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Elia Grassi trio \u2013 A Homage to Bill Evans | Volvo Studio Milano, May 26th, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

18.09.2021, by Martina Iacoangeli<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jazz and new generations, new generations and jazz: two universes that often look so distant, but that come into contact more often than we might think.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jazz, after all, is a peculiar genre: drawing life from the heritage of its past great masters, of course, but at the same time constantly reinventing itself and, in this day and age, offering a veritable manifesto about the meaning of the word \u201cchange\u201d. Jazz, like a sponge, absorbs everything around it: history, landscapes, the evolution of humanity and social needs. Within this constant change it must make no excuses, but always look towards the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


All this is well known to Maestro Enrico Intra, an old friend of Ponderosa\u2019s, and not only because, if jazz looks the way it does today, it is partly due to his artistic personality. The Maestro\u2019s keen musical sensibility has led him, over the years, to develop a deep sense of duty towards the new generations of jazz musicians. Intra directs Milan\u2019s Civici Corsi di Jazz at the Civica Claudio Abbado music school, an example of Italian excellence. And his way of (literally) pushing the future protagonists of jazz to the fore could not stop at \u201ctechnical\u201d teachings (if any of you have ever had the pleasure of meeting him, you can easily understand how the word \u201cstop\u201d is not part of the well-known pianist\u2019s vocabulary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Twenty-six years ago, Intra created \u201cBreak in jazz\u201d, a means to (really) highlight the best current and former students of his music courses in order to facilitate their full entrance into the world of professional music. A job, that of musicians, that too often is regarded as \u201csecond-rate\u201d. Intra draws agreements with partners and institutions, organizes shows and concerts, engages young musicians to play at his concerts, stimulates them and takes them out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alessio Dal Checco quartet \u2013 A Homage to John Coltrane | Volvo Studio Milano, May 12th, 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Break in Jazz joins together education and production. It is an important passage for young musicians who will soon perform on \u201creal\u201d stages, and it represents a clear break with the old-fashioned idea that jazz is a music played by old people and directed at old audiences. Jazz can be experimental and avant-garde, reflect on important issues, symbolize rebirth and courage, never forgetting its fundamental links to the past but always keeping the future in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this perspective Intra sought a collaboration with Ponderosa, and Ponderosa respond enthusiastically with JAZZMI, the upcoming Milan jazz festival (running October 21st \u2013 31st, 2021) which, to warm up its audiences for ten days of great shows by famous artists, young jazz bands, labs, debates, art and much more, will join Civici Corsi di Jazz in presenting 22 clips devoted to the future of jazz. Each contains a \u201cmini-performance\u201d by some of the school\u2019s students, as well as an interview with their teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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