I am very honored by the invitation of Funchal Jazz to star in the opening concert of the 2018 Festival.

The project that I will be delighted to present is a tribute to the prominent jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), a true eminence grise of bebop, whose compositions have always fascinated me for their profound beauty, an original, complex, bumpy and asymmetrical, sometimes in a meditative tone, sometimes in an interrogative way, sometimes in an aggressively harrowing way, always disconcerting and unpredictable, and sometimes unexpectedly joyful, of a pure and hard joy. Music by timeless quality that stands the challenge of time. I was equally seduced by the laconic, irregular and surgically dissonant character of Monk's pianistic phrasing, which manages to reach the very essence of the music with a single note.