The 46th edition of the Roma jazz festival offers all-embracing experiences through music, video and virtual reality
The Roma Jazz Festival returns to animate the capital from November 6 to 19 with 26 concerts between the Auditorium Parco della Musica ‘Ennio Morricone’, Casa del Jazz, the Monk club and Teatro del Lido in Ostia.
Forget traditional concerts and indulge in totalizing experiences in which to make new connections, expand knowledge, visit synthetic worlds and imagine new ones, but also, most importantly, have fun. High-tech interactive and immersive performances, cosmonauts floating in space and colours generated from sounds thanks to Artificial Intelligence. Psychedelic appointments and Grimm Brothers fairy tales tweaked by the audience, the music, video art and virtual reality and improvisation.
The title of this edition is “Immersivity,” to indicate a multisensory, playful and immersive approach that looks to the future without forgetting the roots of a language at once vernacular, sophisticated and immediate, able to speak to different audiences in concert halls, jazz clubs, dancefloors and large multimedia festivals.
The extraordinary programme of the Roma Jazz Festival 2022 continues the incessant research on the transformations of the national and international jazz scene, on its contaminations with other forms of expression and with technological innovation, to foreground the absolute trasversality, dynamism and contemporaneity of jazz.
This year’s festival hosts giants such as Steve Coleman, Spyro Gyra and the world-famous Mingus Big Band alongside key figures of the new British scene like Alfa Mist or pure beginners like the Jemma collective, winners of the LazioSound Scouting 2022 programme.
Extraordinary female artists such as Lady Blackbird, Nuby Garcia, Rosa Brunello and Ramona Horvath. Innovative artists, such as Enrico Rava – at the festival with Austrian experimental guitarist Christian Fennesz and Indian percussionist Talvin Singh – and Danilo Rea, scheduled to perform with the chromesthetic project Soundmorphosis. The sophisticated software of pianist Ralf Schmid and the multimedia performances of the XY Quartet, the ecological visions of Kekko Fornarelli and the very young Jazz Campus Orchestra with the performance Let’s Save The Planet, and the visionary power of video artists such as Paolo Scoppola and Claudio Sichel. The care for tradition of Azerbaijani pianist Isfar Sarabski and the avant-garde of Erik Fredlander, in the company of Uri Caine, or the Itaca 4et ensemble, but also the electro-acoustic rhythms of Kodex. And then the original productions of the New Talent Jazz Orchestra with a great homage to Charles Mingus and of Fabrizio Consoli and Fausto Beccalossi. celebrating Pasolini and encounter between jazz and theatre. Also, two appointments dedicated to children: Fiabe in Jazz (fairy tales in jazz).
INSPIRATION
Rome’s Live Music Concerts In November
2022 FESTIVAL PROGRAM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Fiabe Jazz: I Musicanti di Brema
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 11am
New Talent Jazz Orchestra
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 6pm
Lady Blackbird
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi, 9pm
Ralf Schmid: Pyanook
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Rosa Brunello: Sounds Like Freedom ft. Yazz Ahmed, Enrico Terragnoli, Marco Frattini
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi, 9pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Erik Friedlander The Throw
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Ramona Horvath/Nicolas Rageau
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Enrico Rava/Christian Fennesz/Talvin Singh
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli, 9pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
Nubya Garcia
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli, 9pm
Kodex
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
Fabrizio Consoli/Fausto Beccalossi: Pasolini Ballate e Canzoni
Teatro del Lido (Ostia), 9pm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Spyro Gyra
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli, 9pm
Lino Volpe/Rosario Giuliani: Jazz Story
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 9pm
Fabrizio Consoli/Fausto Beccalossi: Pasolini Ballate e Canzoni
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Fiabe Jazz: Cenerentola Rock
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 11am
Jazz Campus Orchestra
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 6pm
Mingus Big Band
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi, 9pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Kekko Fornarelli: Anthropocene
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi, 9pm
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Isfar Sarabski Quartet
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Petrassi, 9pm
Itaca 4et
Casa del Jazz, 9pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
XY Quartet: 5 astronauts
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 9pm
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Danilo Rea/Paolo Scoppola: Soundmorphosis
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli, 9pm
Jemma
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Borgna, 9pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Alfa Mist
Monk Club, 9.30pm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Steve Coleman Quintet
Auditorium Parco della Musica – Sala Sinopoli, 9pm
November 6 – 19, 2022
Venues
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Viale Pietro de Coubertin
Monk Club
Via Giuseppe Mirri, 35
Casa del Jazz
Villa Osio, Viale di Porta Ardeatina, 55
Teatro del Lido (Ostia)
Viale delle Sirene, 22
