crosscurrentjazz

Our festival was born in 2008 with the name of Botticino Jazz, organized by artistic director Luigi Settala and the Municipality of Botticino (little town in Lombardy, northern Italy). The first edition is kept to the Theatre Lucia in Botticino from October 27 to 29, 2008, recording full house during three evenings with Corrado Guarino Quartet, Amiri Baraka Quartet, Dave Burrell with Leena Conquest and Lewis Barnes, the quartet of Sabir Mateen with William Parker, Hamid Drake and Corey Wilkes, Fabrizio Puglisi and Hamid Drake duo and William Parker's Ensemble "The inside songs of Curtis Mayfield". The great success of the initiative is testified from the presence of numerous foreign public and thrilled reviews by Italian and European press. In the second edition the festival assumes the denomination Crosscurrent (Botticino Jazz II) and it is still kept to the Theatre Lucia of Botticino from 30 to 31 October 2009. During the festival, that slightly record an inferior affluence compared to 2008, played Anthony Davis solo, James Emery solo, Anthony Davis "Episteme" Quintet, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone and Taylor Ho Bynum trio, the band Dinamitri Jazz Folklore and James Emery Quartet. The prestigious presence of Anthony Davis and James Emery, not so famous to the great public but of extreme interest for diehard jazz enthusiasts, guaranteed the collaboration with Italian national radio RAI Radio 3 that broadcasted live Anthony Davis Quintet. The choices of the artistic director Luigi Settala were rewarded by delighted reviews and growing international interest, testified from the presence of European press and radio broadcasting in Great Britain, Finland and the Netherlands. In the course of 2010, changed conditions of the relationship with the Municipality of Botticino, advise to the cultural Association Crosscurrent to broke the partnership and to reorganize its own activity with the primary objective to continue in the consolidation of the festival's prestige. Although the third edition has not seen the light in 2010, three important publishing initiatives involved Crosscurrent, increasing its international reputation: 1. Book house Auditorium has published the volume by Marcello Lorrai "William Parker. Conversazioni sul jazz", realized thanks to photographic material contribution by our official collaborator Luciano Rosetti; 2. Prestigious New York record company AUM Fidelity has published an anthology of William Parker's Ensemble entitled "I plan to sta