THE STREETS OF SWING review for Daniel Jordan

Monica Genesio, singer, and so in love with while reading a book: Lady Sing The Buesa. Louis Armstrong aka Satchmo The famous, defines it as an icon of his performances, but who are we talking about you say, the renowned Billie Holiday, whom he touched with his emotions voice of the greatest blues players, his way around human and intimate talk with the swing. During the interview, he says. So I started to analyze texts and study an appropriate repertoire of songs that I wanted to convey the idea and image of this person, trying to capture these characteristics carefully. My research on Billie was a deepening in parallel between the book and listen to his songs. A troubled life of the Holiday, the story of the book describes the moments of his life, do not forget the color of his skin at that time was playing for the people of the south as a "dirty nigger" system that only works of the lowest order , let alone a female figure dedicated to singing. I was still absorbed in Genesis, surrounded by the world of which she was a member, raped, mocked, and who knows what other strange things, I got carried away in that dimension, as when it is sucked into the time machine. It 'was for me to relive all the experiences with the music player which I pursued in my show with the help of Dario Berlucchi Meinardi Paolo on guitar and piano.
This is what he wanted to play by simply reading a book a stall of used occasionally found on our good Genesio Monica, giving rise to a route from Baltimore listing step by step the story of Billie Holiday (then twelve), up to sing with the most influential musicians, to end our trip to New York, sinking in the musical culture of the 30s - 50 creating a show that goes beyond the imagination, not only for devotees of swing. The narrator of the radio drama during the show is Claudia Cotza, his voice has been able to read with the emphasis moving it to the viewer right in the honors size. The journey for our Monica Genesio is still rising, not for his skill, perhaps because of the stupidity on the proposed musical genre.

Turin (Italy), November 14, 2011