Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

Elective Lines, the jazz and electronics duo of Francesco Saguto and Vincenzo Bardaro, plays with double bassist Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55 (00154 Rome), on Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 18:00, with the concert drawn from the self-produced album Unveil. The venue lists the park of Casa del Jazz as the space and presents the evening under the Young Lions label. The ticket is a single price of 15 euros: it's sold on the presale network authorized by the organization, reachable from the official Casa del Jazz website, or at the villa's box office. You get there by metro B, Piramide stop, and then a quarter of an hour on foot, or by bus 714, Colombo/Marco Polo stop. For information the venue answers at 06 80241281.

A guitar that runs through a laptop, drums played by a musician with 20 years of jazz behind him, an acoustic double bass to hold the two worlds together. Elective Lines is a small project, born in 2023, and that's exactly why it's interesting: three musicians from the Roman scene who aren't looking for the classic jazz trio formula but for a meeting point between song, improvisation and digital sound. At 15 euros, on a Sunday afternoon, it's the cheapest way to hear what's moving in Roman jazz away from the big names.

Elective Lines at Casa del Jazz: date, time, price

Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella plays Casa del Jazz on Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 18:00, a single date, with a single ticket at 15 euros, as the venue's official page states.

Date and time

There's only one date: Sunday, November 15, at 18:00. It's an afternoon concert time, designed for those who work on Monday and those who want to have dinner afterward without staying out late. The running time isn't published.

The ticket

The ticket is a single price, 15 euros, with no sections. It's bought online from the buy button on the event page of the Casa del Jazz website, which links to the authorized presale network, or at the villa's box office on show days.

Young Lions

In the venue's calendar the concert is marked with the label Young Lions, the line Casa del Jazz dedicates to musicians of the new generations and to growing projects. It isn't part of the Roma Jazz Festival, even though it falls in the same month.

The lineup

Francesco Saguto on guitar and laptop, Vincenzo Bardaro on drums, Andrea Colella on double bass. The duo was born as a guitar and drums pair. Colella's double bass, which the venue calls a special appearance, turns the evening into a trio.

Unveil: what you'll hear

Elective Lines' concert at Casa del Jazz is drawn from Unveil, their self-produced album: original compositions, synthetic incursions and a new take on Jaco Pastorius's Three Views of a Secret.

Songwriting and electronics

The venue describes the project as an attempt to break down the borders between songwriting and electronic music, with the warm vibrations of acoustic sound merging with digital architectures. Saguto himself, on his website, presents the duo as the fusion of seemingly distant worlds: songwriting and electronics, acoustic and digital sound.

The laptop on stage

The laptop, next to the guitar, isn't an accessory: it's used to transform the sound in real time, to build layers, to stack textures. Those expecting a traditional jazz guitar trio will find something different, closer to the sounds of the experimental electronic music Saguto has explored for years.

Three Views of a Secret

The only non-original piece announced is Three Views of a Secret by Jaco Pastorius, the Weather Report bassist, one of the best-loved melodies of electric jazz. The venue speaks of a new reinterpretation. With a double bass in place of Pastorius's electric bass, the choice has the flavor of a declared challenge.

Elective affinities

The duo's name recalls the elective affinities, and a track with this title appears in the live recordings published by the group. The idea is clear: three musicians who choose each other by affinity, not by belonging to a genre.

Elective Lines: the history of the project

Elective Lines was officially born in April 2023, when Francesco Saguto announced on his website the new project with Vincenzo Bardaro and its first release, Unveil.

Two longtime friends

Saguto and Bardaro have played together since long before 2023. Saguto's first record, Directions from 2010, was recorded with the Respire trio together with Luca Bulgarelli and Bardaro himself, and in 2015 the two recorded together again, with Andrea Avena, the live-in-studio album La Cattedrale. Elective Lines is the latest step of a partnership more than 15 years long.

