Crossroads Jazz e Altro in Emilia Romagna is an itinerant festival that takes place throughout the Emilia Romagna region, and is one of the major European initiatives in this field. The 2025 edition takes place from 1 March to 1 August, with more than 60 concerts welcoming big and emerging artists, without any style preclusions and with a notable quota of female guests.
On the Rimini stage, together with the varied ensemble of the Italian Jazz Orchestra directed by Fabio Petretti (17 elements with a crossover instrumentation between jazz and classical music), will be Flavio Boltro and Walter Ricci, among the top artists of made-in-Italy jazz music.
The Italian Jazz Orchestra revives one of the most successful of the original productions realised over the years for the Crossroads festival: “Unforgettable”, an orchestral jazz kolossal dedicated to Nat King Cole (1919-1965), a superlative jazz musician whose success was so overwhelming that he became an artist loved far beyond the categories of musical genres. First and foremost a jazz pianist, Cole reached the pinnacle of fame when he also began to offer himself as a singer. His performances and trio recordings have made him a timeless model of American popular music.