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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. [1]
Listed in alphabetical order, are some of the best known artists who have taken part in Umbria Jazz since its inception, together with the dates when the artists appeared (in brackets).
The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.
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.
Piano Jazz is a weekly one-hour radio show produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It began on June 4, 1978, and was hosted by jazz pianist Marian McPartland (1918–2013) until 2011. It is the longest-running cultural program on NPR. The show generally features a single guest, and usually consists of about an equal mixture of discussion and playing, often duets with McPartland. Initially the guests were limited to jazz pianists, but the format was later expanded to include performers on other instruments as well as other genres. The show provides an inside look at the relationships of jazz musicians, since McPartland often had long friendships with many of her guests. Piano Jazz won a Peabody Award in 1983. The show is an exclusive production of South Carolina public radio on WLTR and is offered nationally by NPR.
Weldon Dean Parks is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination.
Hein van de Geyn is a jazz double bassist, composer and band leader from the Netherlands. Van de Geyn also teaches double bass and music.
Horacio "El Negro" Hernández 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.
Alfred Kramer is a Swiss/Italian jazz drummer.
Pete Levin is an American jazz keyboardist, composer, and record producer.
Pietro Tonolo is an Italian jazz saxophone player and composer.
André "Dédé" Ceccarelli is a French jazz drummer.
This is the discography of American jazz musician Paul Motian.
Carlo Actis Dato is an Italian jazz saxophonist and composer. His Actis quartet toured worldwide in the 1990s.
This is the discography for American jazz musician Lee Konitz.
Fano Jazz by the Sea is an annual jazz festival held in Fano, Italy since 1993. It is usually held at the end of July.
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