April 12, 2009
21.30
Naples Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Pietrasanta
Federico II Concert Jazz Orchestra
In the spring of 2004 on the initiative of dr. Stefano Irace, director of the administration of Frederick II, who has always loved jazz, has prepared the draft of the orchestra. For the role of director of the choice fell on Mario Raja, arrangers of the most famous Italian, Giulio Martino as artistic director. Raja, who lives in Rome but is Neapolitan by birth, married to the project with enthusiasm. In January 2004, there were hearings convened by a notice addressed to all students, teachers and professors can not play an instrument with sufficient expertise. The membership has been remarkable demonstration of waiting for a project already underway in many universities. From these were selected twenty musicians who make up the orchestra. The workforce is to choose a big band jazz (with trumpets, trombones, saxophones, bass and double bass, piano, guitar and drums), to which was added a section of anomalous two flutes, two clarinets and two female voices, the latter used mainly as a function strumentale.Questo to use a greater number of people, but also to obtain an original sound, in the belief that jazz music is a confluence of influences, sounds and atmosphere of the most diverse. Mario Raja has arranged all the pieces specifically for this organism. This makes the Federico II Jazz Orchestra sounds in an absolutely original, due to the style of other bands like that. At the same time in this first phase of the life of the orchestra were chosen a series of pieces by such greats as Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Duke Ellington, however, to establish a link with the tradition of jazz. The Frederick Jazz Orchestra presents a concert of songs well known as Caravan Ellington and Tizol alongside faithful orchestration and almost classic Blue In Green by Bill Evans. Chelsea Bridge, the workhorse of Johnny Hodges Ellington's orchestra, along with some of the most rousing pieces of the great Charles Mingus as a Woman and You Remember Rockefeller at Attica. A charming and unique is then created by some compositions as the great Bill Evans Interplay, Orbit and the amazing Children's Play Song, the great pianist had thought as a study for children and that the orchestra returns to us with a majestic performance and exciting.
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