To inaugurate the first evening of Jammin '2021, Wednesday 8 September, a double concert on the stage of the Janiculum Terrace: protagonists are the Promenade and the Quiet Quartet.

September 8, 9:00 pm @ Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Janiculum

Promenade

Giordana Mori - voice
Giuseppe Scrima - trumpet
Anna Bielli - guitar
Giorgio Belluscio - keyboards
Simone Ndiaye - bass
Tommaso Testa - drums

Promenade is a pop-fusion band from Rome that found its definitive formation in 2021, the year of the recording of their first original music album. The core of the sound starts from the voice of Giordana Mori, of soul and R'n'B matrix, which joins the versatility and influences of the instrumentalists.

Quiet Quartet

Giulia Bartolini - vocals, compositions
Alessio Falcone - pianoforte
Luca Giachi - bass
Simone Brilli - drums

Il Quiet Quartet nasce nel 2018 a Firenze dall’incontro di Giulia Bartolini, cantante e compositrice, col pianista Alessio Falcone, il bassista Luca Giachi e il batterista Simone Brilli. Il repertorio del gruppo è composto interamente da brani originali scritti in italiano, nati dall’unione tra il jazz moderno e la musica cantautorale. Ogni brano è formato con estrema cura al dettaglio, alle sfumature del suono e alla suggestione delle parole. I musicisti apportano la propria impronta e individualità nella ricerca di un suono intimo e collettivo, ma anche giocoso e spensierato. I brani possono essere anche semplici o più complessi giochi di sillabe; il ritmo è vario, tra ballad e brani veloci, l’immaginario sempre diverso, ricco di continui movimenti sonori.

Promenade and Quiet Quartet - Info Concert - 8 September
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Janiculum
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ingresso gratuito
Concert starts at 9.00 pm

On 14 September, for Jammin '2021, Raindog will be on the stage of the Janiculum Terrace.

Raindog

Christel Balzano - voice
Giulio Scipioni - guitar
Pietro Intotaro - keyboards
Simone D'Andrea - bass / Moog
Sergio Tentella - drums

The solo project of Christel Balzano was born in Switzerland, evolving and transforming himself after his move to Rome. The meeting with Giulio Scipioni also takes place in Rome, who assumes an important role within the project as a guitarist and arranger. The sound is characterized by different musical influences, which reflect a long and varied path of growth.

Raindog - Concert Info
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Janiculum
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ingresso gratuito

Concert starts at 9.00 pm

On September 15th, final concert that will decree the winners of the “Giorgia Mileto” Scholarship for the Pop Department of Saint Louis.

The finalist candidates will compete with a live performance for the 3 full scholarships that will allow deserving students to attend the I and II level academic courses of the Pop Department of the Saint Louis College of Music.

Candidates will be accompanied on stage by:

Michele Papadia on the floor
Roberto Sanguigni on bass
Bernardino Ponzani on drums

I 9 finalists for the Pop Rock Department Saint Louis:

Lucrezia Cesaroni
Agustina Fugnes
Vincenzo Lato
Dalila Murano
Giovanni Luca Ottolino
Vittorio Pagano
Diego Stinziani
Santino Stinziani
Camilla Villani

Press Office since 2002, Giorgia Mileto has dealt, with dedication and passion, with the organization of the didactics, musical events and all the activities of Saint Louis College of Music, deeply involved in the growth, not only of the AFAM Institute, but also of the many students who have attended the music school over the years, accompanying them from the first steps on stage and supporting them in their professional growth.
For this reason, the Saint Louis, in agreement with the Mileto family, believes that the best way to remember the dear friend and colleague Giorgia is to reward the talent and dedication to music of young musicians, by promoting the institution of scholarships.
The funds were raised through donations from Giorgia's friends, musicians and family members and from Saint Louis himself who doubled the amount to expand the opportunity to a greater number of deserving students.

Info Concert 15th September
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Janiculum
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ingresso gratuito

On September 19, for Jammin '2021, on the stage of the Monk, release party of "stai Sereno" (Urban 49, 2021), Sacchini's first album.

