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Silvia Bolognesi

Born in Siena, Silvia Bolognesi graduates in double-bass at the “R. Franci Institute” with Andrea Granai while attending Alberto Bocini’s double-bass classes at the “G.Verdi Institute” in Prato. Her approach to jazz starts by following lessons at the “Siena Jazz Foundation” with F. Spinetti and by attending summer courses (1998-1999) organized by the same Institute, studying with Furio di Castri, Ettore Fioravanti (ensemble music) and Giancarlo Gazzani (big band). As well she attends the course “High level qualification for Jazz Performers”, founded by the European Union (with Furio di Castri, Mario Raia, Stefano Zenni and Francesco Martinelli) and the “Trio course” directed by Stefano Battaglia, Paolino dalla Porta and Fabrizio Sferra. Furthermore, she participates in the “Musical Research Lab”, directed by Stefano Battaglia.

In 2003 she is selected to form part of Butch Morris Orchestra with which she performs during the 13th Edition of “Roccella Jonica Jazz Festival” and again in 2010, conduction N. 192 “Possible universe”, during the 25th Edition of the “Sant’Anna Arresi Festival”

Since 2007 she gives workshops on “conduction” together with the Open Combo musicians. In 2010 the magazine Music Jazz awards Silvia Bolognesi the “Top Jazz 2010” as new best talent and in the same year she wins the “InSound Prize 2010” in the category “Double-bass”.

In 2011 she spends a period in the U.S. with New York as base, where she plays with the trio “Hear in Now” in local clubs and with the “Nublu Orchestra” conducted by Butch Morris.

In 2012 she returns to the States for a tour with “Hear in Now” in the Midwest. She also plays, this time with Chicago as base, with some musicians of the AACM, and as again goes on a tour with “Hear in Now” in New Orleans. She teaches Double-bass, bass, music theory and harmony at the “Fondazione Siena Jazz” and at the association “Mosaico” in Colle Val d’Elsa. In 2009 she teaches at the summer courses “Marcello Melis”.

She has played with Ernie Adams, Dee Alexander, Lewis Barnes, Gianni Basso, Jean Paul Bourelly, Mwata Bowden, Joe Bowie, Fabrizio Bosso, , Rob Brown, Cristiano Calcagnile, Domenico Caliri, Stefano ”Cocco” Cantini, Roberto Cecchetto, , Francesco Cusa, Vincent Davis, Ernest Dawkins, Miquel De La Cerna, Maria Pia De Vito, Hamid Drake, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Garrison Fewell, Ettore Fioravanti, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Nico Gori, Mauro Grossi, Jason Hwang, Pasquale Innarella, Paul Jeffrey, Stefano Maltese, Sabir Mateen, Laurence Butch Morris, David Murray, Fred Lonberg Holm, Evan Parker, Francesco Petreni, Fabrizio Puglisi, Enrico Rava, Scott Reeves, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Alan Silva, Achille Succi, Marco Tamburini, Chad Taylor, John Tchicai, Pietro Tonolo, Lorenzo Tucci, Ken Vandermark, Ed Wilkinson, Michael Zerang.

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Silvia Bolognesi, Dudu Kouate, Griffin Rodriguez: Timing Birds

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Primo lavoro di un trio dalla strumentazione piuttosto atipica, Timing Birds nasce dall'intesa di lunga data tra il percussionista senegalese, ma residente da anni a Bergamo, Dudu Kouate e la contrabbassista Silvia Bolognesi. I due, dopo varie collaborazioni occasionali, si sono ritrovati assieme nell'Art Ensemble of Chicago, cosa che li ha spinti a cercare l'occasione per realizzare qualcosa assieme. Quando ci sono riusciti è poi stato naturale allargarsi da duo a trio, con l'ingresso di Griffin Alan Rodriguez, compagno di ...

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Jazz & Dance: modi diversi di unire le due arti

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Sebbene gran parte del jazz nasca dalla musica da ballo e nella sua storia non manchino importanti collaborazioni di musicisti con danzatori --il primo che viene in mente è Steve Lacy --, oggi i rapporti tra questa musica e l'arte della danza non sono frequentissimi. Da un po' di tempo, tuttavia, qualcosa dalle nostre parti si sta muovendo: in un'intervista di qualche anno fa Dan Kinzelman ci parlava del suo progetto in duo con il danzatore Daniele Ninarello, ...

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Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

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Having first come to international prominence in Paris at the end of the '60s, it seems fitting for the Rogue Art imprint to celebrate the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's progression into their sixth decade in the same city. This double CD documents the performance of an extended AEC at the Sons d'hiver Festival in February 2019. Only reedman & composer Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye survive from the original quintet but, rather than accept this as a limitation, ...

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Fonterossa Day #7

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Fonterossa Day #7 Teatro Sant'Andrea Pisa 16.4.2023 Settima edizione della rassegna dedicata da Pisa Jazz ai musicisti che ruotano attorno all'etichetta indipendente Fonterossa, creatura di Silvia Bolognesi, come sempre tenutasi nella suggestiva cornice del Teatro Sant'Andrea, chiesetta sconsacrata nel centro della città toscana ai bordi del Lungarno. La lunga kermesse, iniziata alle cinque del pomeriggio e conclusasi a mezzanotte, prevedeva cinque concerti: i primi due presentavano le due più recenti uscite dell'etichetta; ...

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Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

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Recorded live in Paris in February 2020, The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris. presents Art Ensemble Of Chicago—as defiantly daring avant-garde as that first night in Paris, 1969 —giving no quarter whatsoever in their lifelong, diasporic pursuit of creation unbound. Breaking at the pace of a dream, surviving co-founders saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and drummer Famoudou Don Moye return to the moment of conception with a two hour, double disc set The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris, ...

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Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris

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Parigi è città fatale per l'Art Ensemble of Chicago: nel 1969 fu traguardo del prodigio artistico e umano preparato negli anni precedenti da Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors e Joseph Jarman, che avevano incrociato le proprie esperienze dapprima al Wilson Junior College di Chicago, nel 1961, poi nel lavoro con la Experimental Band di Muhal Richard Abrams, che dal '66 vide anche la partecipazione di Lester Bowie. Infine, nella formidabile attività musicale, didattica e sociale dell'Association for the Advancement of Creative ...

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Un ricordo di Roberto Masotti

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Terre incognite—Concerto per Roberto Ravenna Teatro Alighieri 20.11.2022 Di Roberto Masotti, che ho avuto l'opportunità d'incontrare più volte a cominciare dalla fine degli anni Settanta non solo in occasione di festival e concerti, mi rimangono vari ricordi privati, immagini fugaci ma significative. È sulla base di queste tracce, oltre che sulla conoscenza parziale del suo lavoro fotografico, che ho la presunzione di poter abbozzare un suo ritratto, ovviamente del tutto arbitrario e personale, senza ...

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Rudi Records new release: "Hear in Now" by Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid and Silvia Bolognesi

Rudi Records new release: "Hear in Now" by Mazz Swift, Tomeka Reid and Silvia Bolognesi

Source: Massimo Iudicone

Hear in Now (Rudi Records, 2012) Mazz Swift: violin Tomeka Reid: cello Silvia Bolognesi: doublebass “If the same piece of music is played multiple times it will take on a new life at each performance. When improvisation is added the music becomes new music that did not exist before. The music I speak about is the music coming from “HEAR in NOW," the trio consisting of Mazz Swift on violin, Tomeka Reid on cello ...

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