The journey through classic jazz styles that characterises the 18th edition of Jazz al Piccolo focuses on an emblematic moment in the history of this musical genre of Afro-American origin.
Bebop is in fact a determining passage in the history of jazz, and affected the entire universe of jazz music.
Going beyond by-now obsolete stylistic categories, the concert will take on composers who have demonstrated, on various levels, how much Bebop truly developed an idea which has had various branches.
From the fundamental Parker-Gillespie-Powell, the pillars of the new style, to the more transversal Thelonious Monk, from the composer Tadd Dameron to Afro-Cuban jazz, from Mulligan of the Tuba Band to a very particular orchestration of an improvisation by Lennie Tristano, up to a European and Italian vision of bop phrasing in the piece by Enrico Intra, the programme offers an all-round view of this stylistic universe, naturally played with a contemporary sound and attitude, as is always the case with the reinterpretations of the Civica Jazz Band, which, on this occasion, will break up into trios, quintets and nonets, just like a true ensemble.
A concert which is also a musical reflection on how it is possible to construct a different and more complete image of Bebop.