September 8
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Gianicolo

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 - piano
Luca Giachi - bass
Simone Brilli - drums

The Quiet Quartet was born in 2018 in Florence from the meeting of Giulia Bartolini, singer and composer, with pianist Alessio Falcone, bassist Luca Giachi and drummer Simone Brilli. The repertoire of the group is composed entirely of original pieces written in Italian, born from the union between modern jazz and songwriting music. Each song is formed with extreme attention to detail, to the nuances of the sound and to the suggestion of the words. Musicians bring their own imprint and individuality in the search for an intimate and collective sound, but also playful and carefree. The songs can also be simple or more complex syllable games; the rhythm is varied, between ballads and fast songs, the imagination always different, full of continuous sound movements.

September 14
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Gianicolo

Raindog

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

Christel Balzano's solo project was born in Switzerland, evolving and transforming itself 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 growth path.

September 15
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Gianicolo

Finals of the "Giorgia Mileto" Scholarship
Pop / Rock Department

Final evening 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 piano
Roberto Sanguigni on bass
Bernardino Ponzani on drums

Press Office since 2002, Giorgia Mileto has dealt with dedication and passion to the organization of teaching, musical events and all the activities of the Saint Louis, deeply involved in the growth not only of the AFAM Institute, but also of the many students who in the they have attended it for years, accompanying them from their first steps on stage and supporting them in their professional growth.
For this reason, 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 itself who doubled the amount to expand the opportunity to a greater number of deserving students.

September 19
Monk Club

“BE CAREFUL” SACCHINI

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

"Stay calm": from dialogue with yourself to the lecture of the columnist; from stagnant moralism to forced serenity, passing through games of fantasy and bitter resignation, all expressed musically with a language that is sometimes songwriting and light-hearted, sometimes 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 the first album by the Roman singer-songwriter Sacchini.

September 20th,
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

Evening dedicated to Maestro Amedeo Tommasi, jazz pianist who played with Chet Baker, composer of soundtracks for the films of Pupi Avati, who died last April 13, 2021, at the age of 85. Refined pianist and composer, author of many pieces of the soundtrack of "The legend of the pianist on the ocean", composed together with Ennio Morricone, was a milestone of The Saint Louis that he attended from the early years, when he was a jazz club, and then became a Master loved and appreciated by the many students who over the generations have had the good fortune to play with him.

The B.I.M. Orchestra will perform the pieces of "Amedeo Tommasi – Orchestration and direction Stefano Mastruzzi" (Jazz Collection, 2021), a collection of songs composed by Maestro Amedeo Tommasi, orchestrated and directed by Maestro Stefano Mastruzzi, director of Saint Louis, the historic music school of Rome – among the first jazz clubs in the capital in the 70s and now prestigious AFAM Institute – which tells how the project was born, conceived in 2018 and completed just a few days before the death of Maestro 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, 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 daring re-harmonizations, sometimes even of uncertainties, so inspired as to be transformed into certainties.
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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.

21 September
Casa del Jazz

Massimiliano Biondi Trio Ft. Francesco Bearzatti & Check Mates

Check Mates

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

From the feeling 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 offers a repertoire of original music where timbre research, harmonic modernity, groove and melodic simplicity are the protagonists. Born in 2016, within the Saint Louis College of Music, the trio has made itself known over the last few years on the Italian jazz scene, participating in numerous Jazz Festivals such as "Eddie Lang jazz festival", "Festival Village Celimontana", "Jazz Terrasa Festival, Barcelona ”and others. After the forced break period dictated by the lockdown, the trio is ready to return to the stage presenting new compositions written for the occasion and accompanied by a special guest: Francesco Bearzatti on 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).

September 22
Casa del Jazz

Final for the “Giorgia Mileto” Scholarship - Department of Jazz

Final evening that will decree the winners of the "Giorgia Mileto" Scholarship for the Jazz 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 1st and 2nd level academic courses of the Jazz Department of the Saint Louis College of Music.

Candidates will be accompanied on stage by an exceptional trio:

Pietro Lussu on piano
Luca Bulgarelli on bass
Marco Valeri on drums

Press Office since 2002, Giorgia Mileto has dealt with dedication and passion to the organization of teaching, musical events and all the activities of the Saint Louis, deeply involved in the growth not only of the AFAM Institute, but also of the many students who in the they have attended it for years, accompanying them from their first steps on stage and supporting them in their professional growth.
For this reason, 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 itself who doubled the amount to expand the opportunity to a greater number of deserving students.

September 23
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 will be shared with the talented young musicians of Saint Louis.

September 27
Alcazar Summer - Terrace of the Gianicolo

LUKASZ WOLSKI & 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 on 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
Francesca Carbonelli - voice
Francesco Sacchini - vocals
Simon Cogels – piano
Fabio Massimo Barelli - bass

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 two years, is the master, presenting a varied repertoire revisited of famous songs from international pop, harmoniously accompanied by the voices of Francesca Carbonelli and Francesco Sacchini, driven by the refined rhythm of the Belgian pianist Simon Cogels and Fabiomassimo Barelli on bass.