Umbria Jazz 1988: Wayne Shorter and Carlos Santana in Perugia
The sonic texture woven by the two soloists did not unfold according to the conventions of traditional alternation between soloist and accompaniment,...
Umbria & Jazz
Charles Mingus and His Relationship with Italy
// di Aldo Gradimento // Charles Mingus - Umbria Jazz Festival – 1974 Dopo il suo arrivo a Perugia, in...
Keith Jarrett at Umbria Jazz: Between Canonization and Controversy
An artistic saga that began thirty-nine years earlier in the open-air squares of 1974 and concluded in 2013 at the Arena Santa Giuliana, which...
Year of grace 1987: Sting and Gil Evans at Umbria Jazz, against the backdrop of Miles Davis
The critical reception of the Perugia event by the national and international press revealed a profound hermeneutic divide, polarized between orthodoxy...
Gil Evans's Debut at Umbria Jazz: It Was the Year of Grace 1974
The critical reception that the Italian and foreign specialized press accorded to the Gil Evans Orchestra's performance on July 29...
Four times at Umbria Jazz: Miles Davis's concerts as no one has ever told them before
Davis's stage posture signaled a shift in his performative disposition; Miles played facing the audience, removed his glasses...
Umbria Jazz, July 2026: Perigeo and Beat, Sunset Boulevard takes the reins
The term Perigee denotes the minimum distance of a celestial body from Earth in its orbit, and if we metaphorically posit...
Umbria Jazz: Perigeo’s reunion rekindles a generation's dream
...following the stylistic idioms of jazz-fusion, often allowing the acoustic to dissolve into the electric, melody and groove alternated, intertwined, and...
Perigeo’s reunion at Umbria Jazz: on July 4, 2026, at the Arena Santa Giuliana in Perugia. A profile of the legendary ensemble
Beginning in the early 1970s, Perigeo found fertile ground for a music that engaged in dialogue with...
July 2026 at the Egea Store: Music, Books, and Culture in the Heart of Perugia
Book presentations, discussions with musicians, guided listening sessions, and open dialogues will offer audiences a privileged opportunity to delve into the language...
DECOJazz Nights, from June 30 to July 11 in Ponte San Giovanni-Perugia: A Confluence of Music and Gourmet Cuisine
A series of events dedicated to jazz and its manifold expressive forms, encompassing reinterpretations of tradition, contemporary improvisation, and cross-genre fusions...
The Unreleased «The Seeker (Live At Umbria Jazz Festival)» by McCoy Tyner Hits the Shelves, Recorded in Perugia in 1993 (Red Records, 2026)
The edition curated by Marco Pennisi's Red Records on 180-gram double vinyl represents an editorial achievement of paramount...
«Beyond the Sky of Buenos Aires»: Saturday, April 18, a Tribute to Astor Piazzolla at Umbrò in Perugia featuring Triosfere
Triosfere: Dario Flammini, Mauro De Federicis, and Roberto Della Vecchia delineate a sonic journey that, taking tango as its departure point...
Unpublished Interview with Michel Petrucciani: «I Never Pursued Virtuosity for Its Own Sake!»
...I want people to feel that I was never afraid of emptiness. I filled every space with vitality, not merely to...
A Portrait of Elvis Costello: The Discipline of Instability, Between Urgency and Craft
Elvis Costello will headline the closing evening of Umbria Jazz at the Arena Santa Giuliana in Perugia on July 12, offering...
Interview with Marco Pellegrini, Musician and Educator: A Pioneer in Founding Drum and Percussion Schools in Italy
// di Irma Sanders // Marco Pellegrini rappresenta una delle figure più longeve e influenti della didattica della batteria in...
Perigeo Announces Its Return to Umbria Jazz on July 4, 2026, at Arena Santa Giuliana in Perugia: A Profile of the Legendary Band
Beginning in the early 1970s, Perigeo found fertile ground for a music that engaged in dialogue with...
Unpublished Interview with McCoy Tyner: The Year 2009
Music does not exist without listeners: every note finds its purpose only when it meets an ear and a heart ready to...
An Evening with Pianist Ramberto Ciammarughi, Saturday, December 13, at the Egea Store in Perugia
Maestro Ramberto Ciammarughi, professor at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, will discuss his latest work «Intramontes» //...
Joy Garrison Enthralls the Audience at the Church of San Francesco in Città di Castello: Sold-Out Jazz-Gospel Event
The audience, deeply engaged and receptive, followed every cadence with mounting fervor, culminating in an inevitable standing ovation that sealed...
