Miele Amaro’s journey aims to cast a light on the work of authors of different age and backgrounds, encompassing forty years and at least three generations. To do so, it chooses to tell this tale of music and musicians through the keyboard, as classical as it is contemporary, of a piano, leaving aside for a moment the intimate relationship of every musician with their own instrument (in some cases a unique one, as Paolo Angeli and his prepared guitar). Miele Amaro has written a transcription that tries to find a balance between jazz reinterpretation – which reclaims the pieces and tailors them, sometimes changing harmonies and forms – and the original concept of those compositions.

The project’s name, Miele Amaro, comes from a fundamental anthology of Sardinian poetry and prose, published by Salvatore Cambosu in 1954: an essential reading for those who want to approach the culture of this island. This music project is a journey through the pieces of various Sardinian musicians – from Marcello Melis to Zoe Pia through Marino Derosas, Gavino Murgia and the unmissable Paolo Fresu and Antonello Salis – to walk along those roads that go from Sardinia to jazz… and back.