September 19, 9:00 pm @ Monk

"STAY CALM"

SACCHINI

Francesco Sacchini - voice
Margherita Flore - piano, keyboards
Corrado Filiputti - guitars
Daniele Greco - guitars
Alessio Lima - bass
Davide Savarese - percussion
Claudio Laguardia - drums

"STAY SERENO" is the concept album by the artist Sacchini, which identifies as the main themes the multiple nuances that the expression itself embodies.
Each piece in fact looks at the concept from different perspectives: from the dialogue with oneself to the lecture of the columnist, from stagnant moralism to forced serenity through imaginative games and bitter resignation, all expressed musically with a language sometimes songwriting and light-hearted at times more intimate and sung, letting the two worlds complement each other.

After the release of the singles "Fuori dal Coro", "Anna" and "Terra e Foglia", the three episodes of the "stai Sereno Story", it is now time for the release party of Sacchini's album, published for Saint Louis record label, Urban 49.

Francesco “Sacchini” was born and still lives in Rome, on an axis that starts from Trastevere but does not end in the faint borders between Collatina and Centocelle, leaving space for some alley in Oxford. He approaches singing from an early age. More than by mere chance, however, only in 2011, after the first lesson paid without his knowledge by his aunt Claudia, gently condemning himself to the rest of his artistic career.
After 8 years of study at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, where he graduated in Pop Singing, and live activities, actively participating in numerous unpublished ensembles, in 2019 he began writing and composing together with Margherita Flore and Corrado Filiputti, both producers and arrangers of the project.
One thing is sure: there are no comprehensive languages, no favorite streets, no one-way streets.
Just want to tell each other things.

“STAI SERENO” Sacchini concept album - Concert Info
Monk Club
Via Giuseppe Mirri 35
Admission € 10: reduced for Saint Louis students at € 5

Concert starts at 9.00 pm

On 20 September, for Jammin '2021, on the stage of the Casa del Jazz, an evening dedicated to Maestro Amedeo Tommasi, jazz pianist who played with Chet Baker, composer of soundtracks for the films of Pupi Avati and collaborator of Ennio Morricone for "The legend of the pianist on the ocean".

September 20, 9:00 pm @ Casa del Jazz

"THE LEGEND OF THE JAZZ PIANIST"
Tribute to Amedeo Tommasi

Opening:
Silvia Olivier - solo piano

B.I.M. Orchestra
Orchestrated and conducted by Stefano Mastruzzi,

at the piano
Alessandro Lanzoni
Sade Mangiaracina
Vittorio Solimene

Serata dedicata al M° Amedeo Tommasi, pianista jazz che ha suonato con Chet Baker, compositore di colonne sonore per i film di Pupi Avati, scomparso lo scorso 13 aprile 2021, all’età di 85 anni. Raffinato pianista e compositore, autore di molti brani della colonna sonora de “La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano”, composta insieme a Ennio Morricone, è stato una pietra miliare del Saint Louis che ha frequentato fin dai primi anni, quando era un jazz club, per poi diventarne un Maestro amato e apprezzato dai tanti allievi che nel corso delle generazioni hanno avuto la fortuna di suonare con lui.

La B.I.M. Orchestra eseguirà i brani di “Amedeo Tommasi – Orchestrazione e direzione Stefano Mastruzzi” (Jazz Collection, 2021), una raccolta di brani composti dal M° Amedeo Tommasi, orchestrati e diretti dal M° Stefano Mastruzzi, direttore del Saint Louis, la storica scuola di musica di Roma – tra i primi jazz club della Capitale negli anni’ 70 e ora prestigioso Istituto AFAM – che racconta di come è nato il progetto, concepito nel 2018 e completato proprio pochi giorni prima della scomparsa del M° Tommasi:

“The precious friendship and close collaboration with Amedeo spans about 20 years, unraveling between the frequent mutual attendance at Saint Louis, our impromptu escapes from reality in the trattorias of the Rione Monti, the fleeting listening to music just composed by him or me.
Precisely in one of these meetings, in 2012, on a rickety keyboard, he made me listen to "Camilla", a dreamy composition of his written for the birth of my first daughter, a lullaby that tells of unpredictable futures, inexhaustible potential, of a new free and boundless life; a privilege that I have partly tried to reciprocate with this extraordinary production.

A recording adventure that came to life in 2018, when I conceived for him a completely original production process, without constraints, without scores that limited his expressive freedom, timeless or better, with his instinctive inner time acting as a metronome, the his pulsating arrhythmias and his spontaneous emotions.

