Exactly one year on from the death of Luigi Pestalozza, one of the most important historians of twentieth century Italian music, as well as a political figure and important cultural organiser, Jazz al Piccolo is proposing an evening in his honour, with a singular programme, Border Line, perfectly in line with Pestalozza’s great cultural outlook. A concert organised in collaboration with Amici di Musica/Realtà, the association tied to the prestigious publication founded by him in the 1970s and now directed by Roberto Favaro. A programme which unites aspects of contemporary jazz, such as Per una serenata by Intra, which presents conductions and pseudo-serial parts, with moments in which great European musicians have encountered jazz or music from Afro-American origins: from piano works by Stravinski and Milhaud to the extraordinary imitative writing of a jazz band in Sweet Basil by Franco Donatori, from the colours of the brass of the quartet of Manzoni, the composer who was closest to the dedicatee of the evening, also on a personal level, to Alessandro Melchiorre, whose composition for a string quartet and narrative voice will be opening his score to piano improvisations by Enrico Intra. A programme which lies on the borders between various musical styles placed in communication with each other, finding a way to become something new and particular together, which is, perhaps, the most profound sense of contemporary music and the ideas of the late Pestalozza, who instead of the word “music”, preferred “musics”.