Pescara Jazz Festival 2019
Pescara Jazz Festival 2019
1 International Jazz Festival
Event born in 1969, the Pescara Jazz Festival 2019 was the first Italian summer festival dedicated to jazz, becoming, at the time, the leader of a series of initiatives throughout the national territory and is one of the most important jazz in Europe.
An opportunity for a meeting with some of the most famous American and European musicians we saw in the Jazz Festival organized in Pescara. It will be a very happy meeting for those who already know Afro-American music; it will perhaps be a surprising encounter for those of this music
All the biggest names in jazz: the concert crowd had the pleasure of listening to big names – among many others – like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Woody Herman, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Wayne Shorter, Stan Getz, Dizzie Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny. Furthermore, over the years, the festival has opened its doors to anchor and musical genres and to jazz, in an attempt to explore sounds of great appeal but also of great quality in the concerts of Keith Jarret, Paco de Lucía, Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Caetano Veloso, James Taylor, Astor Piazzolla, Gary Burton.
Pescara Jazz Festival 2019
One of the most important stages in Europe, Pescara Jazz will inaugurate its fiftieth anniversary on Monday 8 July with a program that includes fifteen consecutive concerts until 22, plus a queue of three dates: 24 July (Marlene Kuntz) and 28 July (Symphonic Queen – Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory of Pescara) and August 9, big end with Fiorella Mannoia – Personal tour 2019 (tickets 65, 55 and 46 euros). Pescara Jazz Festival 2019
Many big names in the programme: from the American singer Dee Dee Bridgewater (on July 19), to the American saxophonist Joshua Redman (July 20), to the Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona (July 17) to guitarist Robben Ford (on July 11 with the Lorenzo Tucci trio, feat. Karima Tickets 34.50, 28.75 and 18 euros). Also on the calendar is the concert Una noche por Paco (with Antonio Sanchez sexteto and the flamenco cuarteto by Chano Dominguez, on July 13. Tickets 35, 30 and 25 euros).
