{"id":328,"date":"2010-07-21T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T17:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/07\/italy_here_i_come\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:50","slug":"italy_here_i_come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/italy_here_i_come.html","title":{"rendered":"Italy here I come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sienajazz.it\/en\/forum-laboratorio-di-informatica.html\">Siena Jazz Workshop<\/a> has me present my book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/mocinfo.html\">Miles Ornette Cecil &#8211; Jazz Beyond Jazz <\/a><\/i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miles-Ornette-Cecil-Beyond-ebook\/dp\/B000SHK1DQ\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">buy it for your Kindle!<\/a>) Sunday, July 25 at 10 am (yes, in Siena, Italy).&nbsp;Can you suggest unmissable music in Tuscany (or Vetirbo through July 31?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"siena square.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/siena%20square.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>In Siena I&#8217;ll talk and show brief bits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisfelver.com\/films\/taylor.html\">Cecil Taylor, explosive improvising composer\/pianist explaining his method<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2008\/06\/06\/shirley-clarke-s-ornette-coleman-made-in-america\/\">Ornette Coleman&#8217;s Prime Time<\/a> with the symphony and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miles-Electric-Different-Kind-Blue\/dp\/B00069FKN2\/?tag=howardmacom-20\">Miles, miles, miles<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/xoomer.virgilio.it\/upsma\/\">Francesco Martinelli<\/a>, esteemed colleague, curator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/centrostudi.sienajazz.it\/\">Siena Jazz Archive<\/a>, teacher of Jazz History during the Workshop and friend, will translate.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Mandel - Miles Ornette Cecil-1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/assets_c\/2010\/07\/Mandel - Miles Ornette Cecil-1-thumb-280x422-16419.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"422\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Know of other hot gigs?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Following my presentation I&#8217;ll be hearing Workshop masterclass bands, jams and concerts, and I&#8217;m also trying to get to the 9th edition of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tusciainjazz.it\/\"> Tuscia in Jazz Festival<\/a> in the hillside town of Soriano nel Cimino and city of Nepi in the Viterbo region. But your suggestions about jazz or beyond (experimental, unusual, site-specific, locally tradiitonal) in Tuscany and Viterbo regions through July 31 are hereby invited. Please let me know about live music (any genre) coming up in those whereabout &nbsp;by leaving a comment below.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks, and I&#8217;ll report on what happens.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siena Jazz Workshop has me present my book Miles Ornette Cecil &#8211; Jazz Beyond Jazz (buy it for your Kindle!) Sunday, July 25 at 10 am (yes, in Siena, Italy).&nbsp;Can you suggest unmissable music in Tuscany (or Vetirbo through July 31?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,920,918,196,413,923,60,919,922,924,921],"class_list":{"0":"post-328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-cecil-taylor","8":"tag-francesco-martinelli","9":"tag-jazz-in-tuscany","10":"tag-miles-davis","11":"tag-miles-ornette-cecil-jazz-beyond-jazz","12":"tag-nep","13":"tag-ornette-coleman","14":"tag-siena-jazz-workshop","15":"tag-soriano-nel-cimino","16":"tag-tuscia-in-jazz-festival","17":"tag-viterbo-jazz","18":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":227,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/08\/best_review_ever_of_miles_orne.html","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"best review ever of Miles Ornette Cecil &#8212; Jazz Beyond Jazz","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"August 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm humbled by writer-poet-performance artist\u00c2\u00a0Kirpal Gordon's appreciation of and insight into my book on the avant garde through the models of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, in the just-posted NOLA issue of Big Bridge magazine. 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