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Bergamo Jazz

The handover between Bergamo Film Meeting and Bergamo Jazz is set for Sunday afternoon, March 19, and will take place in two consecutive moments. At 3:15 PM, there will be a screening of Les Félins (Joy House, 1967) by René Clément, Jane Fonda’s first film in France, where she plays a beautiful and wealthy American woman named Melinda. Noir atmospheres, suspense and a stellar cast for a film scored by Lalo Schifrin, an Argentinian composer and pianist who also dabbled in jazz (with Dizzy Gillespie, Bob Brookmeyer and others).
Following this, the program of the evening will feature a live scoring by pianist Simone Graziano of L’inferno (1911), an adaptation of the First Canticle of the Divine Comedy for a long time only available in damaged or censored copies. Considered to be one of the masterpieces of silent cinema, the was restored to its original edition in 2016 by a lengthy restoration project curated by the Cineteca di Bologna.
Simone Graziano is one of the most prominent and musically interesting names on the current Italian jazz scene. Thanks to the many projects he curated, he has been unanimously acclaimed by critics and has consistently been voted among the best Italian artists, groups and records in various editions of Musica Jazz’s Top Jazz poll. His most recent album, Embracing the Future, is a solo exploration of the piano, specially prepared to produce unusual sounds.

In collaboration with Bergamo Jazz Festival