Saturday, December 17, Palazzo Grassi hosts the opening night of the Winter Venezia Jazz Festival with a gospel concert organized in collaboration with Veneto Jazz. The Boyle Harmony Gospel Singers, composed of five talented soloists from the Mississippi, go up on stage to offer the public a sound both innovative and authentic. Music inspired by the gospel quartet of the 50s and 60s will burst forth in the atrium of the palazzo and all the languages ​​of art and music will blend together to create an unforgettable experience.

Larry Lee Williams - vocals; Jermel Williams - vocals, Larry Lee Williams Jr. - bass, vocals, Joshua Williams - drums, vocals, John Deitrich Listenbee - piano, Whitney Lee Nelson - vocals.

Sunday July 31st, 2011 at Punta della Dogana at 7pm
Ty le Blanc & Venice Soul Band
Originally from El Paso, Texas, Ty began her musical career early as a singer and composer. She worked as a vocalist for funk music legends like Luther Vandross and R'n'B stars such as Angela Bofill and 112. On stage, she casually passes from Blues to Jazz and from R'n'B to funk, borrowing from rock and pop influences.

Sunday July, 31st, 2011 at the Palazzo Grassi Café, 1pm
Jazz lunch with Stefano Scutari
Stefano Scutari has always been fascinated with the Brazilian music. He spent time in Brazil, mainly in Rio, where he had the opportunity to meet many musicians. In Italy, he worked for the magazines "Guitar Club" and "Strumenti Musicali" as the editor of their sections dedicated to Brazilian music.

Saturday, July 30th, 1 pm at Palazzo Grassi Café
Jazz lunch with Nicola Dal Bo al pianoforte
Nicolas Dal Bo worked on musical studies at Benetto Marcello Music school of Venice, where he gets a piano and harpsichord diploma. He also obtains a second cycle diploma in jazz. He teaches the piano jazz and modern piano in various music schools of the province of Venice. From 1999 till 2004, he was a pianist in the Gran Cafè Quadri, St Mark's Square in Venice. He also worked with Cafè Chioggia.

Friday July 29, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi
Two appointments with the Hot Bow Trio
1pm, jazz lunch at the Palazzo Grassi Café
7pm, jazz aperitive on the water frontage of Palazzo Grassi
Mattia Martorano, violin
Andrea Boschetti, guitar
Tiziano Negrello, double-bass
This band's retro appearance and acoustics evokes a certain period, engraved on vinyl, in the sound of the gramophone, or on Edwardian portraits. Hot Bow is a modern cord trio, a tribute to France’s Hot club story and to European jazz, connecting gipsy swing with Parisian popular culture of the '30s and '40s.

Thursday, July 28th 2011 1pm at Palazzo Grassi Café
Jazz Lunch with Nina e Ves
Elena Carraro: voice
David Soto Chero: guitar
Elena Carraro was born on March 5th, 1982. Her passion for singing began at an early age, when she joined different choirs and theatre companies. After working as a chorus-singer in recordings and festivals, she studied at the Samba Batuque Branko School, managed by Marco Catinaccio, which recruits young percussionists from the Veneto region.

Wednesday July 27, 2011 at Palazzo Grassi
Two appointments with the T42 duo
1pm, jazz lunch at the Palazzo Grassi Café
7pm, jazz aperitive on the water frontage of Palazzo Grassi
Francesca Bertazzo: voice and guitar
Giuseppe Pilotto: contrabass
After studying in Italy with Tiziana Ghiglione e Francesca Olivieri, Francesca Bertazzo moved to New York to attend the Manhattan School of Music. She worked with differents bands, collaborating with Greg Tardy, Antonio Hart and Ronald Westray before returning to Italy. She stands out due to the maturity of her expressive vocals and the high quality of her performances, in which she is often accompanied by a guitar.

 Monday, July 25th 2011, 1 pm at the Palazzo Grassi Café
Jazz Lunch with Ottogalli Caverzan duo
Stephano Ottogalli : guitar
Piergiorgio Caverzan : saxo, clarinet
With a swing, bossa nova and latino repertoire, reminiscent of Cole Porter, Antonio Carlos Jobin, and gipsy jazz, the duo offers a retro connotation, characterized by the combination of the clarinet with the acoustic guitar.

