Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM
Line-up:
Alex Hitchcock – Tenor Saxophone
Paolo Petrecca – Trumpet
Fergus Mccreadie – Piano
Michelangelo Scandroglio – Double bass
Mattia Galeotti – Drums
About
Michelangelo Scandroglio, barely twenty years old, is already considered one of the most interesting promises of Italian jazz. He was one of the winners of the Riga International Jazz Bass Competition, he won the Tomorrow’s Jazz 2018 prize for the best young talents of Italian jazz, he was the winner of the “Conad Jazz Contest” organized by Umbria Jazz and awarded by a jury chaired by Paolo Fresu .He took the second place at the Top Jazz 2020 of Musica Jazz as the best Italian young talent of the year.
In 2021 he won the Getxo International Jazz Competition in Bilbao. In 2022 he was selected for the prestigious Betty Carter Jazz Ahead at Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
“In the Eyes of the Whale” is his first album as a composer and leader released on “Auand Records” in January 2020 .
The project in wins the call “New Generation jazz” launched by I-Jazz and supported by the MiBACT (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities), which will include numerous concerts at festivals, clubs and festivals prestigious institutions and Italian and European cities “Italian Jazz Days”, annual showcase, residences and artistic projects.