Seminar
Speaker: Francesco Martinelli, jazz historian, writer
March, 5 Friday İKSEV Hall,
7.00 pm
Journalist and jazz historian Francesco Martinelli has been involved in jazz promotion since 1975. In his hometown of Pisa, Italy he produced hundreds of concerts and is currently promoting the Italian Instabile Orchestra festival (since 1997). Curator of the Siena Jazz Archive, the main resource of its kind in Italy, and one of the most important in Europe, he gives courses and lectures about history of jazz and improvised music, philology and conservation of recorded sound in Siena, for the summer program of Music of New York University in Italy. He also lectured at NYU in New York, at William Paterson College as well as in Universities, Conservatories and Festival throughout Italy. Regular contributor to magazines Musica Jazz, World Music, Amadeus, as well to the All about Jazz, All Music Guide and Roots World websites, he published four monographic volumes of discographies. In 2003 he left his job as Environmental Engineer for the town of Pisa in order to pursue his activities as music journalist, jazz historian and promoter. After writing the liner notes for Anthony Braxton's Live in ’stanbul (Braxton House) and being invited to the International Jazz Festival in Istanbul, he developed an active interest in Turkish musical traditions and wrote several articles about the Jazz festivals in Turkey, Turkish jazz musicians and Cds. In 2004 and 2005 has been invited to teach for a semester to Bilgi University in Istanbul. He has been contributing İzmir European Jazz Festival organized by İzmir Foundation for Culture, Arts and Education as consultant.