The 13th edition of the Battiati Jazz Festival promoted by’Musikante Cultural Association with the artistic direction of Antonio Petralia, continued its journey at the auditorium of the Sant’Agata Li Battiati Cultural Hub with a new event dedicated to the encounter between jazz and literature.
The musical protagonist of the evening was the guitarist and singer Alessandro Panicola with the project “Pure Bossa Nova”, a refined journey through Brazilian music that transcends the most common stereotypes to restore the authentic essence of one of the most fascinating musical languages of the twentieth century.
Through the essential formula of guitar and voice, Panicola proposed a journey built around the great protagonists of Brazilian author song, from Dorival Caymmi a Caetano Veloso, passing through Antonio Carlos Jobim and the historic composers of Samba-Canção. A musical research attentive to the roots of Bossa Nova, reinterpreted through a contemporary, intimate, and personal sensibility.
At the center of the project are the essentiality of sound, measured vocals, and a guitar capable of building suspended and evocative harmonic textures. The result is music far removed from virtuosic display for its own sake, in which every element contributes to the creation of an intimate atmosphere, leaving room for listening, nuance, and the communicative power of the melody.
As per the festival's tradition, the concert was preceded by a moment dedicated to literature with the presentation of “That unfortunate Sunday in February”, novel by the writer Enrico Scandurra, confirming Musikante's desire to connect different artistic forms within a single cultural experience.
With “Pure Bossa Nova”, He Battiati Jazz Festival 2026 thus offering the public a new encounter between word and sound, continuing a path that makes the dialogue between music, literature and territory one of the distinctive elements of the cultural programming of the Musikante Association.