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In Bocconi, Nothing but Jazz

, by Susanna Della Vedova
On Thursday 26 at 9pm, the performance from BJBU, the Bocconi Jazz Business Unit

An evening dedicated to jazz will be held on Thursday 26 September at 9pm in the Aula Magna in Via Gobbi with the BJBU, the Bocconi Jazz Business Unit. The event is organized by ISU Bocconi in collaboration with Furcth Pianoforti.

The programm:

Thelonious Monk, Think of One
Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes
Wynton Marsalis Aural Oasis
Wynton Marsalis For We Folks
Wynton Marsalis Phryzzinian Man
Thelonious Monk, Crepuscule with Nellie
Wynton Marsalis Delfeayo's Dilemma
Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol Caravan

BJBU – Bocconi Jazz Business Unit
Marco Mariani, tromba
Franco Bagnoli, soprano sax and alto sax
Nicola Pecchiari, sax tenore
Michelangelo Decorato, pianoforte
Luca Zollo, contrabbasso
Nicola Stanieri, Batteria

Bocconi Jazz Business Unit presents the first preview of its latest musical project with an unambiguous title. After Jazz & Movies, dedicated to the TV theme songs that made history, Jazz Senza Confini, in which Gioacchino Rossini shared the style of Bix Beiderbecke, Seven Wheels for Wheeler!, an homage to the timeless music of Kenny Wheeler and Everything But Jazz, which contaminated rock and pop classics with jazz, Nothing But Jazz offers jazz in its purest form. In this new project, the BJBU takes on the original arrangements of Black Codes from the Underground, Wynton Marsalis's absolute masterpiece, an album that took the jazz world by force when it was released in 1985. Marsalis's music from that time is the logical continuation of the dialogue interrupted by Miles Davis with his "electric" turning point, and represents the highest level of evolution of "pure" jazz: he could not have gone further without "contaminating" or going back to the roots. So this time the BJBU is abandoning their beloved contaminations and proposing a modern, refined and essential style of jazz, playing the entire work that earned Marsalis a Grammy, while also granting a small tribute to tradition by performing Marsalis's arrangements of a specific selection of songs by Monk and Ellington.

Free entrance

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