Fano Jazz by the Sea | |
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Genre | Jazz |
Dates | Late July |
Location(s) | Fano, Italy |
Coordinates | 43°50′50″N13°00′54″E / 43.84722°N 13.01500°E |
Years active | 1993–present |
Website | www |
Fano Jazz by the Sea is an annual jazz festival held in Fano, Italy since 1993. [1] [2] [3] It is usually held at the end of July. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Originally born as marine side event of the festival Umbria Jazz under the name Umbria Jazz by the Sea in 1991, [11] [12] took his current name two years later. [13]
Below is the list of some of the best known artists who have performed at Fano Jazz by The Sea since its inception, listed in appearance order, with the year(s) in brackets.
Paolo Fresu is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music.
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, and producer, son of jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft.
Enrico Rava, is an Italian jazz trumpeter. He started on trombone, then changed to the trumpet after hearing Miles Davis.
David Irving McAlmont is a British vocalist, essayist and art historian. He came to prominence in the 1990s as a singer, particularly through his collaboration with Bernard Butler. In the 2010s he returned to academia, working with the University of Leicester and the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American jazz singer and actress. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Umbria Jazz Festival, directed by Carlo Pagnetta, is one of the most important jazz festivals in the world and has been held annually since 1973. Today, the summer festival runs for 10 days in Perugia, capital of Umbria. The original plan was to hold events throughout the region of Umbria and indeed the Umbria Jazz Winter Festival takes place annually in December/January in Orvieto.
Andrew Nyman is an English actor, director, writer and magician.
The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is an annual high school jazz festival and competition that takes place every May at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The festival is aimed at encouraging young musicians to play music by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians.
Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez is a Cuban drummer and percussionist. He has played alongside Latin jazz pianists such as Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Michel Camilo, Chucho Valdés, Eddie Palmieri and Hilario Durán.
The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is a non-profit music education organization founded in 1986. Before 2019, it was known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, but was then renamed after its longtime board chairman, Herbie Hancock.
Nicole Mitchell is an American jazz flautist and composer who teaches jazz at the University of Virginia. She is a former chairwoman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).
The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a jazz festival held annually in Eilat, Israel.
Anat Cohen is a New York City-based jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader from Tel Aviv, Israel.
Marina Lambrini Diamandis, known mononymously as Marina, and previously by the stage name Marina and the Diamonds, is a Welsh singer and songwriter.
Dario Chiazzolino is a guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, and award-winning artist based in New York City. He has played with Bob Mintzer, Billy Cobham, and the Yellowjackets.
Michel Bisceglia is a Belgian musician. Born Michelino Bisceglia on January 4, 1970, he descends from a family of Italian origin. Although he began playing the keyboard at the age of 6, his formal training on classical piano only started when he was already 12 years old. A few years later he switched to modern piano, and by his second year in high school he knew he wanted to dedicate his life to music.
André "Dédé" Ceccarelli is a French jazz drummer.
Tomeka Reid is an American composer, improviser, cellist, curator, and teacher.
Chiara Izzi is an Italian jazz singer/composer and musician. She sings in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese. Winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival Voice Competition in 2011, she is known for a vocal style that fuses jazz, pop and Mediterranean sounds.