Jazz entered the Bentivoglio in October 1989. Since then, many great musicians have honored us with their magic and their poetry. These names include:
George Adams, Ralph Alessi, Eric Alexander, Ben Allison, Giovanni Amato, Franco Ambrosetti, Amedeo Ariano, Nicola Arigliano, Riccardo Arrighini, Carlo Atti, Giacomo Aula, Jean Jacques Avenel, Teodross Avery, Stefano Bagnoli, Lele Barbieri, Kenny Barron, Gary Bartz, Gianni Basso, Francesco Bearzatti, Paolo Benedettini, Jerry Bergonzi, Tim Berne, Stefano Bollani, Flavio Boltro, Rosario Bonaccorso, Salvatore Bonafede, Fabrizio Bosso, Randy Brecker, Cameron Brown, Reverend Lee Brown, Luca Bulgarelli, Dave Burrell, Sigi Busch, George Cables, Francesco Cafiso, Rossana Steve Cardenas, Casale, Gianni Cazzola, Dedé Ceccarelli, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Franco Cerri, Marc Chaloss, Chris Cheek, Cyrus Chestnut, Renato Chicco, Pietro Ciancaglini, Teo Ciavarella, Bruno Cipelli, Gerald Cleaver, Jimmy Cobb, Richie Cole, Scott Colley, George Colligan, Ravi Coltrane, Keith Copeland, Gianni Coscia, Ronnie Cuber, Duduca Da Fonseca, Paolino Dalla Porta, Franco D'Andrea, Santi Debriano, Bruno De Filippi, Felice Del Gaudio, Maria Pia Devito, Stefano Di Battista, Joey Di Francesco, Furio Di Castri, Eumir Deodato, Miguel "Anga" Diaz, Joe Diorio, Wayne Dockery, Silvia Donati, Ray Drummond, Billy Drummond, Bobby Durham, Vincent Ector, Christian Escoudé, Essiet Okun Essiet, Sangoma Everett, Dario Faiella, Antonio Faraò, Massimo Faraò, Piergiorgio Farina, Art Farmer, Joe Farnsworth, Riccardo Fassi, Bebo Ferra, Riccardo Fioravanti, Ettore Fioravanti, Chico Freeman, Davide Fregni, Paolo Fresu, Tal Farlow, Claudio Fasoli, Garrison Fewell, Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano, Roberta Gambarini, George Garzone, Roberto Gatto, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Maurizio Giammarco, Steve Gilmore, Javier Girotto, Greg Gisbert, Rosario Giuliani, Eddie Gomez, Lincoln Goines, Bill Goodwin, Rachel Gould, Johnny Griffin, Steve Grossman, Hengel Gualdi, Giovanni Guidi, Steve Gut, Helio Halves, Slide Hampton, Billy Harper, Tom Harrell, Billy Hart, David Hazeltine, Eddie Henderson, Red Holloway, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Jonathan Kreisberg, Steve Kuhn, Max Ionata, Frank Lacy, Steve Lacy, Tomaso Lama,
Byron Landham, John Lee, Eric Legnini, Piero Leveratto, Victor Lewis, Joe Locke, Frank Locrasto, Lionel Lueke, Curtis Lundy, Brian Lynch, Lee Konitz, Stafford James, Alain Jean Marie, François Jeanneau, Paul Jeffrey, Reggie johnson, Sheila Jordan, Sergio Mandini, Luca Mannutza, Massimo Manzi, Frank Marocco, Kenny Martin, Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Giovanni Mazzarino, Cecil Mcbee, Brother Jack McDuff, Francisco Mela, Nico Menci, Alessio Menconi, Christian Meyer, Mike McGuirk, Luciano Milanese, Mulgrew Miller, Alian Millet, Maurizio Minardi, Bob Mintzer, Annibale Modoni, Ada Montellanico, James Moody, Bob Moover, Fabio Morgera, Massimo Moriconi, Dado Moroni, James Morrison, Nilson Motta, Mark Murphy, Sal Nistico, Adam Nussbaum, Piero Odorici, Lello Pareti, Dion Parson, Lino Patruno, Niels H. O Pedersen, Ben Perowsky, Gianluca Petrella, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enzo Pietropaoli, Marco Pignataro, Anthony Pinciotti, Andrea Pozza, Alvin Queen, Joe Quitske, Cristos