The eighteenth edition of the festival kicks off with "Waiting for Jazz & Wine", on stage at Castello Banfi on 8 July. Once again this year, the festival will feature artists of the highest level: from the manouche jazz of Angelo Debarre, to the extraordinary The Cookers, and the eagerly awaited return of Sergio Cammariere, for the occasion accompanied by Fabrizio Bosso's trumpet.
With its 18th edition, the Jazz & Wine in Montalcino festival (14 - 19 July) confirms itself as one of the longest-running and best-known festivals on the Italian music scene. Born out of the collaboration between Banfi, the well-known Montalcino winery, the Rubei family of the Alexanderplatz in Rome and the Municipality of Montalcino, the festival offers once again this year a programme of absolute artistic level, with Italian and international artists of undisputed fame.
Jazz & Wine in Montalcino
The festival offers a programme of the highest level, with Italian and international artists of undisputed world renown who will be preceded, as usual, by the eagerly awaited 'Waiting for Jazz & Wine' evening on 8 July, within the historic walls of Castello Banfi, with the Radio Trio (Enrico Zanisi - piano, Marco Siniscalco - bass, Emanuele Smimmo - drums), a group inspired by the fun that every radio station offers its listeners, in a continuous and selected mix of songs that often have only the stylistic background in common.
The exhibition, which in this edition sees the partnership of Vodafone Italy, will start on Tuesday 14 July with the inaugural concert at Castello Banfi, featuring Latin jazz by theSin Saudade Duo (Mangalavite & Zamora feat: Israel Varela). From 15 July, the festival will move to the 14th-century Montalcino Fortress with a big band - 20 elements in all - expressly created to celebrate the great combination that has made this festival famous throughout the world: Mario Corvini's Jazz & Wine Orchestra (featuring Jesse Davis). It continues on Thursday 16 July with an unmissable jazz manouche concert, in which the acclaimed guitarist Angelo Debarre, will perform a tribute to Django Reinhardt accompanied by Miraldo Vidal, Simone Magliozzi and Paride Furzi.
Taking the stage at Jazz & Wine on Friday 17 July will be the musician, composer and performer of rare and refined expressive intensity Sergio Cammariereaccompanied by Luca Bulgarelli, Bruno Marcozzi and Amedeo Ariano, special guest the trumpet of Fabrizio Bosso. Saturday 18 July 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 instrumentalists in jazz today. Closing this great edition of the festival, on Sunday 19 July, will be the Paixao Trio, feat: Maurizio Giammarco, in a concert that will range between the rhythms of jazz and Brazilian music.
The festival will also be a tribute to the memory of the late Giampiero Rubei, the creator, soul and heart of Jazz & Wine. In the name of continuity, the Artistic Direction is entrusted to his son, Paolo Rubei.
