Biancavilla Jazz Festival, Anthology 1996/97 (Live)
Live recordings from the Biancavilla Jazz Festival across 1996 and 1997, gathered into a twelve-track anthology. Voices from the Italian jazz canon take the stage, including Tiziana Ghiglioni and Salvatore Bonafede.
The Biancavilla Jazz Festival 1996/97 anthology gathers live recordings from one of the liveliest jazz seasons in the province of Catania during the mid-Nineties. Twelve tracks documenting a small festival capable of hosting national and international names.
Among the names on stage
Tiziana Ghiglioni (Savona, 1956), one of the most recognizable voices in Italian jazz from the Eighties onward, with a track record that includes work with Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron and Enrico Rava. Salvatore Bonafede, a Palermo-born pianist trained at Berklee, returned to Italy in 1994 and was very active as both leader and sideman across Europe at the time of the recording.
The twelve tracks
The program alternates traditional jazz standards with originals and Monk covers: Down by the Riverside, Saved, Gomma Napoletana, Havana's Short Story, Nutty (12 minutes), Gone with the Wind / What Is This Thing Called Love, Once in a While, Time for Duke, What Am I Here For, They Can't Take That Away from Me, Muskrat Ramble, Original Dixieland One Step.
The anthology is released digitally as part of the ongoing reissue and digitization work on the Anaglyphos historical catalog. It documents the context the label rose from: a local scene measuring itself against the national circuit, the idea that jazz could be made in Sicily with the same quality as the more established centers.
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