The first issue of Musica Jazz International is now available in English language, with previews of columns and articles. The cover story, dossier, interviews, and two accompanying CDs

Ayers died on March 4 in New York. The warm sound of his instrument has fallen silent, leaving an empty void. He was eighty-four years old and had been battling a long illness. His notes, once rays of sunshine in the jazz-funk and soul firmament, now float like precious dust in an endless sunset. The music world is left devastated and suspended, waiting for a final note that will never come. His vibraphone spoke directly to the heart, and every chord he played was a fragment of melancholic light—a thrill we now miss like a lost heartbeat. Roy Ayers leaves behind a bittersweet void—a silence filled with memories in...

The recent death of the Brazilian pianist truly marks the end of an enchanted world: a true la-la land built in the perfect image and likeness of its ingenious creator

Following performances by Christian McBride & Julian Lage, Andrea Bacchetti & Dado Moroni, Antonio Faraò in a solo piano recital, and Al Di Meola, it was the turn of Bill Frisell’s trio, expanded into a quartet for the occasion by the presence of Greg Tardy on tenor saxophone and clarinet. This was the final European date of a long summer tour, and San Biagio Island provided the ideal setting in which to bring a memorable series of concerts to a close. The festival programme was further enriched by Jazz sotto le stelle (Jazz Under the Stars), Luciano Rossetti’s photography exhibition, whose evocative images accompanied the audience along the final...

As the sun began to set over Siena’s Fortezza Medicea on June 21, 2026, a large audience composed mainly of Siena Jazz students gathered to hear one of the last living witnesses to several crucial chapters in modern jazz history. In conversation with musicologist Francesco Martinelli, bassist Reggie Workman revisited the Philadelphia of John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner, reflected on the meaning of community, recalled the birth of Collective Black Artists in New York, shared rarely heard stories about Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, and offered a lifetime’s worth of reflections on music, education and responsibility. Coltrane, Philadelphia and the Meaning of Community Francesco Martinelli: During our conversations over the...