The Peperoncino Jazz Festival returns to New York with one of the stages of its “New York Session”, the American segment of the festival born in Calabria and built over the years as a bridge between the Italian and international jazz scene. The second event in the Big Apple is scheduled on Tuesday 26 May 2026, at 6 pm, at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, with the singer, pianist, author and arranger Nicole Zuraitis and the trio led by the Italian drummer Elio Coppola.
Zuraitis is a very recognized musician in the American jazz scene. She lives and works in New York, has been nominated for six Grammy Awards, the most important international recognition in the world of music, and has won two. In 2024 his album “How Love Begins”, produced along with Christian McBride and composed entirely of original tracks, won the Grammy for the best jazz vocal album. He collaborated with musicians such as David Cook, Gilad Hekselman, Veronica Swift, Benny Benack, Cyrille Aimée, Antonio Sanchez, Dave Stryker, Omar Hakim, Rachel Z and Bernard Purdie. In 2021 he also won the gold medal at the American Traditions Vocal Competition, one of the most important competitions in the United States for singers working on different repertoires of American tradition.
For the New York concert Zuraitis will be accompanied by Idan Morim on guitar, Sam Weber on bass and Elio Coppola on drums. Coppola’s presence gives the concert a clear direction: it’s not only an invitation to a very award-winning American singer, but a meeting between a musician who grew up in New York’s jazz and an Italian project that has long sought to bring their festival off national borders. There is also a biographical detail: Zuraitis has Italian origins, and on this occasion he will perform in a frame designed precisely to make dialogue Italian and American musicians. His new concept album, “The Devil I Knew”, produced by Larry Klein, will be released worldwide on July 17.
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