Adriano Mazzoletti, a journalist and music critic who was largely responsible for popularizing jazz music in Italy, has passed away. Age-wise, he was 88. Genoese by birth and Roman by adoption, Mazzoletti is hired by Rai at the end of the 1950s to write and host the specialized programs "La coppa del jazz," "L'angolo del jazz," and "Rotocalco musicale." His passion then shifts to jazz. In the 1950s, while living in Perugia, he organized the first Italian live performances. In 1955, he invited Louis Armstrong, and he founded a jazz club in Perugia, from which Umbria Jazz was born. Over the years, he worked meticulously on the creation of a valuable sound archive, for which he recovered Italian jazz recordings from the tens. And it is because of this meticulous work that he is able to publish "Forty Years of Jazz in Italy," which is the first in a lengthy series of writings on the history of jazz in the Iberian Peninsula. He was one of the authors of the Jazz's dictionary in 1960, and he was one of the main interpreters of that radio change, which would be a true revolution in Rai's musical schedules. He was the artistic director of numerous festivals and the editor-in-chief of several specialized jazz magazines, ranging from "Blue jazz" to "Jazz" and "Jazz blues and around." In these hours, he is being honored by numerous musicians.