By George De Stefano

"Everybody here speaks Italian, right?" Francesco Cafiso asked at the start of his June 9 concert at the Italian Institute of Culture in Manhattan. When no one contradicted him, the 27-year-old saxophonist from Vittoria, Sicily joked that he "spoke Italian very well."

And then, whenever he addressed the audience during his thrilling, ninety-minute performance, he spoke only in English. Puckish humor aside, Cafiso's linguistic choice made sense: he was appearing in New York, albeit in an Italian setting. More to the point, as a musician, he fluently speaks a language born in America ― post-bebop modern jazz.

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Fonte: La Voce di New York