ELLINGTON THE DUKE: CUARTET

The 38th Festival Tra Lago e Monti features two concerts in Varenna with a uniquely distinctive repertoire.
The first event will take place on Tuesday, August 5th, at Villa Cipressi at 9:15 PM.

Admission to the concert is free.

QUARTET:

ROBERTO PORRONI – guitar
ADALBERTO FERRARI – clarinet and C melody saxophone
MARIJA DRINCIC – cello
MARCO RICCI – double bass
with
TOMMY BRADASCIO – drums

Duke Ellington is one of the greatest figures in 20th-century music. His jazz is marked by exceptional elegance (including in his attire, which earned him the nickname “Duke”) and by constant artistic exploration.
Alongside his most famous masterpieces, this program revives some of his lesser-known but highly artistic works, such as Oclupaca, Smada, The Mooche, and the Sacred Concerts, which Ellington himself described as the most important thing he had ever done.