“Jazz for me is just noise. An insolent noise.”
Herbert Greenleaf
Herbert Greenleaf is an American tycoon, owner of a yacht building firm, with an highly significant name. For him jazz is just noise, but for his son Dickie it's a lifestyle, and his life will be brutally ended by the talents of Tom Ripley. Written by Patricia Highsmith in the Fifties, "The Talent of Mr. Ripley" has been adapted for the screen by Anthony Minghella who added the jazz theme, casting the music in an unusual and unsettling light, as the art of improvisation and impersonation, and as counterpart to so-called classical music. "An Insolent Noise" Festival, which will take place in Pisa from November 29th to December 2nd, 2007, will try to verify if jazz still has the spirit of eversion that made it so popular or if it has been neutered by the nostalgia business, cooped by the establishment: improvisors from the first generation of noisemakers – a word that brings to mind the “intonarumori” created by Futurists – will meet the last generation of adventurous musicians, grown in the age of digital music.
During the festival and in the preceding week a rich program of events – lectures, film showings, and meetings with musicians and authors – will allow the audience to hopefully grow more familiar with the cultural background and connections of this music, locating it at the crossroads of many different stories, dealing not only with the music.
The Festival is organized by the local Association Pisa Musica 2000 together with the New Grass Association and is supported by the Town and Province of Pisa as well as by the University of Pisa and the Authority operating students' services. We will “wait” for the festival with a series of lectures in the Town Library about jazz after 1959, while a special lecture about jazz and artistic avant-garde in Europe and a special event of musical and visual improvisation by Maurizio Martusciello (http://www.martux.it/) will take place at the Contemporary Art Center inside the Teseco plant on the outskirts of Pisa.
Artistic Director: Francesco Martinelli (Pisa Musica 2000)
Organizative and Administrative Director: Alessandro Baris (Pisa Musica 2000)
Planning and Promotion of related events: Antonio Pellicori (New Grass)
Press office and Promotion: Promorama www.promorama.it
info@aninsolentnoisefestival.com
INFOLINE: 333-8660842
November 29th - TESECO factory
X-SCAPE(ITA) -
An audio visul project by MARTUX (Maurizio Martusciello) with videoartist Mattia Casalegno.
Martux: “How to paint a sound? How to listen to an image? Giving life and soul to sound/images, trace an escape path from life and its problems, a passage.
A sound, a cry, a blue, make a bodyless universe grow, without a discourse, block of emotions. It does not need a language, an homogenous system, but an nbalanced system; we are not creating a piece of art, we ARE the piece of art. Pure feelings that bring directly to the vital emotions: convulsions, free signals, the arrival of audiovisual bodies that pass through our body, freeing it from its inertia, dematerializating it: the meeting is an event, it's Eros, evil of absence, we are what we miss – it's a way to search for it, but not to own it, just to love it.”
www.martux.it | www.x-scape.it
November 30th - Verdi Theatre
PAOLO SORGE & THE JAZZ WAITERS (ITA-NED) -
GALLO&THE ROOSTERS (ITA-GER) -
Two groups will perform in the evening : guitarist Paolo Sorge with his Jazz Waiters, one of the groups created within the Sicilian Involuntary Improvisor Collective – their site is not to be missed, www.improvvisatoreinvolontario.com. They use short original pieces, treated in a jazz style – jazz is here an open music, highly inclusive, able to metabolize elements that might seem extraneous to the original african-american music. Then Danilo Gallo will take the stage with his Roosters, in this case a group from the North-east of Italy where operates the “El Gallo Rojo” (www.elgallorojorecords.com) collective: an active group of young musicians who initiated concerts, festivals, and a record label. This is what they say: “A surprising alliance between instruments usually confined to the hidden side of the music, a beautiful conspiration against the palace of anemic and educated jazz, born around the low part of the musical pentagram around original compositions by Gallo but also with materials coming from heterologue universes of Eric Satie or Tom Waits.”
www.improvvisatoreinvolontario.com |
www.myspace.com/psorge
elgallorojorecords.com
December 1st - Verdi Theatre
INDIGO TRIO(USA) -
TRAPIST(AUSTRIA-UK) -
After the afternoon encounter with author and philosopher Davide Sparti
about personal and collective identity in musical improvisation, the
extrardinary evening concert will feature the Nichole Mitchell's Indigo
Trio with Harrison Bankhead on bass and Hamid Drake on percussion.
Indigo Trio music reveals to be influenced by ethnic music as Yusef
Latif used to conceive and by the Rahsaan Roland Kirk's playful blues.
Nicole Mitchell, who won the Downbeat 2006 poll as best new flutist, is
AACM co-president and will perform w/Indigo Trio for the very first time
in Italy;an unmissible chance for all jazz fans.
The evening will be closed by another unique concert, a performance of
the Austrian Trapist trio whose Cds have been received enthusisatically
all over the world and who only once performed in Italy before.
Their
music has been described as what Morton Feldman, John Cage and David
Tudor would have created if they founded a rock trio: a luxurious sonic
panorama with powerful grooves and delicate minimal passages.
nicolemitchell.com/indigo-trio
December 2nd - Verdi Theatre
PASQUALE INNARELLA TRIO (ITA) -
SPRING HEEL JACK (UK)
w/JOHN TCHICAI (USA-DEN) -
Beginning in the afternoon with a public interview to saxophonist John Tchicai, another crucial musician since the 60's with his unique position at the confluence between jazz and the European avant-garde. The evening will be opened by Pasquale Innarella with his trio – the saxophonist dedicated a Cd to the “classics of free jazz”, winning well-deserved critical praise. With Roberto Bellatalla on double bass and Michele Rabbia on percussion they will recall the inspirators of the new jazz from the 60's through fresh and passionate performances of pieces like “Odwalla” by the Art Ensemble, “245” by Eric Dolphy, “You’re What This Day Is All About” by Archie Shepp, and Anthony Braxton's “Composition 23E”. Finally, Tchicai will take the stage again as a guest of the Spring Heel Jack collective: a drum'n'bass duo turned producers of a fantastic series of Cds and concerts featuring among others Evan Parker, Leo Smith, Matthew Shipp. SHJ for this occasion will include also Orphy Robinson on vibraphone, John Edwards on bass, Tony Marsh on drums besides founders John Coxon and Ashley Wales, electronics. The unique sound of Tchicai will find a new context in the free-ranging improvisation of the London musicians and the soundscapes created by electronics in this crowning event of an exciting, innovative program.