La Spezia, the 56th edition of the “INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF SPEZIA” returns with many names from the international music scene
La Spezia, the 56th edition of the “INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF SPEZIA” returns. After the great success of the last edition, the 56th edition of the INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF LA SPEZIA will be held from 24 to 30 July in La Spezia, the most important jazz festival in Liguria as well as the oldest Italian music festival dedicated to the genre.
«We are ready for the 56th edition of the International Jazz Festival, the longest running event in Italy dedicated to this musical genre. – declares Pierluigi Peracchini, Mayor of La Spezia – This year too we will have big names of national and international importance who will certainly know how to involve the public with shows of great importance. Russell Crowe, Goran Bregovic, Mike Stern and many others will perform in our city which, year after year, increasingly becomes a point of reference for jazz enthusiasts and beyond.”
In the 2024 edition of the festival, which takes place under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Cimino, music remains the absolute protagonist of the seven days. The event, now a fixed event for thousands of jazz music enthusiasts from all over Italy, offers a stellar program with internationally renowned artists ready to excite with unique and unforgettable performances.
«I have always worked to present a program every year capable of offering the best experiences of improvised music, drawing inspiration from the movements and energies of African-American culture – explains Lorenzo Cimino, the artistic director – in this edition, I have maintained a strong bond with tradition, but wanting to intercept all the new musical trends, exploring the artistic evolutions that define our time”
Once again, the evocative historic center of La Spezia will be the setting for the International Jazz Festival. For a week the Ligurian city will light up with hugely popular concerts which will be held, as usual, in the scenic Piazza Europa starting from 9.30pm.
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The complete program of events is online: https://www.laspeziajazzfestival.it/
To inaugurate this edition of the event, on July 24th at 9.30 pm, there will be a concert by G. Bregovic and The Wedding & Funeral Band. The most famous Balkan musician and composer in the world will be supported by his Wedding and Funeral Band, capable of succeeding in the impossible mission of blending the harmonies of Bulgarian vocality.
(admission fee – Starting from €36.70).
Thursday 25 July, at 9.30 pm, it will be the turn of the Mike Stern Randy Brecker Band. A new adventure for Stern, who presents a new quartet in the name of himself and the great trumpeter Randy Breker. Mike is one of the most respected electric guitarists of his generation and Randy has helped shape the sound of jazz and R&B for four decades.
(admission fee – Starting from €24.20).
Irene Grandi’s concert “Io in Blues” is eagerly awaited on Saturday 27 July at 9.30pm. An exciting and engaging event, composed of international and Italian songs ranging from the sixties to the nineties, without forgetting Irene’s great successes to be rediscovered in a rock-blues arrangement.
(admission fee – Starting from €24.20).
On Sunday 28 July at 9.30 pm, again in Piazza Europa, Dado Moroni, Eddie Gomez and Joe La Barbera will bring the show “Kind of Bill” – Homage to Bill Evans to the stage. Bill Evans left us 44 years ago, but his music lives on for both those who play jazz and those who listen to him. There is no modern pianist who does not refer to his musical legacy, especially when it comes to playing in a trio.
(paid entry – Starting from €19.20).
Paolo Fresu and Uri Caine will inaugurate the evening of July 29th by performing as a duo at 9.30 pm. The Fresu-Caine duo is the story of the very fortunate meeting between two great personalities of modern jazz. Together, they face the game with surprising simplicity, perfectly managing to convey the feeling that drives this music.
(admission fee – Starting from €24.20).
The grand finale of the Festival will be held on Tuesday 30 July.
Starting at 9.30 pm, Russell Crowe & The Gentlemen Barbers will perform live. The New Zealand actor, Oscar winner in 2001 as best leading actor for “Gladiator”, participated as a guest on the third evening of the most recent Sanremo Festival as a musician and singer. In fact, before becoming an actor he took his first artistic steps in music.
(admission fee – Starting from €36.70).
