Volcanic saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti ‘s project dedicated to Tina Modotti becomes a Parco della Musica Records record. Emigrant, worker, actress, photographer in 1920s Mexico, anti-fascist, militant in the international communist movement, persecuted and political exile, Tina Modotti photographed all the most famous faces of the Mexican revolution and beyond. She left from Udine and discovered social art in the United States and especially in Mexico, using the photographic medium as a tool for investigation and social denunciation, and her works, however made with aesthetic balance, frequently take on an important ideological significance: exaltation of the symbols of labor, the people and their redemption (workers’ hands, political and union demonstrations, hammer and sickle).

It is no accident that Francesco Bearzatti, heir to a plurality of musical and cultural traditions, dedicate to the figure of Tina Modotti a project, a newly formed quartet that evokes the revolutionary and subversive figure of the artist whose work was banned by McCarthyism in the United States, surviving, however, in Mexico and managing to break through but not yet as it deserves to in Europe. Bearzatti addresses a pressing jazz suite to her, a modern music that marries well with the most arduous experimentation, with terrain that is close to the avant-garde without ever being too hostile for anyone who listens. What is most surprising are the sparks of joy, the overflowing energy that comes from the guts of the four musicians involved body and soul. The interplay is perfect, the brilliance of the four, whose characteristics are different and even distant, ensures direct and spontaneous music.

Irresistibly drawn to free and changing musical processes, Francesco Bearzatti spent his childhood in the province of Friuli. With peers he shared early musical loves, true rocker listening: Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, then came the punk of the Ramones, Sex Pistols and all the rest. He graduated in clarinet from the Udine Conservatory of Music and deepened his studies in New York, where he also got to meet George Coleman. He has recorded many records as a sideman and several as a leader. (Among the most recent: “Virus” and “Hope” with the Bizart Trio, “Stolen Days” with the Sax Pistols, “Kaleido” with Gianluca Petrella, and “Etait de fait” with Aldo Romano).