Music & Wine
Music and wine are two inseparable sides of the same story. A project that encourages you to enjoy wine in a new way.
Jazz and wine: an intuition that became a project
Everything began in 2002, fruit of a passion shared by José Rallo and her husband Vincenzo Favara. The idea was to combine music and wine in an experience in which every wine is paired with a track that accompanies the rhythm of the tasting and reflects and emphasises the wine’s intensity, harmony and variation. The result was the Donnafugata Music & Wine project, which has spawned three jazz albums and a series of concerts in iconic locations like the Blue Note in New York, Beijing, Shanghai, the Acropolis Museum of Athens and the Archaeology Park of Segesta.
A multisensory experience to relive whenever you want
The repertoire of jazz and Brazilian music sung by José Rallo is gathered together in three albums for those who want to recreate the same atmosphere with a glass of wine in their hand and some good music in the background. All are available on Spotify.
Donnafugata Music & Wine Live (2004)
Donnafugata Music & Wine’s first album was recorded at the Casa della Musica in Trieste, and launched with a concert at the Blue Note in Milan in October 2004.
Donnafugata Music & Wine & The Brass Group (2007)
In 2007 the second album was recorded with the participation of Eliot Zigmund and Bill Moring, two great names in the world of jazz, and with the collaboration of The Brass Group, the historic foundation of Palermo, promoter of music culture.
Donnafugata Music & Wine with The Brass Group Rebirth (2022)
Recorded in 2020, Rebirth is a record born from the desire for rebirth. An album that offers a repertoire of 11 songs and a tribute to Sicily, wine and literature.
2022: concert at the Real Teatro di Santa Cecilia in Palermo for the launch of the third album, Rebirth
2020: José Rallo and the Music & Wine Band perform at the Contessa Entellina Estate during Calici di Stelle
2019: special performance at the Acropolis Museum of Athens
2007: concert at Blue Brass Jazz in Palermo for the launch of the second album recorded with the contribution of The Brass Group and the 15 wind instruments of the Orchestra Siciliana
2005: Concert at the Blue Note in New York
