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Castello Banfi and Jazz & Wine in Montalcino (13th edition)

From Robin Eubanks to Avion Travel, eight great concerts celebrating jazz and great wine.

Jazz & Wine in Montalcino, one of the longest-running events on the Italian music scene, was born in 1998 from the collaboration between Castello Banfi, the well-known Montalcino winery, the cultural association Jazz & Image of Rome and the Municipality of Montalcino. Also this 13th edition will propose, as usual, an extremely rich and heterogeneous programme that will range over different musical languages, with particular attention to the great female voices of Jazz.

On Wednesday 14 July, the opening concert will be held within the evocative walls of Castello Banfi and will feature a quartet of absolute international calibre: Robin Eubanks with Pippo Matino 4tet, a truly special encounter between the great American trombonist and one of Italy's most interesting electric bassists.

Castello Banfi and Jazz & Wine in Montalcino (13th edition): the programme

From 15 July, the festival will move, as tradition has it, to the splendid 14th-century fortress of Montalcino with the unmissable "piano solo" by Danilo Rea, one of the most elegant and eclectic protagonists of the jazz scene and beyond. Maria Joao duo, on 16 July, will open the triptych of female voices that will accompany the entire first weekend in Montalcino. Portuguese from Lisbon, with a peculiar and biting timbre, she boasts many years of experience alongside the greatest interpreters of international jazz. On Saturday 17 July, the splendid voice of Rossana Casale, accompanied by her quartet, will return to the Montalcino stage with the project 'The Wine Concert and Readings', absolutely in keeping with the spirit and roots of the festival. The first week will close on 18 July with Roberta Gambarini 4tet, one of the most appreciated and established female voices abroad thanks to her undeniable improvisational abilities and an interpretative technique of absolute level.

The Mirabassi-Renzi-Parker Trio will open the second week of the festival on Thursday 22 July with a concert that promises to be the perfect fusion of three great personalities of the international jazz scene. Then, on 23 July, it will be the turn of another great trio of refined elegance and great experience, the Pietropaoli-DeVito-Mazzariello with their concert-tribute to Joni Mitchell.On 24 July, the festival will close with the "Avion Travel" orchestra, who will play the best of their latest works: Danson Metropoli and Nino Rota, l'amico magico.

For the thirteenth consecutive year, two such intimate and intense pleasures, jazz music and great quality wine, are celebrating their exciting encounter in Montalcino, the symbolic town of Brunello, with increasing success.

For information contact: Pro-Loco Montalcino - tel. 0577 849331 - Email: info@prolocomontalcino.it

Marketing Banfi - tel. 0577 840 111- Email: marketing@banfi.it

Concerts: 9.45 p.m. - tickets 10.00/13.00 euro - presale c/o Proloco Montalcino