Amedeo recorded twenty-two piano solo pieces in the studios of Saint Louis, without reading a single note, an impetuous flow of metric and harmonic modulations, of audacious re-harmonizations, sometimes even of uncertainties, so inspired as to be transformed into certainties.

Months I spent grasping and internalizing his music in order to create an orchestration that would enhance its subtlest nuances, a dialoguing counterpoint, sometimes in contrast, more often an ideal evolution of just hinted at musical thoughts.

Conducting the orchestra in this unusual recording meant chasing and indulging its seductive rubato, its mysterious pauses, sudden accelerating”.

At the piano and at the opening of the concert, young musicians who were lucky enough to study with Amedeo Tommasi and who will pay tribute to their Maestro: Silvia Olivier, Alessandro Lanzoni, Vittorio Solimene, Sade Mangiaracina.

Concert Info
Casa del Jazz
Via Di Porta Ardeatina, 55
Admission € 10: reduced for Saint Louis students at € 5

Concert starts at 9.00 pm

On 21 September, for Jammin '2021, Francesco Bearzatti special guest of the Massimiliano Biondi Trio, on the stage of the Casa del Jazz. At the opening the Check Mates.

September 21, 9:00 pm @ Casa del Jazz

Check Mates

Alessandro Moricca - guitar
Gerardo Del Monte - plan
Giuseppe Di Pasqua - double bass
Alessandro Tomassini - drums

From the understanding of four young musicians from different backgrounds, united by a passion for jazz, the Check Mates project was born, with the aim of creating original fusion music that pays tribute to Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Yellowjackets, Thelonious Monk, Esbjorn Svensson Trio and Ennio Morricone.

Massimiliano Biondi Trio Ft. Francesco Bearzatti

Francesco Bearzatti - sax
&
Massimiliano Biondi - guitar
Alessandro Loggia - bass
Vincenzo Protano - Drums

The Massimiliano Biondi Trio propone un repertorio di musica originale dove la ricerca timbrica, la modernità armonica, il groove e la semplicità melodica sono protagonisti. Nato nel 2016, all’interno del Saint Louis College of Music, il trio si fa conoscere nel corso degli ultimi anni sulla scena jazzistica italiana, partecipando a numerosi Jazz Festival come “Eddie Lang jazz festival”, “Festival Village Celimontana” ,“Jazz Festival Terrasa, Barcellona” e altri ancora. Dopo il periodo di pausa forzata dettato dal lockdown, il trio è pronto a tornare sul palco presentando nuove composizioni scritte per l’occasione e accompagnato da un ospite speciale: Francesco Bearzatti al sax.

Narrator in love with words and capable of prodigious innovations, a foreigner always and everywhere yet deeply Italian, a musician in the eternal search for the other, irresistibly attracted by revolutionary processes as long as they are free and changeable and not rigid, Francesco Bearzatti collaborated with Giovanni Mazzarino, Gianluca Petrella and he is one of the protagonists of Stefano Battaglia's quintet with whom he recorded a tribute disc to Pier Paolo Pasolini (forthcoming for Ecm).

Concert Info
Casa del Jazz
Viale Di Porta Ardeatina 55
Admission € 10: reduced for Saint Louis students at € 5

Concert starts at 9.00 pm

Master Class con Lage Lund

Mercoledì 22 settembre
h 18:00-20:00
Saint Louis
via urbana, 49/a

Acclamato come uno dei migliori guitarists della sua generazione e degli artisti jazz più importanti di oggi, Lage Lund si destreggia con grande autorità tra le sue composizioni originali e i grandi standard della tradizione jazz, con una sbalorditiva raffinatezza armonica e fluidità melodica. Come lo ha definito il New York Times, una presenza davvero “magnetica” sul palco.

Master class a numero chiuso, è obbligatoria la prenotazione scrivendo a francesca@slmc.it

Quote di partecipazione alla Master Class:
€ 30 – solo per allievi Saint Louis ridotto a € 15

Crediti formativi per i corsi accademici: ½ CFA

On 22 September, on the stage of the Casa del Jazz, a concert that will decree the winners of the "Giorgia Mileto" Scholarship for the Jazz Department del Saint Louis.

