Umbria Jazz 40 Anniversary - Small & Big Bands (2013) [DVD9 PAL]

Umbria Jazz 40 Anniversary - Small & Big Bands (2013) [DVD9 PAL]


Release Date: 05/18/2013
Label: La Repubblica L'Expresso
Umbria Jazz . Sei DVD inediti con le grandi performance del festival presentate da artisti d'eccezione.


FOR those who want to remember the golden years of the most crowded festival in Italy, Repubblica and Espresso offer the Umbria Jazz 40th Anniversary series six DVDs with substantial excerpts from the epic performances of the festival.
The names of the greatest of jazz stand out in an unpublished collection: Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, Carla Bley, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Enrico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Erykah Badu, Paolo Fresu, BB King and many others who made it one of the most loved festivals in the world.


The beginnings
Presents: Stefano Bollani
It had to be simply a festival for fans, with some territorial promotion ambitions. Umbria jazz came on immediately and (...)

Italians
Presents: Paolo Fresu
Italian jazz musicians have an historical debt with Umbria jazz. A relationship that was born with the festival and has grown over the years, hand in hand with

teachers
from July 19th
Teachers
Presented by: Stefano Bollani, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Danilo Rea, Enrico Rava, Roberto Gatto
The masters of jazz have left many indelible marks, and often repeated, in the history of Umbria Jazz. The memorable and many appearances of Miles Davis with (...)

BigBands
from July 26
Small & Big Bands
Presents: Roberto Gatto
The orchestras have been a sort of backbone of Umbria jazz history. From the legendary and overwhelming sessions of that colorful musical assembly that was the Gil Evans Orchestra (...)

the singers
from August 2nd
The singers
Presents: Danilo Rea
The divine Sassy, ??Sarah Vaughan is one of the great stars who have spanned the forty years of Umbria jazz. And with her here is another lady of the voice like Carmen McRae, protagonist (...)

The singers
from August 9
The singers
Presents: Enrico Rava
The voices have an undoubted popular appeal and, often, have pushed Umrbia jazz to look up towards wider horizons. Starting with Brazilian music with the repeated and fantastic shows of (...)