The live debut with Colella

On July 28, 2023 the group played Unveil at the Felix Drummers Fest in Felitto, in the province of Salerno, a festival dedicated to drums, in a jam session set in the village castle. Andrea Colella was already on stage on double bass back then: the lineup coming to Casa del Jazz is the same as at that debut.

An independent project

Unveil is a self-produced album. For a project of this kind the live concert is the decisive moment: that's where the combination of acoustic and digital is tested in front of an audience, and a hall like Casa del Jazz's is the right proving ground.

Francesco Saguto, guitar and laptop

Francesco Saguto, born in 1980, is a guitarist and composer who lives in Rome and has built a personal language mixing rock, jazz, pop and noise, with particular attention to rhythm, guitar technique and the use of effects.

His training

He graduated from the Università della Musica in Rome in 2005. He studied improvisation with pianist Greg Burk and attended seminars with Scott Henderson, Stanley Jordan, Otmaro Ruiz and Mike Stern, four guitarists and keyboardists very different from one another, from jazz rock to tapping technique. In 2006 he came second in the Barga Jazz international arranging and composition competition.

The festivals

He played the Terni Jazz Festival in 2004 and, in 2005, the Ronciglione Jazz Festival and Casa del Jazz: November 15, for him, is a return to the villa at Porta Ardeatina 21 years later. Then came Quadrato Nomade at the Scuderie Aldobrandini in 2011, Ciascuno a suo jazz in 2012, La storia del jazz, JES and Mura di suono in 2013. In 2007 and 2008 he was a guest at Teatro Parioli on Maurizio Costanzo's TV show Stella.

Electronics and noise

Saguto's experimental side runs through his work with sound and visual artist Franz Rosati. In 2012 Gridshape came out on the electronic music label Nephogram, a crossing of distorted sounds and silences built on the interaction between guitars and digital electronics. In 2013 the two recorded Psed Hriag for the compilation The New Noise curated by Fabrizio Garau and took Gridshape to London. That's where the guitar-with-laptop you'll hear at Casa del Jazz was born.

Records and collaborations

Besides Directions, Gridshape and Psed Hriag, in 2011 Saguto recorded Antonio De Lillis featuring Greg Burk. As a sideman he appears, among other things, on a Fabio Frizzi recording devoted to the music for Lucio Fulci's Zombi. He has played with Eugenio Colombo, David Boato, Luca Bulgarelli, Roberto Tarenzi, Marco Bardoscia, Domenico Sanna and many others, and has worked in theater with actor Tiziano Turci. He lived in Toronto between 2015 and 2016. He teaches guitar at several Roman schools, including the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Villa Gordiani.

Vincenzo Bardaro, drums

Vincenzo Bardaro was born in 1977 in Camerota, in the province of Salerno, into a family of musicians, and is a drummer with classical training and a long career in Italian jazz.

From conservatory to jazz

He was already playing in public at six. At 13 he entered the Salerno conservatory, where in 1999 he graduated in percussion with Maria Grazia Pescetelli. After moving to Naples, he studied drums privately and attended seminars by Steve Smith, Danny Gottlieb, Roberto Gatto and Nasheet Waits. In 2001 he attended the Siena Jazz courses with Ettore Fioravanti and Mauro Negri.

The orchestras

In classical music he has worked with permanent and chamber orchestras, including those of Teatro Verdi in Salerno and Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. It's a detail you can hear: drummers trained as orchestral percussionists usually have unusual control of sound and dynamics.

The groups

In 2000 he recorded Dos Vias by Neapolitan guitarist Gianni Guarracino, with guests Frank Gambale and Paco de Lucía. Since 2003 he has played in saxophonist Gaetano Partipilo's quintet Urban Society, with which he has been on air on Radio3 Suite and played alongside Dave Binney, Gabin Dabiré and Greg Osby. Since 2003 he has also been the drummer for Brazilian singer Rosalia De Souza, with whom he has toured European festivals and played in Spain with Roberto Menescal, one of the fathers of bossa nova.

