Pescara Jazz

Pescara Jazz is an annual held in July -find international jazz festival in the Italian port city of Pescara.

Venue is the Teatro monument Gabriele D'Annunzio in the park Pineta Dannunziana and the Jazz Village in the district of Aurum ( in a former liquor factory).

The festival - the first of the summer Festival of Jazz in Italy - presented already in the Year of foundation 1969 international jazz musicians like Bill Evans Trio, which Philly Joe Jones Quintet, Barney Kessel, Lucky Thompson, Albert Nicholas, Jean -Luc Ponty and the Big Band of Maynard Ferguson. In the second 1970 Clark Terry, Shelly Manne, Buddy Tate, Teddy Wilson and Duke Ellington Orchestra came. Founder was Lucio Fumo and the tourist board ( from 1982 Duck Manifestazioni Pescaresi with the artistic director Lucio Fumo ).

Since then, the festival was held continuously up to a gap of four years from 1977 to 1980. In addition to the Mentioned included performances by Miles Davis ( 1986), Ella Fitzgerald ( 1971), Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Woody Herman, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Natalie Cole, Wynton Marsalis, Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon, Pat Metheny, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett on and off the Jazz Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Burt Bacharach, Astor Piazzolla, Caetano Veloso and Paco de Lucía.

At the festival in 2012 included performances by Chick Corea, Stefano Bollani on, Roberta Gambarini, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Al Di Meola, Joe Lovano with Dave Douglas, Enrico Rava and Wayne Shorter.

2013 Bireli Lagrene occurred, Paolo Fresu, Trilok Gurtu, Omar Sosa, Tuck & Patti, Mike Stern, Dee Dee Bridgewater with Ramsey Lewis, The Cookers, Ronnie Cuber and Simona Molinari.