Back to What's onA concert of Jazz music where Italy meets Malta, featuring renowned Italian saxophonist Jossy Botte playing alongside the Angela Vella Zarb Quartet. The repertoire includes jazz standards and contemporary compositions.
Jossy Botte is an Italian saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger, now considered one of the most original voices in Italian jazz. As a performer, he has appeared on the stages of major international festivals and clubs: from the Bergamo Jazz Festival to the Jaffa Jazz Festival in Tel Aviv, from the Piacenza Jazz Festival to the Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival in Rome, as well as the Berklee Performance Center in Boston and the Grolsch International Jazz Festival in the Netherlands.
Angela Vella Zarb has been singing for over 15 years, with bands such as Swing Nuages, The Honeymakers, and the Franco-Maltese collaboration Blue Tangerine. She has performed multiple times at the Malta Jazz Festival, and internationally in Sweden, Paris, Italy, Vienna and Beijing. In 2022 she released her debut album as a soloist, titled Funny Face. For this concert she is accompanied by Karl Galea on guitar, Oliver Degabriele on double bass and Joe Camilleri on drums.
