17/04/2020
– A diary of a Jazz musician under lockdown days in Italy. In collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm.
: Jazz shall not be quarantined. A daily serial held by the Italian composer, drummer and musician Cecilia Sanchietti, entirely dedicated to jazz (17-30 April 2020). As Italy shuts down, jazz and its artists transform, renew themselves, find solutions and news opportunities. Concerts, festivals and events are cancelled as venues close and music schools suspend all activities. Human and economic effects of this pandemic are huge. People cannot meet to play professional music nor for fun. Now, more than ever, people understand how music is a vital source.
However, thanks to its inner strength, jazz music finds its way out. Music is life and thus vital for people, who listen to it.
Jazz music adapts to the lockdown and moves towards people. It finds new ways to shorten distance and transmit emotions, information, culture, education. More than any other music genre, jazz has a creative, interpersonal and a human nature. A computer or a smartphone become an instrument to get involved and keep people together.
Follow it on the Istituto Italiano di Cultura "C.M. Lerici" official page.
