27/05/2026
SAB.30.05 - H 19.00 live ROOTS MAGIC
ALBERTO POPOLLA clarinet, bass clarinet ➤
EUGENIO COLOMBO flutes, soprano sax ➤
ERRICO DE FABRITIIS alto & baritone sax ➤
GIANFRANCO TEDESCHI double bass ➤
FABRIZIO SPERA drums ➤
Somewhere between Deep Blues and Creative Jazz
From the Deep Blues repertoire of the late Twenties / early Thirties, Charley Patton, Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James Geeshie Wiley through the music of Creative Jazz luminaries such as Julius Hemphill, John Carter, Marion Brown, Olu Dara, Phil Cohran, Sun Ra, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Kalaparusha Maurice Mc Intyre, Charles Tyler, Kahil El Zabar, Roland Kirk
A work of love and respect for these people and for the music we grew up with
Roots Magic was born in Rome in 2013. They released four albums on Clean Feed records, Hoodoo Blues & Roots Magic (2015) Last Kind Words (2017) "Take Roots Among the Stars" (2020) "Long Old Road" (2023) which have been often voted among the best Jazz albums of the year by the likes of MusicaJazz Top Poll / Rai Radio3 / The Big City Blog / New York City Jazz Record / Observador-Lisboa / Bill Shoemaker - Point of Departure / Stereogum / Giornale della musica / Burning Ambulance / UK Jazz Radio / Controradio (I) / Bandcamp and others.
