The Concert for Jack London , is a jazz melodrama of love and boxing that sees theater and music meet and brings to the fore international musicians such as Fabrizio Bosso on trumpet and Luciano Biondini on accordion, accompanied by a narrator of caliber such as Silvio Castiglioni .
The artistic development of the project was entrusted to Silvio Castiglioni for the textual and directing part and to Fabrizio Bosso and Luciano Biondini for the music. The result is a tribute to the most translated American writer, whose death centenary was celebrated in 2016, the father of White Fang and Call of the Forest , journalist, but also gold digger, oyster fisher, vagabond, social activist and much more, and had enormous success thanks to his novels.
The show is based on his short story The Game (The game or The sport of the ring, depending on the translations), freely adapted by Silvio Castiglioni to make it congenial to the scene. A boxing story to the rhythm of the best sports reporter which he was able to be, among many other things, and at the same time a moving and heartbreaking love story. In the background the ductile and sulphurous soundtrack of Bosso's trumpet and Biondini's accordion.

AUTHOR'S NOTES
On stage with Bosso? Honored! Very honored, I thought when I received the offer to work with this giant of contemporary music, but what do I do? .... That's how I stumbled upon London, my old never-gone love. And who hasn't been in love with London? A real American at full speed. First I turned to the great epics of the Yukon, sled dogs, frost, extreme and even more famous London, then I remembered a boxing story that I have always loved and left closed in the drawer waiting for an opportunity to bring it back to light… Here it is, the opportunity. He had been an unrivaled boxing reporter when boxing was semi-underground. He also wrote about a great black boxer, when blacks were forbidden to fight - as women were forbidden to attend matches!
As happens in our story. “The game” is beautiful. But also very long. It had to be cut and cut, ruthlessly, hoping not to lose all the strong flavors that inhabit it. London, born of the same fireball that generated great jazz. Quite popular and quite rebellious, and who managed not to be locked up in any genre, even though he haunted many, just like Fabrizio Bosso, an artist capable of activating a powerful listening opening, capable of accompanying a mother with the trumpet who he whispers a lullaby to his little girl, and of course to do everything else too, and unleash a storm out of nowhere! And then Luciano Biondini, with the accordion, who welcomes us in his heartbreaking and melancholy ring.

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