The Bflat Jazz Festival enters the heart of its eighth edition, with the national premiere of the famous British band Matt Bianco.
The prestigious festival, with the artistic direction of Marcotullio Coco, a fixed point of reference for Sardinian fans, will take place from 26 September to the end of November, with over 20 concerts located between the club in via del Pozzetto, the Auditorium of the Conservatory and various squares. towns.
A rich program of national and international guests including Fabrizio Bosso, Chiara Civello, the award-winning American pianist Johnny O'Neal, Fabio Concato and many others.
The highly anticipated inaugural appointment will be Sunday 26 at the Conservatory auditorium (starting at 20.30) with Matt Bianco, a band born in England in 1982 by Mark Reilly on vocals, Danny White on keyboards and Kito Poncioni, unfortunately passed away in 2001. at the bottom.
The name of the band refers to a fictional character inspired by the world of spies and secret agents, protagonists of a lot of cinema of the 50s, 60s and 70s, whose soundtracks Mark Reilly loved.
At the release of the first album "Whose Side Are You On?" The Polish singer Basia Trzetrzelewska joins the group, bringing that jazz dimension to the vocal arrangements of the album from then on, a peculiar trait of the group and of the superhits "Get out of your Lazy Bed" and "Half a Minute" that will make Matt Bianco one of the most famous bands of the 80s.
Basia and Danny White leave the group after the first album and Mark Reilly finds keyboardist and musician Mark Fisher with whom to record the album Matt Bianco, which includes the smash hit "Yeah Yeah", followed by a European tour that saw them perform. in front of more than 250,000 people.
Basia and Danny White reunite with Mark Reilly to reform the original Matt Bianco in 2003, after 20 years of separation and release, in 2004, the album "Matt's Mood" with Universal Records with a world tour that includes stops in the Kingdom. United, Japan and the United States.
In 2009 Mark Reilly and Mark Fisher joined forces and released the album "HiFi Bossanova", their first studio album together after 7 years. They continue to perform in concerts and jazz festivals around the world and in 2012 they release "Hideaway".
In 2017 "Gravity" was released album for which Matt Bianco chose a band of musicians from Jazz and with whom Mark Reilly made the long tour after the release of the disc.
Gravity is the artist's most mature work, the result of a musical and personal journey that led him to abandon some of the most pop-related colors of his eighties production, to propose a more elegant, refined and sophisticated sound.
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