The chance of creating an independent label, linked to the festival events, opened up on our way in 2008. Our consolidated relationship of mutual recognition and friendship pushed us to move on from an emotional level of exchange, to a more practical cooperation and brilliant idea of recording the more important live concerts of the Festival.
Another fact suggested to take a firm step along this path: our staged concerts are often a collaboration between great stars of the international jazz scene, and young emerging talents of the Italian jazz panorama. At times, this happens with some of the young musicians that did well in the Jimmy Woode award, the Festival’s award for young bands and musicians under thirty.
This fact is not only rewards the effort of promoting the new Italian emerging talents, but also gives the concerts a fundamental quality: uniqueness. If the great jazz performers that play in European jazz Festivals, usually have their own bands and sidemen, in our Festival, they play with musicians that we invite as teachers in our master classes and with some outstanding talents from our Jimmy Woode award. So we starter in 2008 with the CD featuring Rick Margitza and Domenico Sanna’s trio, then Tony Monaco with Flavio Boltro, Shawnn Monteiro with Francesco Marziani’s trio.
We continued in 2009 with the recordings of Giorgio Rosciglione quintet, “Hot Interplay” with Gianni Giudici and Fabrizio Bosso, “Latin Jazz Explosion” with Ray Mantilla/Edy Martinez’s quintet; then Leonardo Corradi and Friends, with guest stars Abraham Burton and Tony Monaco. In 2010 W.O.S.T. Massimo D’Avola trio, then the quintet of the great Dave Liebman, the magnificient trio formed by Eddy Gomez, Dado Moroni on piano and Marco Valeri on drums. In 2011 we recorded George Garzone meets Eugenio Macchia Trio, and the new record of Leonardo Corradi, featuring Peter Bernstein on guitar.
We are proud to have been mentioned as one of the best Italian jazz labels in the annual poll launched by the specialized press “JAZZ IT”, with our young talented artist Leonardo Corradi, winner of our Jimmy Woode Award voted as best “hammond player”; Massimo D’Avola also recorded by our label, coming in 2nd best on tenor sax, his CD rd best classified, our Artistic Director, Italo Leali, best organizer, and the Festival itself, second best only to the large, and 40 year old, Umbria jazz.

Mauro Dolci

“Tuscia In Jazz Live” Record Label Director