As a conclusion to the Third Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, celebrating this year the Italian region of Puglia, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC present Apulian jazz pianist Kekko Fornarelli, performing his show Monologue for the first time in the United States.

Monologue is an intimate dialogue between Kekko Fornarelli and his instrument: echoes, loops and refrains are battles, skirmishes that he establishes with himself. In a continuous swing between consonance and dissonance, described with harmonies and unusual rhythmic excursions for contemporary Italian and European jazz, Fornarelli leaves his beloved experimentation on electronics to get back into the possible developments of the classical piano sound.