Records and Top Jazz

In 2004 he recorded Partipilo's Basic and Mirko Signorile's Synerjazz Trio album The Magic Circle, both for Soul Note, as well as records by Cabaret Noir and Talea, between Balkan music and jazz. In 2005 he was voted in the best new talent category of the Top Jazz poll by the magazine Musica Jazz. He has also played with Fabrizio Bosso, Gianluca Petrella, Pietro Condorelli, Aldo Vigorito, Roberto Ottaviano and Nicola Stilo.

Andrea Colella, double bass

Andrea Colella is a double bassist born in Lecce, active on the Roman jazz scene, with complete classical training and a career spanning jazz, world music, music theater and singer-songwriter music.

From Lecce to Rome

He started very young on electric bass, and after moving to Rome he switched to double bass. In 2009 he graduated in classical double bass with Luca Cola at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone, then completed the two-year jazz double bass program at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, with top marks and honors.

Many different worlds

He has played world music with Pape Kanouté, Oumou Sangaré, Loire Cotler and Glen Velez, classical music with the World Youth Chamber Orchestra and the Academia Jovem Concertante, music theater with Moni Ovadia, Andrea Rivera and Paolo Jannacci, and song with Peppe Servillo, Lucio Dalla, Teresa De Sio, Loredana Bertè and Alessio Bonomo.

Jazz

In jazz he has played and recorded with Maurizio Giammarco, Javier Girotto, Giovanni Amato, Achille Succi, Franco Piana, Tim Ries, Raffaele Casarano, Gregory Hutchinson, Antonello Salis, Gabriele Mirabassi, Michele Rabbia, Gabriele Coen, Alessandro Gwis, Ettore Fioravanti and Greg Burk, the same pianist Saguto studied with. He is co-leader of No Trio For Cats, with Andrea Saffirio on piano and Matteo Bultrini on drums, and of the Role Play Trio.

Concerts abroad

He has played festivals and clubs in Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Tunisia, Switzerland, Albania and Romania. He teaches double bass and ensemble music at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome. In the Elective Lines trio he's the acoustic element par excellence: the wood of the double bass against the circuits of the laptop.

Casa del Jazz, the concert venue

Casa del Jazz is at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, between the Aventine and Via Cristoforo Colombo, and is run by Fondazione Musica per Roma, the same foundation as Auditorium Parco della Musica. The full story is on the page about Casa del Jazz in Rome.

A villa returned to the city

The center was born from the confiscation of the villa of Enrico Nicoletti, a member of the Banda della Magliana, later assigned to the City of Rome. The Casa del Jazz project was promoted by mayor Walter Veltroni. At the entrance a plaque with the names of victims of the Mafia, made with Don Luigi Ciotti's association Libera, recalls the meaning of that restitution.

The villa and the park

The villa, Villa Osio, covers 2,500 square meters and is surrounded by a park of more than 25,000 square meters, open every day from dawn to dusk. The complex has three buildings: the main one houses the concert hall, equipped to record concerts and turn them into records, the second rehearsal rooms, studios and lodging for musicians, the third a restaurant.

The concert space

For this date the venue lists the park of Casa del Jazz as the space. In mid-November, at 18:00, it has been dark for an hour and the temperature drops: a warm layer is needed in any case, if only for the walk between the gate and the villa.

How to get to Casa del Jazz for Elective Lines

Casa del Jazz can be reached from the center by metro B to Piramide and then on foot, or by bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop. There's a parking lot next to the villa.

By metro

The stop indicated by the venue is Piramide, on line B. From the station to the villa it's just under a kilometer: a 15-minute walk along the walls, to factor in so you arrive before 18:00.

By bus

The 714 stops at Colombo/Marco Polo, a few minutes from the entrance. It's the most convenient option from Termini and EUR, and for the evening return it's the best for groups.

By car

The parking lot is next to the villa, on Via Cristoforo Colombo at the corner with Viale di Porta Ardeatina. On Sunday afternoon Via Cristoforo Colombo usually flows well.

