DOPPIOJAZZ was born from the collaboration between Guido Michelone and Francesco Cataldo Verrina for the dissemination of jazz across various media: recordings, publications, and cultural events.
Doppio Jazz Web Magazine is a non-profit, transgenerational periodical that embraces diverse artistic sensibilities and imposes no boundaries on the concept or definition of jazz—specifically of Afro-American and improvised music. Its scope spans from pre-war classics to bebop, avant-garde to soul-jazz, funk to hard bop, European to contemporary jazz, straight-ahead to experimental, free jazz to fusion-rock, Germanic-Scandinavian sonic aesthetics to Afrobeat, and swing to world music. Periodic features explore the recording industry, sound reproduction media, as well as events and cultural trends surrounding Afro-American music at large. At the core of all our publications lie music, musicians, and discography across all eras and geographies, contextualised alongside sociocultural phenomena and historical evolutions within the musical landscape. All images are used purely for didactic, low-resolution purposes and are in no way exploited for commercial gain.
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Guido Michelone is a Professor of History of Afro-American Music at the Università Cattolica di Milano and of History of Popular Music and Jazz History at the Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria. A former contributor to publications such as «Musica Jazz», «Ritmo», and «Jazzit», he has served as a music critic for «Buscadero» and «il manifesto» for over two decades. His body of work includes ten literary titles (fiction, poetry, and theatre) and approximately forty scholarly essays on jazz, rock, folk, and film scores, including the seminal volume Il jazz-film. He is also the author of monographs on the Beatles, The Clash, Fabrizio De André, and Vasco Rossi. For Diarkos, he published Rolling Stones, Non è solo rock and roll (2022) and L’Isola di Wight (2023). Guido Michelone has authored more than thirty books devoted to jazz.
Francesco Cataldo Verrina—essayist, author, copywriter, DJ, and radio host—has been active in the media landscape for four decades. He has led professional training courses, seminars, and commercial communications workshops for private educational institutions and organisations, as well as music and radio workshops at the Faculty of Communication Sciences as an external advisor. A radio and television host and writer, he currently produces a broadcast entirely dedicated to vinyl on Primantenna FM. He has contributed to numerous journalistic outlets and authored multiple essays on music and advertising. Founder and editorial director of the web magazine Doppio Jazz, he serves as music critic for the Giornale Dell’Umbria, writes for the audiophile magazine GRooVeBack (print and digital), coordinates the Perugia “Alberto Alberti for Jazz” Award, and acts as creator and artistic director of the Jazz City Festival at the Stix Music Club in Perugia. His scholarly research examines the emergence and socio-cultural evolution of Afro-American musical traditions. He has reviewed over twenty-five thousand albums within contemporary Black musical genres and published fifteen books on jazz. Currently, he lends his expertise to Jazz History courses at the Stix Music School in Perugia. In recent years, he has brought the narratives of his books to small theatres, clubs, and art galleries, performing alongside a live ensemble.
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The Doppio Jazz Web Magazine archive is an educational, non-profit outreach service dedicated to enthusiasts, universities, scholars, students, conservatories, and music schools. All articles may be utilised with the consent of the respective contributors and authors, and have been composed to avoid unauthorized references or quotations of copyrighted material. Doppio Jazz disclaims all liability regarding materials supplied by third parties, such as record labels and press offices. Downloading content from this site is permitted strictly for personal, academic, educational, or scholarly non-profit purposes. No content may be resold, republished, or otherwise exploited for commercial purposes without the express written consent of Doppio Jazz.
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