BargaJazz Festival 2008 dates announced

The final dates were published this morning for the Barga Jazz Festival 2008. Guest of honour will be David Liebman, one of the foremost contemporary saxophone players who has been active on the international Jazz scene since the early ’70s
Together with the BargaJazz Orchestra Liebman will play arrangements and compositions written especially for him by the participants of the competition,

whilst on the 27th of August there will be a quartet performance of Liebman together with of some of the very best Italian Jazz musicians: Alessandro Fabbri on drums, Alessandro Galati on piano and Ares Tavolazzi on doublebass.

As for every edition, the composition is articulated according to different categories:
(A) arrangements
(B) original compositions
(C) new composers (in collaboration with the Siena Jazz Seminars)
(D) new groups
Sections A, B, C will take place the 28th, 29th, and 30th of August at the Teatro dei Differenti in Barga. Section D will take place the 25th and 26th of August in the gardens of the Istituto Superiore di Istruzione in Barga. Included within Section D the ‘Luca Flores’ prize for best soloist newcomer will be awarded.
As well as the competition, BargaJazz_Festival_2008 envisages many other appointments between June and November: itinerant concerts in various municipalities following the scheme of the traditional “Girando alla Tonda/Turn Around” musical voyage of discovery of the Garfagnana and Lucca province – an open invitation to investigate places of particular natural beauty and cultural interest whilst enjoying a concert of the highest quality.

Concerti itineranti: “Turn Around/Girando alla Tonda” – Viaggio Musicale alla scoperta della Garfagnana e della Provincia di Lucca.

04 luglio: Gallicano Note Noire (Gipsy Jazz)
13 luglio: Castiglione di Garfagnana Dimitri Grechi Espinoza “Blues”
20 luglio: Coreglia Cristina Pantaleone Progetto Bossa
24 luglio: Fabbriche di Vallico Inter Nos Quartet
31 luglio: Gioviano (Borgo a Mozzano) Loredana Lubrano Quintet
02 agosto: Castelnuovo di Garfagnana Alta Madera & Gabriele Mirabassi
09 agosto: Capannori Sonorizzazione del film Steamboat Bill Junior di Buster Keaton – Bruno Tommaso Orchestra
13 agosto: Castelnuovo di Garfagnana BargaJazz Youth Orchestra diretta da Bruno Tommaso
14 agosto: Orecchiella, Rifugio Isera Saxophonia, gruppo di musica d’insieme della Civica Scuola di Musica di Capannori diretto da Giancarlo Rizzardi

Concerti a Barga:

21 agosto: Barga Piazza Angelio Siena Jazz Big Band
22 agosto: Barga Villa Moorings Puccini in Jazz – Riccardo Arrighini piano solo
23 agosto: Barga Piazza Angelio Kingston Youth Big Band
24 agosto: centro storico di Barga Barga IN Jazz – Perugia Funking Band, Fabrizio Bosso Quartet
25/26 agosto: Barga Istituto Superiore D’Istruzione Concorso BargaJazz sez. D gruppi emergenti, Premio “Luca Flores” al miglior solista emergente.
27 agosto: Barga Teatro dei Differenti David Liebman quartet
David Liebman – saxes, Ares Tavolazzi – contrabbasso, Alessandro Galati – pianoforte, Alessandro Fabbri – batteria
28 agosto: Barga Teatro dei Differenti Concorso BargaJazz sez. B C BargaJazz Orchestra diretta da Bruno Tommaso
29 agosto: Barga Teatro dei Differenti Concorso BargaJazz sez. A
David Liebman & BargaJazz Orchestra diretta da Bruno Tommaso
30 agosto: Barga Teatro dei Differenti Concorso BargaJazz finale David Liebman & BargaJazz Orchestra diretta da Bruno Tommaso – presenta: Michela Lombardi

More information can be found on the Barga Jazz site here

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