Free tickets for the concert are available at Križanke Box Office.

Bellini Jazz Combo
Rosalba Bentivoglio, vocals
Paolo Sorge, guitar
Eugenio Macchia, piano
Alberto Fidone, electric bass guitar
Francesco Cusa, drums

Programme:
Herbie Hancock: Dolphin Dance
Arthur Altman / Jack Lawrence: All or nothing at all
Irving Berlin: How deep is the ocean?
McCoy Tyner: Passion Dance
Betty Carter: Tight
Sergio Mihanovich / Tony Winston: Sometime Ago
Thelonious Monk / Mike Ferro: Well You Needn’t
Jimmy Rowels / Norma Winston: A Timeless Place (The Peacocks)
Harry Warren / Max Gordon: There Will Never Be Another You

The Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini di Catania, on the island of Sicily, offers its students a high-level academic programme in jazz through the Department of New Languages and Musical Technologies directed by Prof. Renato Messina for the School of Electronic Music and Prof. Paolo Sorge for the School of Jazz. Jazz, one of the musical revolutions of the 20th century, continues to exert an irresistible charm on musicians and listeners alike, especially during live performances. Its essence lies in collective improvisation, where musicians, while following a predefined framework, enjoy extraordinary creative freedom. Every performance is a unique, unrepeatable act, where the musical form comes to life in the interplay between musicians, making each piece a fresh new experience that exists only in the moment it is played. The faculty of the Catania School of Jazz are musicians with solid national and international artistic careers. Their activities, marked by many awards and recognitions, are ongoing, as they continue to perform alongside their teaching. In their first year working together, they decided to form the Bellini Jazz Combo, a flexible ensemble that changes in size depending on the repertoire, occasion, and availability of musicians. This project allows the faculty to share their experience and musical language not only in an academic setting, but also on stage, the natural habitat of jazz. The Bellini Jazz Combo’s repertoire is rooted in the historical foundations of jazz, but as often happens among jazz musicians, it constantly evolves thanks to the spontaneity of performances, which transform each piece into a blank canvas upon which to trace new paths and sound dialogues.