Jazz & Wine in Montalcino

With its eighteenth edition, the Jazz & Wine festival in Montalcino (14th to 19th July) is confirmed as one of the long–lived and best–known festivals in the Italian music scene. Created with the collaboration of Banfi, the well–known wine company of Montalcino, the Rubei family of Alexanderplatz in Rome and the Municipality of Montalcino, the festival presents also this year a program of absolute artistic level, with Italian and international artists of undisputed reputation.

As usual, the opening concert – on Tuesday, July 14th – will take place within the historic walls of Castello Banfi, with the Latin jazz of Sin Saudade Duo (Mangalavite & Zamora feat: Israel Varela). From July 15th the festival will move to the fourteenth–century Montalcino Fortress with a big band – 20 items in all – expressly created to celebrate the great combination that has made this festival famous throughout the world: the Wine & Jazz Orchestra of Mario Corvini (featuring Jesse Davis). To follow, on Thursday, July 16th, there will be an unmissable jazz manouche concert, where the acclaimed guitarist Angelo Debarre, will perform a tribute to Django Reinhardt accompanied by Miraldo Vidal, Simone Magliozzi and Paride Furzi.

To get on the stage of Jazz & Wine, on Friday, July 17th, there will be the musician, composer and performer of rare and refined expressive intensity Sergio Cammariere, accompanied by Luca Bulgarelli, Bruno Marcozzi and Amedeo Ariano, special guest the trumpet of Fabrizio Bosso. On Saturday, July 18th, it is the turn of The Cookers (Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, David Donald Harrison, George Cables, Cecil Mc Bee, Billy Hart), an extraordinary group that brings together some of the most celebrated and iconic jazz musicians of our days. To conclude this great edition of the festival, on Sunday, July 19th, the Paixao Trio, feat: Maurizio Giammarco, in a concert that will range between the rhythms of jazz and Brazilian music.

For the eighteenth consecutive year two very intimate and intense pleasures, jazz music and high quality wine, celebrate the growing success with their exciting encounter in the symbolic city of Brunello: Montalcino. The partnership between the Jazz & Wine festival in Montalcino, Jazz & Wine of Peace Festival in Cormòns, Zola Jazz & Wine and il Vino & Jazz Marche. Tuscany, therefore, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia and Marche, united in the name of quality music and good wine. A comparison must, with different territorial and productive realities, but united by the same passion for the great jazz.

The festival will also be a tribute to the memory of the late Giampiero Rubei, creator, heart and soul of Jazz & Wine. In a sign of continuity, the artistic direction is entrusted to his son, Paolo Rubei.