New Orleans, Blues & Boogie
Marco Betti presents a new line of research, investigating and rediscovering the popular origins of African-American popular music, born in places that offered relief from everyday life’s fatigue through the liberation of body and soul.
The repertoire is shaped like a picture gallery: small windows on the humble yet powerful folk roots of a great cultural heritage that will eventually develop into one of the most important musical genres of the twentieth century.
It’s night, and the folks at a Juke Joint in Texas shake away the dirt of another workday to a feverish boogie-woogie.
An out-of-tune piano plays a honky tonk in Storyville, the most infamous vice street in the amazing cultural melting pot of New Orleans, between the Mississippi river and the Caribbeans.
Ray Charles, left alone in a fancy club in NYC, plays a majestic gospel that no one will hear.
The Fortune Tellers will read your palm, and their music will conjure these spirits and lots more.
- Marco Betti: drums
- Francesco Palmisano: piano