Ancona, Jazz Summer Festival 2024 is back with many musical guests

"Ancona Jazz Summer Festival" presents itself this year with a new look, more varied than usual in its artistic choices, but above all spread across different places in the city over a broader time span.

“Here, There, Everywhere” it means exactly this: a continuous movement between different styles and situations, with the aim of finding harmony between music and enchanting scenarios.

This is a precise desire to differentiate itself in the crowded programming of the period, regional or otherwise, in the jazz field, through targeted artistic choices, always of great interest, quality and originality, as in the usual tradition of the event. Space for new generations, therefore, Italian and American, but also for characters who have entered the recent history of this music, without stylistic preclusions.

Yesterday it kicked off on July 1st in the courtyard of the Mole Vanvitelliana  ea will continue today, July 2nd with two Italian exclusives, “Ancona Jazz Summer Festival”have historic jazz music festival of the Marche capital organized by Spaziomusica continuously for over half a century.

1-  It started with The Concert Tribute to the Music of Charles Mingus starring an ensemble excerpt from the Colors Jazz Orchestra enriched by the double bass player Boris Kozlov, currently director music of the designated formations to perpetuate the Mingusian repertoire, that is to say the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty and Mingus Orchestra.

2- This evening, always at 21,30, it will be the turn of the Black Art Jazz Collective sextet made up of some of the greatest exponents of American jazz today, exemplary in the continuation of the jazz language developed from the 60s onwards.

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Following, in the new and extraordinary setting of the Roman Amphitheatre , the Summer Festival program will have its own strengths in the presence of leading exponents in the Italian music scene:
the pianist's quartet and singer Sergio Cammariere. enlarged to the sublime cello of Giovanna Famulari, the singer's group Rossana Casale (19/07), the who will present the new album “Almost Blue” and the duo of the great trumpeter Paolo Fresu with Rita Marcotulli on the piano . all destined for the Roman Amphitheatre.

Other evenings of great interest will concern 18/07, a space open to Polish jazz, in memory of liberation of Ancona, with the presence of pianist Silvia Manco in a program that starts from the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska (Nobel 1996) “Ella in Heaven”, and all-female quartet ONE, with musicians from Poland, Ukraine and Italy in the emerging figure of national jazz Francesca Remigi; and the 22/07 at Moroder, with the only Italian concert of the great singer Janis Siegel, founder of legendary vocal quartet “Manhattan Transfer”, in a program that will combine jazz and cuisine following a path of unpredictable public involvement.

The stages in Piazza del Papa (11/07) and internal courtyard of Marina Dorica (13/07) host Big Bands from US universities of Utah and Illinois thanks to the collaboration of the Piazza del Papa merchant network and Marina Dorica.

The month of August includes various events, the first in the Conero theater in Sirolo, will see the  Colors Jazz Orchestra  (10/08) this time with a full band which, through the direction and splendid arrangements of Massimo Morganti, will present a program dedicated to the great tenor players in the history of jazz, from Coleman Hawkins to Sonny Rollins, from John Coltrane to Bob Berg through their masterpieces re-explored by Daniele Comoglio, brilliant and versatile saxophonist, at ease in different contexts and also open to pop and rock.

This event is the result of collaboration with the Le Muse di Ostra Vetere Association of Maestro Federico Mondelci.

Come back, on Moroder Terrace, the mid-August event, a classic that represents the ideal closing of the circle, a concert show, entrusted to legendary guitarist Lino Patruno who, in his usual “Jazz Show”, on 15/08 will offer the right homage to the jazz of New Orleans and Chicago thanks to the knowledge depth of those styles that were so important in the 20s and onwards, having played alongside historical and representative figures of that period.

Fans, and not only, they will therefore be able to appreciate a vast sound spectrum, from duo to large orchestra, passing through sensations and emotions typical of a cultural moment that relies, today more than ever, in the heterogeneity and influences from everywhere.

Also this edition of the Summer Festival 2024 è made possible thanks to the historical support of the Municipality of Ancona – Departments of Culture and Major Events -, of the Marche Region, from the MIC Ministry of Culture and the Conero Park Authority, to promote green events, and to the collaboration of the Polish Consulate in Ancona, the Italian-Polish Association of Marche and the Polish Institute in Rome.

There is no lack of private support such as the Moroder Estate and the Grand Hotel Palace. The technical aspects are handled by Rossini Pianoforti, Principi Strumenti Musicali, ENT-Entertainment.

Ancona Jazz thanks the Zaffiro Group and other patrons including Bufarini Srl and Campo Verde for their contribution pursuant to the Art Bonus.

Spaziomusica is part of the EJN Europe Jazz Network circuits, I-Jazz, MJN Marche Jazz Network and adheres to the CMS-Consorzio Marche Spettacolo and, from 2021, also by JTTG Jazz Takes the Green, which puts 20 of the most important Italian jazz festivals online.