Getting back

On Sunday public transport runs on the holiday schedule. Before going in, check the useful runs for getting home on the transport company's route planner.

Tickets, box office and accessibility

The ticket for Elective Lines at Casa del Jazz costs 15 euros, a single price for all seats, and is bought online from the venue's website or at the villa's box office.

The box office

The Casa del Jazz box office, according to the venue, is open on show days from 19:00 until 40 minutes after the start. For an 18:00 concert, buying online is the safest route.

Discounts

Discounts and tickets for people with disabilities are issued at the central box office of Auditorium Parco della Musica, where Fondazione Musica per Roma provides a 20 percent discount for people with disabilities, free entry for a companion when needed and a 50 percent discount for blind people.

Accessibility

Casa del Jazz states that it was designed for full accessibility. Wheelchair users can book a space at 06 8024 1281, active every day from 11:00 to 18:00. The reserved spaces are few: better to call a few days ahead.

The neighborhood around Casa del Jazz

Casa del Jazz is between ancient Rome and 20th-century Rome, a few hundred meters from the Baths of Caracalla and along the route of the Aurelian Walls.

Caracalla and the walls

About 600 meters away are the Baths of Caracalla, and the villa faces Viale di Porta Ardeatina, which runs along the Aurelian Walls. A Sunday in November is the right day for a visit to the baths in the early afternoon, before the concert.

Piramide and Testaccio

On the way from the metro you pass the Pyramid of Cestius, and just beyond it Testaccio begins, with its neighborhood trattorias.

Circo Massimo and Caffarella

In the opposite direction you reach the Circus Maximus, and to the south begin the lands of the Appian Way, with the Caffarella Park, to be seen in daylight.

Where to eat before or after the concert

One of the three Casa del Jazz buildings houses a restaurant, which solves dinner without moving. With an 18:00 concert, dinner naturally comes afterward: Testaccio, a few minutes away, has trattorias and pizzerias frequented more by Romans than by visitors, and on Sunday evening it's one of the liveliest areas in the city. San Saba, on the Little Aventine, is quieter. For a coffee or an aperitivo before the concert the Piramide area is the most convenient, on the way between the metro and the villa. With a group, on Sunday evening, book.

A curious fact about Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

The most beautiful curious fact about this concert is a return. In 2005 Francesco Saguto, 25 and just graduated from the Università della Musica, played at Casa del Jazz. On November 15, 2026 he returns, 21 years later, with a project that couldn't have existed then: the guitar connected to a laptop, the experimental electronics learned in the meantime with Franz Rosati, the drums of a longtime friend.

The second curious fact links the three musicians to a single name. Saguto studied improvisation with American pianist Greg Burk, Andrea Colella has played and recorded with Burk himself, and Saguto had already recorded with him on Antonio De Lillis's 2011 record. In Roman jazz, genealogies matter, and this is a precise one.

The third concerns Vincenzo Bardaro. Among the drummers whose seminars he attended is Roberto Gatto, who two weeks earlier, from October 30 to November 1, plays three nights in a row in the same villa. Those following Casa del Jazz this autumn can hear the master and, shortly after, one of the drummers who took up his lesson.

Something nobody tells you about Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

What almost nobody points out is a detail about times. The Casa del Jazz box office, according to the venue, opens at 19:00 on show days. The Elective Lines concert starts at 18:00. Those planning to buy their ticket on the spot risk finding the window closed right when they need it. Buy the ticket beforehand, online: 15 euros, no section to choose, a few seconds.

The second thing concerns the park. The venue lists the park as the concert space, but the villa's park is open to the public from dawn to dusk, and in mid-November the sun sets around 16:45. Come dressed for a late-autumn evening outdoors, and with a phone flashlight for the path: better one layer too many than one too few.

The third is a matter of expectations. A laptop on stage scares jazz purists. It shouldn't: it's an instrument like any other, and in the hands of a guitarist coming from noise and improvisation it becomes a way to extend the guitar's sound, not to replace it. Listen without prejudice.

