Jazz/ Press release n.38 20 May 2005

XX edition of the World Festival On The Beach
Palermo Mondello 11th -22nd may 2005

THE MONTECARLO NIGHT ORCHESTRA CLOSES THE JAZZ FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH WITH EMIL RICHARDS AND ENZO RANDISI. TONIGHT THE ELLINGTON SINGERS ON STAGE

The 4th edition of the New Jazz Festival on the Beach in Mondello will welcome a high profile show on stage this evening, the two vibraphonists Emil Richards and Enzo Randisi will play along with Montecarlo Night Orchestra. Last night was a great success for the French singer Kelly Joyce who felt at great ease on stage, she said “ I’m really happy to be back in Sicily” she speaks good Italian and has a slight north Italian accent, “ I’ve also sang in Taormina and I really love these places. I find that my music works well in these places, which are different kind of music mixed into one, like my Jazz that has pop parts in it, or my blues with Brazilian sounds to it”. It was a shame that she couldn’t play her last song as two of her band players weren’t able to make it.
This evening at 10.00pm the Duke Ellington singers will go on stage, an original band made up from the vibraphonist from Palermo Enzo Randisi, a vocal section made up of Flora Faja, Giorgia Meli, Esmeralda Ferrara, Giuseppe Vella, Giuseppe Bellanca and Tony Piscopo and a rhythms section made up of Riccardo Lo Bue (double base), Sebi Alioti (drums), and Enzo Randisi (piano and arrangements).
Randisi will be on stage also tomorrow night for the last show of the festival, with the Montecarlo Night Orchestra and the famous singer and radio presenter Nick the Nightfly, and one of the best names in American Jazz: Emil Richards. The seventy or so year old of Sicilian origin Richards (Emilio Radocchia), co-leader in the 60s (with Don Ellis) of the Hindustani Jazz Sextet, author of famous indian music researches, and was able to mix jazz music with ethnic music, and who in the 70s he worked along beside Frank Sinatra, George Benson and Frank Zappa, will play in a show that musn’t be missed.
Also on stage with the Montecarlo Night Orchestra are Claudio Angeleri (piano), Vittorio Marinoni (drums), Emilio Soana (trumpet), Sergio Orlandi (trumpe), Mauro Parodi (trumbone), Marco Esposito (electric base), Maurizio Meggiornini (sax), Paolo Barbieri (sax), Ubaldo Brusco (sax).