Jazz Articles about Virginia Genta

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Festivals Talking

Moers Festival Interviews: Virginia Genta

by Martin Longley
March 29, 2024

There is a tradition in the small German city of Moers, although its aims are far from traditional in orientation. Unless we consider the already sixty-year history (at least) of jazz-derived free improvisation. The Moers Festival has run since 1972, originally bent on exploring the vitality of free jazz, and still resolved towards that direction today, although now acknowledging the input of rock, folkloric, electronic and moderne new music elements. Since 2008, the city of Moers has ...

Album Review

Virginia Genta: Rough Enough

Read "Rough Enough" reviewed by Nicola Negri

by Nicola Negri
August 7, 2016

Virginia Genta is a young Italian saxophonist that has already established herself on the international free jazz scene with the hard working, constantly touring Jooklo Duo (with David Vanzan on drums) and through countless collaborations with important figures in improvised music, from Sonny Simmons and Famoudou Don Moye to Thurston Moore and Kawabata Makoto. This new record--about 10 minutes of music released in a beautifully packaged 7" on Holidays Records--consists of a solo tenor sax improvisation referencing both 1960s Fire ...