On Wednesday the 9^th of May, Caterina Comeglio and the Jazz Company big band will be part of an important found raising event organized by the Italian company MGP Comunicazione.

The event will support the development project for Telefono Amico, a charity organization that has been running in Italy since 1967. Telefono Amico provides free counselling with an anonimous call centre service that is active all year round through 700 charity workers in 21 call centres.

The event will take place in the beautiful Westin Palace Hotel in Piazza della Reubblica, Milan.

After a gala dinner, the guests will be entertained by Caterina and the Jazz Company. The repertoire of the evening will be an homage to the greatest female voices of jazz and soul music: Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Etta James.

For more information on the event visit http://www.mgpcomunicazione.it/news/stai-con-noi.

About the Jazz Company Big Band.

Founded by Gabriele Comeglio in the early nineties from the ashes of the prestigious RAI big band, the staff orchestra from RAI (the Italian public broadcasting company) and alongside the best studio and jazz musicians from the Milan area.
The big band has backed up actor/singer Massimo Lopez (one of Italy’s foremost TV personalities) in a five year long tour of the show “Ciao Frankie” largely based on Frank Sinatra’s repertoire , and also accompanies award winning singer/D.J Nick the Nightfly, who has recently gained the top of the Italian chart with the album “The Devil”, a mixture of jazz standards and pop songs orchestrated for the big band by Comeglio himself .
The orchestra has also played with a number of world class jazz soloists and singers: Bob Mintzer (European premiere of the music from the Grammy-winning album “Homage to Count Basie”), Randy Brecker, Phil Woods (under the name “Jazz Class Orchestra”), Charlie Mariano, Slide Hampton, Lee Konitz, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Patti Austin.