Saturday, July 23th 2011 9.30 pm at Palazzo Grassi
Musica Nuda
Petra Magoni : voice
Ferruccio Spinetti : contrebass
In the atrium of Palazzo Grassi, Petra Magoni and Ferruccio Spinetti will present for the first time an original recording of their musical compositions, exclusively based on the combination of double bass and of song. COMPLICI is a simple recording of songs, that doesn’t try to surprise: Magoni and Spinetto convey messages and feelings, conversing between themselves but also with the spectator.

RYOJI IKEDA and the SOUND OF NUMBERS

Japanese artist Ikeda presents Datamatics 2.0 at Palazzo Grassi within the Nu Fest, International electronic music festival.

Sounds and visuals effects come to life in the enchanting atrium of Palazzo Grassi, Venice, for the new, extraordinary event promoted by Veneto Jazz together with the François Pinault Foundation. On Saturday March 19th, guest of honor is Ryoji Ikeda, one of the most influential personalities of the contemporary scene  who mixes  video art and electronic music.

Sunday August 1st 2010, Paolo Fresu and Daniele Di Bonaventura at Palazzo Grassi, at 9.30pm
 Devised and curated by Pino Ninfa Homage to Hugo Pratt. The Roads of Adventure is a multi-media event created as part of the Venezia Jazz Festival; it brings together a concert and a photographic exhibition. Focused upon the theme of adventure – both imagined and imaginary – the project is an act of homage to the creativity and imagination of a man who was an ‘honorary Venetian’ and used the city as the setting for a number of the cartoon strips and stories featuring his alter ego, the phlegmatic sailor Corto Maltese, who – like his creator – was a tireless traveller and romantic dreamer.

Sunday August 1st - at 1 pm at the Palazzo Grassi Café: Francesca Bertazzo Duo
"Not only a jazz singer, but a veritable musician” - this is what was said of Francesca Bertazzo Hart when, in 2003, the magazine Musica Jazz hailed her as one of the best new talents of the year. Francesca is a highly versatile artist, capable of bring together in a single show experimental vocals, bebop improvisations and old favourites from the American repertoire.

Saturday July 31st - at 1 pm at the Palazzo Grassi Cafè: Hot Bow Trio
In paying homage to the legendary Hot Club de France and a glorious period in the history of European Jazz, this modern string trio draws upon popular Parisian culture. Its repertoire ranges from traditional swing and American musical theatre (Gershwin, Porter, Kern, Carmichael) to French hot jazz and manouche (Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli) and French and Italian songs chansons (Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, Alberto Rabagliati). The trio also performs pieces they themselves have composed.

Friday July 30th: Lunch with the artist!
At 1pm at the Palazzo Grassi Café you can lunch with the famous photographer Pino Ninfa under Giovanni Masiero Duo sound.
The lunch will be followed at 2:30 pm by the presentation of the catalogue “Omaggio a Hugo Pratt. Sulle strade dell’avventura”, published by Casadei Libri.

Friday July 29th- at 1pm at the Palazzo Grassi Cafè: Giovanni Masiero Duo
Born in Noale (Venice) in 1979, Giovanni Masiero was one of the founder members of the Villanove saxophone quartet, performing with them at numerous events throughout Italy. Ranging from the classical repertoire to contemporary music, his concert experience has now extended to include jazz.

Wednesday July 28th - at 5.30 pm, at Punta della Dogana : Kicca & Intrigo
Kicca, the vocalist, and Oscar, the pianist, founded the group Intrigo in 2003. They brought their shared passion for jazz, blues, boogaloo and 60s’ soul together with a desire to explore new musical.

Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th of July, at 1 pm at the Palazzo Grassi Cafè: Nina e Ves
David Soto Chero, from Villa el Salvador (Peru), Pasquale Cosco, Marco Catinaccio and Nina are the members of an ensemble that is primarily Latin Jazz in inspiration. The rhythms of South America are combined with Italian song in a repertoire that is captivating and striking.

Monday July 26th, at 1 pm at the Palazzo Grassi Café: Intrigo a Duo
Kicca, the vocalist, and Oscar, the pianist, founded the group Intrigo in 2003. They brought their shared passion for jazz, blues, boogaloo and 60s’ soul together with a desire to explore new musical languages, working with musicians of various origins and cultural backgrounds.

Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of July, at 1 pm : Bamboccioni Swing at the Palazzo Grassi Cafè.
Bamboccioni Swing is a 30s-style jazz quintet, with a line-up of tenor sax, clarinet, double bass, guitar and drums. Whilst maintaining an ‘old fashioned’ sound, the repertoire of the band embraces a variety of atmospheres: from the great classics of swing to elegant American songs, from joyous up-tempo numbers to melancholy blues and refined ballads.