Agorà

Agorà is an Italian jazz-rock group formed in 1974 in the province of Ancona, in the Marche, by keyboardist Roberto Bacchiocchi, saxophonist Ovidio Urbani, guitarist Renato Gasparini, bassist Paolo Colafrancesco and drummer Mauro Mencaroni. The band rehearsed in a disused church in Serra San Quirico and became known through its set at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 7 July 1975. The Montreux performance was released by Atlantic as the group's first album, Live in Montreux (1975), and Atlantic also issued the studio follow-up Agorà 2. The group later recorded the album Ichinen.