Jazz concert by the Carugno – Viganò duo
Enzo’s big heart, the tireless commitment he put into everything – the medical profession, the education of young people, the family and the thousand relationships within Communion and Liberation and outside – do not diminish even after so many years after his ascended to heaven.
One of his friends from the 80s, Maurizio Carugno – who met Enzo in the United States, one a surgeon, the other a musician – wanted to pay homage to this friendship that never dies with a series of jazz songs. He composed them, played them, together with his colleague and friend Alberto Viganò, and transformed them into a multimedia work (Il cuore nel tutto cosa, published last year by Cantagalli, with the patronage of the Piccinini Foundation).
The heart never stops! The jazz concert by the Carugno Viganò Duo, already highly appreciated in Bologna, is now being performed again in Milan, on Sunday 10 March at 5.30 pm in the prestigious Verdi room of the Conservatory.
The initiative is promoted by AVSI (in collaboration with the Piccinini Foundation) as part of the AVSI Foundation campaign “We desire peace”. This fundraising project (which many know by the traditional name of “Tent campaign”) helps support the social, educational and health activities that the NGO carries out in 40 of the most disadvantaged countries in the world. They respond to different needs in Ecuador, India, Kenya, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uganda (and also Italy) and potentially involve 130,000 people. To be clear, thanks to this commitment we could change the lives of all the inhabitants of the Municipality of Monza or of all those of Bergamo.
On the stage of the splendid jazz concert “The heart in everything” there will be some exceptional characters.
Maurizio Carugno is a tenor saxophonist, well known on the international music scene for 30 years now. He studied and played for years in the United States, collaborating with some of the greatest jazz musicians such as Cameron Brown, Billy Hart, Jerry Bergonzi, Joe Calderazzo, Joe Diorio, Dave Kikosky, Renato Sellani and Tullio De Piscopo. For him, music is an experience of beauty, fundamental because it moves everyone’s freedom to know, deepen and judge.
Alberto Viganò is one of the most virtuous and highly regarded bassist in Europe, an experimenter on the seven/eight string bass on which he plays bass and guitar at the same time. He is the musical heir of bassists of the caliber of Alain Caron and Dominique Di Piazza. With guitarist Marco Porcu he was the founder of the group Altus Karma and collaborated for years with the famous group Gipsy King. The Jacoland luthiery laboratory created a special instrument for him, an “8-string semi-acoustic fretless”, the Heaven Bass Alberto Viganò Signature.
Together with them, three top-notch guest stars: Msgr. Giovanni Mosciatti, Raimondo Meli Lupi and Tony Arco.
Giovanni Mosciatti, Bishop of the diocese of Imola and delegate for Social Communications of the Episcopal Conference of Emilia-Romagna, is a passionate and appreciated trumpeter, an instrument he has played since his young age. He was a tireless educator of young people also through music, forming musical groups in every parish where he was sent as a priest.
Raimondo Meli Lupi, guitarist, studied at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with maestro Ennio Morricone and obtained a certificate of studies in Composition, Soundtracks and Arranging at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His guitar teacher and mentor was the legendary Joe Diorio, of whom he also became an artistic and record producer.
Tony Arco, more American (by education) than Milanese (by birth), is considered among the most significant contemporary drummers: he was the drummer of the legendary “Wally’s Jazz Club” in Boston and collaborated with jazz players of the caliber of Dave Liebman, Roy Halgrove, Bobby Watson, Tony Scott, Enrico Intra, Franco Cerri and Enrico Rava. In Milan he is a teacher at the Civic School of Jazz and has published two methods for Jazz Drums for Ricordi.
Entrance to the concert is free
