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Jazzitalia celebrates 10 years
20th June 2010
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Dear Friends, dear Readers,
20th June 2000, Jazzitalia's adventure started.
Today, after ten years, we are still here to make available a tool useful for
who needs to make known his job within jazz music area, who would like to
be updated about evolutions, trends, news of this musical world.
Thanks to the voluntary
contribution of many collaborators, some of them now consolidated, Jazzitalia
today contains more than 7000 among interviews,
reviews, lessons, articles within several sections, over
than 34000 concerts,
15000 press news,
10000 addresses, and then there are almost
300 J-Blogs, a Gallery with more than
6000 between pictures and drawings, over than
1500 artists' pages,
12000 announcements, 13
forums with more than 10000 posts, the Newsletter
with 4000 subscribers,
the already more than 1000 of videos selected from
You Tube,
more than 11000 audio samples, the
new section completely dedicated to New York, made with the collaboration
of
Roberta Zlokower,
publisher of the magazine
RobertaOnTheArts.com, a real expert of what is New York, how is
New York, why is New York...! She is a journalist, a member of the prestigious
Drama Desk jury, she is an expert of jazz, ballet, opera, arts and, finally, she
is also a very nice person. The New York section started at the beginning of
March and has been already visited more than 6000
times. There is a selection of the main jazz clubs, musical shops and events
from the Big Apple.
Moreover, Jazzitalia has been the
first magazine which has built an Italian jazz era through original and unique
documents, thanks to the contribution of Giovanni Masciolini, musicians
still alive and whoever has been a witness. A work carried out collecting,
throughout Italy, direct testimonies of those who took part in a period when
Jazz in Italy was a widespread and very popular music.
Till today, Jazzitalia has been visited more than
52 million times for a total amount of more than
137 million page views.
A big job, which could not be absolutely conceivable without
the so precious and fundamental contribution of many people. Thanks is due and
the list of names of who has made this initiative possible is very long so
surely someone could be missed. I'll mention some among who is still today a
collaborator, starting from Alceste Ayroldi, who apart being one of the
best authors of Jazzitalia, provides his contribution as Editor for the whole
web site and Coordinator of the big REVIEWS section (more than
1500 between books and CDs), continuing with
Roberta Zlokower from New York, Fabrizio Ciccarelli, Antonio Terzo, Marco Buttafuoco, Dario
Gentili, Giovanni Greto, Giuseppe Mavilla, Vittorio Pio,
Viviana Maxia, Enzo Saba, Gianni Montano,
Enzo Fugaldi, Andrea Gaggero, Roberto Biasco, Eva Simontacchi,
Alessandro Carabelli, Andrea Valiante, Franco Bergoglio, Dario Gentili, Gianmichele
Taormina, Marcello Migliosi, Luca Labrini, Cinzia Guidetti, Luca Civelli,
Paolo Incani, Rossella del Grande, Luca De Mattei, Francesco Peluso, Elio Marracci, Morena Ragone, Pietro Scaramuzzo,
Alessandro Armando, Adriana Augenti, Chiara Schillaci, Ambrogio De Palma, Elide
Di Duca, Franco Donaggio, Gaspare Bonafede, Brunella Marinelli, Daniela
Floris and many many who have, over the past ten years, collaborated and
have had the opportunity to broaden their experience with other magazines.
Then, the so numerous correspondent from festivals, cities, photographers (so
many!) who has always offered their gorgeous shots so to represent correspondent
words at the best like Roberto Aymerich,
Roberto Cifarelli, Daniela Crevena, Sergio Cimmino, Francesco
Truono, Daniele Mastrangelo, Paolo Acquati, Giorgio Alto,
Enrico Grieco, Riccardo Crimi, Alberto Gottardelli, Elisa
Caldana, Piero Graziano, Carmine Picardi, Leonardo Schiavone, Jos L. Knaepen, la Phocus Agency,
Giovanni Piesco, Pietro Previti, Alessia Scali, Davide Susa,
Elena Venier, Thomas Van Der Aa, Nadia Guida, Emanuele Vergari,
and, of course, also the press managers who accredit Jazzitalia everywhere and
allow us to offer what Jazzitalia has.
What to expect from Jazzitalia into the future? We will go
forward on several aspects: first of all we will structure always better our
editorial staff identifying specific references, roles and responsibilities, we
will widen the spectrum of musical competence looking at other selected music
from the african-american world, we will give more space to the multimedia
contents, we will change the layout so to make it accessible also through mobile
devices and…we will also evaluate the possibility to establishing an Award! So,
follow us ;-)
However, we cannot close with an unfortunately unpleasant
thought. We are living a not so good period for the culture. Cuts wherever and
anyway,
often without knowledge of the facts, are making the history of many events
hardly sustainable. And what more regrets, is that then many of them run the
risk to disappear, into the indifference of who there is today and who there
will be tomorrow to whom will remain some pictures, articles, memories. Let's
work together, let's work all of us to make that this does not decline, and
let's offer our support to whom has worked many years often just for pure
philanthropy. Let's give them a voice and let's make that all of this can
continue waiting for better times.
Marco Losavio
Jazzitalia Director - Publisher
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| 11/05/2010 | Love, Linda: The Life of Mr. Cole Porter: "If you love Cole Porter's music, rich, cognac vocals, sexy theatricality, classy, high society anecdotes, top of the line music and orchestrations, a glass of wine, and an intimate setting, then rush to The Triad, on West 72nd Street, for Stevie Holland's new Wednesday night show, "Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter"." (Roberta Zlokower) |
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