Riccardo Del Fra

Upcoming Gigs

Broadway Letters trio Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Hauts-de-France, France +

Dec 14

Jazz À Véd'a La Ferme d'en Haut / 268 rue Jules Guesde
59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq
France
03 20 31 90 50

with Alain Jean-Marie (piano), Pierre Carbonneaux (sax), Riccardo Del Fra (double bass)
From Broadway to Hollywood, from Manhattan to Paris, songs have a history and stories that continue to inspire composers, arrangers, and improvisers.
Who was Gail Russell? What is the connection between the film The Uninvited and the ballad Stella by Starlight?
Despite its immediate popularity, the song Body and Soul was banned from radio for nearly a year because of its suggestive lyrics, which were clearly sexual in nature. But is that the only reason for its great success?

Riccardo Del Fra / Hard-Bop Fever quintet Paris, IDF, France +

Dec 18

JASS CLUB PARIS 141 Rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris
France
09 54 56 79 01

Hard-Bop Fever quintet
Riccardo Del Fra reunites a quintet for this evening, bringing together several generations of soloists. Together, they breathe new life into the hard bop repertoire of the 1960s and 70s, which is all too rarely rediscovered. They perform compositions by Horace Silver, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Clifford Brown, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, the Adderley brothers, and Joe Henderson—musicians who have left their mark on the history of jazz and whom Riccardo Del Fra honors here.

Thomas Mestres (tp), Pierre Carbonneaux (s), Alain Jean-Marie(p), Paul Morvan (d) / Riccardo Del Fra (db)
2 gigs : 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.