My advice for Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

It's worth building the Sunday around the concert. Lunch in Testaccio, early afternoon at the Baths of Caracalla, a walk along the Aurelian Walls to the villa, arriving at Casa del Jazz around 17:30. The 18:00 concert closes a day spent entirely in the same area, without ever taking public transport, and leaves the evening free for an unhurried dinner.

Second piece of advice: listen first to Three Views of a Secret in Jaco Pastorius's version. It's the only non-original piece on the program, and knowing the original lets you understand how much the trio transforms it, with a double bass in place of the electric bass and electronics in place of the horns. It's the simplest way into the world of Unveil.

Third: sit near the double bass. In a trio with electronics, the risk is that the acoustic sound gets covered. Up close, the wood of Colella's instrument comes through clearly, and the dialogue between acoustic and digital, which is the point of the project, becomes evident. In jazz your position in the room matters as much as the ticket.

Another well-known fact, yet not often mentioned

It's known that Casa del Jazz was born in a villa confiscated from organized crime. Less often remembered is that from the start it was designed as a home for musicians, not just as a concert hall. The complex's second building has rehearsal rooms, recording studios and lodging for guests, and the main hall is equipped with a system that allows concerts to be recorded and turned into records. It's a structure meant to let musicians work, as well as play in front of an audience.

For a project like Elective Lines this matters. A trio with a self-produced album, mixing acoustic and electronic, needs places where the sound is cared for as in a studio. The Young Lions line, in which the venue places this concert, should be read in this light: giving space to young or independent projects in the same villa where the big names of Italian jazz play.

There's also a second little-mentioned fact: Casa del Jazz is managed by Fondazione Musica per Roma, the same foundation as Auditorium Parco della Musica. That's why discounts and tickets for people with disabilities are issued at the Auditorium's central box office, on Via Pietro de Coubertin, and not at the villa's box office.

The right photo to take at Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

The right photo, at this concert, is of the instruments before they start playing. Guitar, pedalboard, open laptop, double bass resting, drums: it's the image that tells Elective Lines better than any portrait, because it puts wood and screen in the same frame, the two worlds the trio wants to bring together. Take it with the lights still on, without flash.

During the concert the phone goes in your pocket. With electronic music the temptation to film is strong, but the sound coming out of a phone gives back nothing of what you hear live, and the lit screen bothers whoever is sitting next to you.

Outside, the photo to take is the lit villa seen from the entrance drive: in mid-November, at 17:30, it's already dark and the facade with the lights on has an intimate look. And then there's the other image, less obvious: the plaque with the names of Mafia victims at the entrance. It isn't a postcard photo, but it's the one that explains the place. Those who post it with two lines of explanation do a small service to whoever sees it.

Some important events that happened here in history

The founding event of Casa del Jazz is the confiscation of the villa of Enrico Nicoletti, a member of the Banda della Magliana, and its assignment to the City of Rome. The project promoted by mayor Walter Veltroni turned it into a center entirely devoted to jazz, with a concert hall, recording studios and lodging. The plaque at the entrance, made with Libera, Don Luigi Ciotti's association, fixes that passage in the memory of the place: a property taken from crime and given back to the city in the form of music.

The villa has an older name, Villa Osio, and a park of more than 25,000 square meters now open to all from dawn to dusk. It's along Viale di Porta Ardeatina, which follows the route of the Aurelian Walls, built in the 3rd century AD: in a few meters you go from imperial Rome to the court news of the 1980s, to the Rome of concerts.

In the villa's musical history, a small chapter also concerns the protagonists of this evening. In 2005 Francesco Saguto played here as a young guitarist, and in 2008 Roberto Gatto, one of Vincenzo Bardaro's teachers, recorded his tribute to progressive rock here. Over the years the villa has become a home for several generations of Roman musicians.

