Chicago Cultural Center was crowded yesterday in occasion of the European Jazz Festival. On the first of these two free nights of music, Edoardo Marraffa (tenor and sopranino saxophones) and Alberto Braida (piano) were invited to represent Italy and Italian jazz. The magnificent Preston-Bradley Hall was full with people involved into music and jazz improvisation lovers.
The extraordinary natural acoustics of the Hall magnified Marraffa and Braida’s interplay: the delicate, tradition-rooted pianism of Alberto Braida intermingled with the more radically experimental and aggressive sounds produced by Edoardo Marraffa’s saxes. The result, aggressive and enchanted at the same time, literally hypnotized the audience.
It comes then as no surprise that they got a long round of applause at the end of their exhibition. The two musicians too seemed to be very satisfied with their first Chicago experience!
It comes then as no surprise that they got a long round of applause at the end of their exhibition. The two musicians too seemed to be very satisfied with their first Chicago experience!