The finalist candidates will compete with a live performance for the 3 full scholarships that will allow deserving students to attend the I and II level academic courses of the Jazz Department of the Saint Louis College of Music.

Candidates will be accompanied on stage by a exceptional trio:

Pietro Lussu on the floor
Luca Bulgarelli at the bottom
Marco Valeri on drums

I 10 finalists for the Jazz Saint Louis Department:

Federico Balestra
Anna Bielli
Andrea Cardone
Stefano Coco
Silvia olivier
Antonio Ottaviano
Alessandro Recanati
Giuseppe Sacchi
Simone Sansonetti
Ciro Serrapica

Press Office since 2002, Giorgia Mileto has dealt, with dedication and passion, with the organization of the didactics, musical events and all the activities of Saint Louis College of Music, deeply involved in the growth, not only of the AFAM Institute, but also of the many students who have attended the music school over the years, accompanying them from the first steps on stage and supporting them in their professional growth.
For this reason, the Saint Louis, in agreement with the Mileto family, believes that the best way to remember the dear friend and colleague Giorgia is to reward the talent and dedication to music of young musicians, by promoting the institution of scholarships.
The funds were raised through donations from Giorgia's friends, musicians and family members and from Saint Louis himself who doubled the amount to expand the opportunity to a greater number of deserving students.

Concert Info - September 22nd
Casa del Jazz
Via Di Porta Ardeatina 55
Admission € 10; reduced for Saint Louis students at € 5

On 23 September, for Jammin '2021, Lage Lund special guest of Saint Louis D.O.C. on the stage of the Casa del Jazz.

September 23, 9:00 pm @ Casa del Jazz

Saint Louis D.O.C.
&
Special Guest
Lage Lund

Lage Lund - guitar

Xuzhi Chen- sax
Antonio Ottaviano - sax
Emanuele Bono - guitar
Giuseppe Sacchi - guitar
Flavio Vegliante - bass
Lorenzo Lupi - drums

Lage Lund, acclaimed as one of the best guitarists of his generation and the most important jazz artists of today, on stage together with the students of the two-year postgraduate degree of the Saint Louis Jazz Department.
Lund juggles with great authority between his original compositions and the great standards of the jazz tradition, with stunning harmonic refinement and melodic fluidity. As the New York Times defined it, a truly "magnetic" presence on stage, which for the occasion he will share with the talented young musicians of the Saint Louis.

Lage Lund & Saint Louis DOC - Info Concerto
Casa del Jazz
Viale Di Porta Ardeatina 55
Admission € 10: reduced for Saint Louis students at € 5

Concert starts at 9.00 pm

To conclude Jammin '2021, Monday 27 September, a double concert on the stage of the Janiculum Terrace: protagonists Lukasz Wolski and Giuliana Cascone.

Opening

Giuliana Cascone

Giuliana Cascone - voice
Andrea Garozzo - guitar
Andrea Pellegrino - drums
Emanuele Eleuteri - bass

Giuliana Cascone's solo project was born after the first lockdown, a period in which the singer-songwriter begins to experiment the world of writing original songs ranging from Pop to R&B, accompanied by Andrea Pellegrino on drums, Andrea Garozzo on guitar and Emanuele Eleuteri at bass, well-known musicians within the walls of the Saint Louis College of Music. The project presents both original compositions and covers of Italian and international pop songs in all its nuances.

LUKASZ WOLSKI

Lukasz Wolski - voce, loop station
Francesca Carbonelli - voice
Francesco Sacchini - voice
Simon Cogels – piano
Fabio Massimo Barelli - bass

Emanuele Righini drums

A group that crosses borders and bridges interpersonal distances through musical language, in which the voice of the Polish singer Lukasz Wolski, who has lived in Rome for more than two years, is the master, presenting a varied repertoire revisited of famous pop songs , soul and international rock combined with some original songs, composed by Wolski, harmoniously accompanied by the voices of Francesca Carbonelli and Francesco Sacchini, on the thrust of the refined rhythm of the Belgian pianist Simon Cogels, Fabiomassimo Barelli on bass and Emanuele Righini on drums.

Info Concert - September 27th
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Janiculum
Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi
Ingresso gratuito
Concert starts at 9.00 pm