Who has passed through Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella at Casa del Jazz, November 15, 2026

The musicians of the Italian scene and many foreign guests have passed through Casa del Jazz. This same autumn 2026 the villa has hosted Roberto Gatto, with three concerts in a row between October 30 and November 1 alongside Danilo Rea, Antonello Salis, Alessandro Lanzoni and Francesco Fratini, and in November it welcomes part of the Roma Jazz Festival 2026 concerts.

Among the names Andrea Colella brings with him this evening are several the villa's audience knows: Antonello Salis, with whom Colella has played, was on the Casa del Jazz stage two weeks earlier in a duo with Gatto, and Maurizio Giammarco, Javier Girotto, Gabriele Mirabassi and Ettore Fioravanti are regulars of the Roman scene. Vincenzo Bardaro instead arrives with a story that runs through Naples, Salerno and Rosalia De Souza's European stages.

And then there's Francesco Saguto, who had already passed through Casa del Jazz in 2005, as a 25-year-old guitarist. Three musicians from three different cities, Rome, Camerota and Lecce, who meet in the same hall with a project born between a castle in the Cilento and a Roman studio. On November 15 they join the list too.

Jazz in Rome in November

November is the richest month for jazz in Rome. The Roma Jazz Festival brings concerts to Auditorium Parco della Musica and Casa del Jazz, and historic clubs like the Alexanderplatz Jazz Club have a packed calendar. In summer the same villa hosts the series Summertime at Casa del Jazz, with outdoor concerts in the park. Elective Lines, among better-known names, is the month's most experimental offering.

Mid-November in Rome

In mid-November Rome often has mild days and cool evenings, sometimes damp, and darkness comes before 17:00. For an 18:00 concert with the park listed as the space, dress in layers.

Frequently asked questions about Elective Lines at Casa del Jazz

When do Elective Lines play Casa del Jazz?

Elective Lines feat. Andrea Colella play Casa del Jazz on Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 18:00, a single date, with the concert drawn from the album Unveil. The venue lists the park of Casa del Jazz, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, as the space.

How much is the ticket for Elective Lines at Casa del Jazz?

The ticket for Elective Lines at Casa del Jazz is a single price of 15 euros. It's bought online on the presale network authorized by the organization, from the event page on the Casa del Jazz website, or at the villa's box office, which opens at 19:00 on show days.

Who are Elective Lines?

Elective Lines is an Italian jazz and electronics duo formed by Francesco Saguto on guitar and laptop and Vincenzo Bardaro on drums, born in 2023. At Casa del Jazz they play as a trio with Andrea Colella on double bass, the same musician who was at their live debut.

What music do Elective Lines play?

Elective Lines play original compositions that combine songwriting and electronic music, acoustic sound and digital sound. The concert at Casa del Jazz is drawn from the self-produced album Unveil and includes a new take on Jaco Pastorius's Three Views of a Secret.

Who is Andrea Colella?

Andrea Colella is a double bassist born in Lecce and active in Rome, with diplomas in classical double bass from Frosinone and jazz double bass from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. He has played with Maurizio Giammarco, Javier Girotto, Antonello Salis, Gabriele Mirabassi, Lucio Dalla and Moni Ovadia.

How do you get to Casa del Jazz?

Casa del Jazz, at Viale di Porta Ardeatina 55, can be reached by metro B to Piramide and then about one kilometer on foot, or by bus 714 to the Colombo/Marco Polo stop. There's a parking lot next to the villa, at the corner with Via Cristoforo Colombo.

Is Casa del Jazz wheelchair accessible?

Casa del Jazz states that it was designed for full accessibility. Wheelchair users can book a space at 06 8024 1281, every day from 11:00 to 18:00. Discounts for people with disabilities are available at the central box office of Auditorium Parco della Musica.

My final advice

15 euros, a Sunday afternoon, three musicians who know jazz from the inside and try to take it somewhere else: it's worth going without a second thought, buying the ticket online a few days ahead. It isn't the night of big names, and that's exactly why it's worth it: projects like Elective Lines are to be heard now, in a small hall, before they become something else.

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