Rafalides, Enrico Rava, Danilo Rea, Eric Revis, Marc Ribot, Ben Riley, Manu Roche, Giorgio Rosciglione, Claudio Roditi, Aldo Romano, Paul Rogers, Micael Rosen, Roberto Rossi, Antonello Salis, Antonio Sanchez, Daniele Scannapieco, Larry Schneider, Harwey Schwartz, Tony Scott, Renato Sellani, Fabrizio Sferra, Bob Sheppard, Hal Singer, Alex Sipiagin, Larry Smith, dr. Lonnie Smith, Gary Smulyan, Jim Snidero, Luciana Souza, Mike Stern, Peggy Stern, Bob Stoloff, Steve Swallow, Marco Tamburini, Ares Tavolazzi, Luigi Tessarollo, John Thicai, Daniele Tittarelli, Giovanni Tommaso, Marcello Tonolo, Pietro Tonolo, Tino Tracanna, Stefano Travaglini, Lorenzo Tucci, Mark Turner, Steve Turre, Alain Vankenhove, Jimmy Villotti, Miroslav Vitous, Mal Waldron, Jack Walrath, Cedar Walton, Bobby Watson, John Webber, David Weiss, Kenny Werner, Lenny White, Buster Williams, David Williams, Phil Woods, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Zanchini, Elliot Zigmund, Enzo Zirilli, Glauco Zuppiroli.
These musicians where joined by others in wild jam sessions which have often gone on until the wee hours of the morning. Among these, we'd like to mention:
Winton Marsalis e quasi tutta la Lincoln Jazz Orchestra, Joe Lovano, Max Roach, Lucio Dalla, Terrel Stafford, Ron Blake, Peter Washington, Charnett Moffett, Uri Caine, Herbie Hancock, Doctor Dixie Jazz Band
The stage of the Bentivoglio has also whitnessed excursions into the worlds of pop, rock and cantautori. Among the diverse artists who have passed by, we'd like to name:
Irene Grandi, Biagio Antonacci, Enrico Silvestri, Bungaro, Luca Carboni, Bracco di Graci, Angela Baraldi, Mazapegul, Franz Campi, Nada, Pietra Montecorvino, Claudio Lolli, Avion Travel, Giorgio Conte, Kay McCarthy, Tullio Ferro, Pippo Pollina, Andrea Mingardi, Patrizia Laquidara, John De Leo, Gino Paoli, Antonella Ruggero, Fausto Mesolella, Giorgio Conte, Roy Paci, Petra Magoini, Ferruccio Spinetti
In honor of the ten-year anniversary of our live jazz, in October 1999 we issued a CD entitled "Marco Storari Trio Live in Bentivoglio". This disc, recorded by Gianni Grassilli with graphics by Nerio Pellarin, presents Jimmi Villotti (alias Marco Storari) in the unusual and intriguing role of a refined jazz pianist. A number of copies are still available (almost exclusively) at the Bentivoglio.
This CD is already out of catalog but a new one has taken its place, still by Jimmy Villotti. This time the "guru" of bolognese jazz is accompanied by Massimo Faraò on piano and by a great rythm section formed by Bobby Durham on drums and Wayne Dockery on bass. This new beautiful piece of music is called "MASSIMO FARAO' JIMMY VILLOTTI QUARTET LIVE IN CANTINA BENTIVOGLIO" and features almost only original compositions by the two leaders. Some copies are still available at our Cantina.
This last CD as well is not available anymore, but we have a new one. In fact in 2006 we have produced our own jazz band, an "almost big band" called BLUE MIDNIGHT ORCHESTRA, a nonet that plays original arrangements of the great standards of the swing era. Led by distinguished arranger and piano player Gianmarco Gualandi and featuring the splendid voice of Lara Luppi the group has recorded a live concert at Cantina Bentivoglio and the CD is now on sale at our premises.
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