since the early 2000s, and has made an aesthetically unique contribution to the city’s rich culture of jazz and improvised music as both a performer and a presenter. His numerous trio projects and eponymous quintet have served as the primary vehicles for his endeavors as an improviser, composer, and bandleader, while as a collaborator and sideman he has performed and recorded with such artists as Joshua Abrams, Geof Bradfield, Hamid Drake, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Dana Hall, Rob Mazurek, Makaya McCraven, Avreeayl Ra, Mike Reed, Tomeka Reid, Clark Sommers, and Ken Vandermark. To date, Mazzarella has appeared on over forty albums, including a dozen as a leader. Recordings of his original music have been released by “Nessa”, “Astral Spirits”, “Clean Feed”, “International Anthem”, and “Out of Your Head”, and he has performed throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in Africa and the Middle East.