Joy Garrison in Città di Castello, Monday, December 8, 2025, within the Historic Splendor of the Church of San Francesco
The concert in Città di Castello offers an invaluable opportunity to experience a voice capable of seamlessly weaving African-American tradition with...
The Story of «Charlie Parker, the Perfect Musician» at the Egea Store in Perugia, through Francesco Cataldo Verrina’s Book
The presentation will take place on November 28 starting at 6:00 PM at the EGEA STORE, located on Via Ritorta, 5/7, in the historic center...
Shabaka Mesmerizes the Audience at the San Francesco al Prato Auditorium in Perugia
The concert on Saturday, November 8th, organized by Patrizia Marcagnani, adds another distinguished chapter to the curated events that render...
The Music and Narrative of Chet Baker Reawaken Jazz in Città di Castello (PG)
// a Cura della Redazione // In una tiepida sera di novembre, Città di Castello ha accolto un incontro musicale...
Diego Ruvidotti's «Fly Poop»: Between Flugelhorn, Trumpet, and Comic Art, the Construction of an Acoustic and Visual Universe (Barly Records, 2025)
«Fly Poop» emerges as a narrative told through sonic vignettes, where notes—understood as provisional signs—aim to evoke trajectories,...
Shabaka in Perugia on November 8th at S. Francesco al Prato: Between Evolution, Emotional Landscapes, and Inner Spaces
The concert promises to be a singular and unifying, almost holistic experience, stripped of all ceremony or rhetoric, as the Auditorium, endowed...
EGEA STORE – 2025 Events: Music, Books, and Culture in Perugia
// a Cura della Redazione // Nel singolare contesto dell'Egea Store di Perugia, il negozio di dischi più bello d'Italia,...
Ramberto Ciammarughi's «Intramontes»: A Harmonic Gateway to the Threshold of the Unknown
With his characteristic intellectual finesse, Ciammarughi weaves an expressive mosaic that shuns all formal rigidity, yearning instead for a vision...
Those Who Do Not Write Have Nothing to Write, but Above All, Nothing to Say About Jazz
Laddove, lo scrivere, come accade nel mio caso o in quello del mio amico Guido Michelone, potrebbe apparire come una...
Un viaggio nell’universo musicale di Marco Evangelista. Il suono abitato e il respiro del flicorno
Evangelista, con una modalità d'impiego sapiente, disegna ambienti, scolpendo pause e facendo affiorare pensieri. Ogni episodio discografico diviene un luogo...
Ramberto Ciammarughi: la musica che pensa e l’arte della trasformazione
Il suo pianismo si differenzia per un'attitudine ad annodare la libertà dell’improvvisazione con la precisione della scrittura, generando habitat sonori...
Umbria, terra di Santi e di Jazzisti
Nella regione dei santi e della santa inquisizione, il jazz c'è, talvolta in abbondanza, e si muove con profitto oltre...
Gabriele Mirabassi, l’arte del chiaroscuro sonoro: poetiche timbriche e geografie interiori
Mirabassi non si limita a suonare il clarinetto, piuttosto lo interroga e lo piega alle esigenze espressive di un discorso...
Da Detroit a Montreaux, passando per l’Umbria, disponibile in edizione audiofila il vinile di Roland Hanna, «Perugia – Live At Montreux 74» (ORG Music, 2025)
Hanna non si prodiga e non si strugge nel rappresentare il jazz, bensì tenta di farlo respirare attraverso una sintassi...
Roy Hargrove: il rigore dell’architetto e l’intuizione del poeta
Tromba dionisiaca e cartesiana al tempo stesso, seppe coniugare il rigore dell’architetto e l’intuizione del poeta. Non a caso, più...
Umbria Jazz Forever. Carlo Pagnotta: artigiano del jazz, custode di una passione
Umbria Jazz resta legata ad una dimensione urbanistica e paesaggistica unica, quella di Perugia e delle città umbre. Tale ambientazione...
Umbria Jazz…l’insuperata regina del pop
// a Cura della Redazione // Negli ultimi anni i maggiori incassi della kermesse Umbra sono derivati dalla presenza di...
Stregati da «Un ballo con la luna» di Gabriele Mirabassi e Simone Zanchini (Egea Records, 2024)
La maestria strumentale dei due artisti, unita ad una sensibilità che sa cogliere le sfumature più intime dell'espressione musicale, rende...
Umbria Jazz, mercoledì 13 luglio…sopraffatto dalla noia
Ci sono sempre più occasioni, in cui la direzione di Umbria Jazz riesce a farsi male da sola, intestardendosi nell'invitare...
