The world of music and jazz is in mourning for the death of Mario Guidi , manager of major musicians, including his son, pianist John, Enrico Rava and also the Stefano Bollani , who died in his home town of Foligno, after a quick illness. Many of the memories and the greetings of condolences from friends, musicians and festival for what for many is considered a pioneer of Italian jazz. The funeral will be held Sunday, December 29 at 15.30 in the church of Sterpete in Foligno.
“it’s A sad news – writes Umbria Jazz – because it has left us a friend and a great lover of music. Gathered around the pain of the family, we want to remember how he wanted the son John. Hello Mario, that the land will be mild”. The festival has also made us to know that the notes of Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto from 28 December to 1 January (where amongst other things it provided for the exhibition floor only of the son, will accompany him on his last trip”.
And it was his son John to break the news on Facebook of the death of the father. “This morning he wrote,” dad is gone. It was a great surprise, but think about it, we could all be certain that it would be able to not suffer for nothing. Exactly as he wished”. the Enrico Rava recalls the friend: “Something that I never wanted to have to write: Mario Guidi is gone.
for over thirty years, my co-worker is indispensable, and brilliant, and my dear friend. I have no words to express my gratitude to him”.
Paolo Fresu , as a musician and president of the national Federation of Italian Jazz, has remembered as “an agent and a manager, the enlightened one.” “Mario, he added, was one of the first to take the path of a profession that, in the Italy of the Eighties, did not exist. In his long years of activity is occupied by artists such as Enrico Rava and Stefano Bollani contributing with love and passion, to give light to the artistic also to his beloved son John, now one of the most creative pianists in europe. At the beginning of his career he occupied for a small period of my activity and other musicians ‘friends’. A great lover of jazz, he was to live in this world for passion contribuendone to the development of artistic and professional that, from 2018, has led him to be the vice president of the national association of Ijn which is part of the national federation of The Italian Jazz”.
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