Edition number 40 for Ravenna Jazz, an important milestone that will be celebrated May 3 to 12 with a full ten days of live music and seminars: a luxurious redesign of the program of the festival, which will turn from its traditional programming focused in three days to a formula extended in time and in diverse places.
The wealth of the new program will involve in fact the main theaters in the city (the Alighieri and the Rasi) and the Hall Square and the Rebirth Cisim of Lido Adriano, who will host "Ravenna 40th Jazz Club", or alternative listening more casual compared to the evenings in the theater. In addition, a significant number of rooms in the city center will host the daily afternoon concerts 'Aperitifs': Ten guitarists engaged in as many performances only.
The rest I will say the great artists invited to participate in this important edition of Ravenna Jazz, whose long history, which began in 1974 and continued without interruption until today, making it one of the oldest and most celebrated festival in Italy: from Chucho Valdés , whose Afro-Cuban Messengers will be given the inaugural concert (May 4) to Pharoah Sanders (5), Franco Ambrosetti Uri Caine and Furio Di Castri (6), Mattia Cigalini (7), Gianluca Petrella and Alien Dee (8), Rosario Giuliani (9), Gino Paoli and Danilo Rea (10), Paolo Fresu and martux_m in a new version of "Microlezioni of Jazz" (11) and Joshua Redman, whose quartet will protagonist of the final concert of the festival (12).
Ravenna is organized by Jazz Jazz Network in collaboration with the Departments of Culture of the Municipality of Ravenna and the Emilia-Romagna region, with the support of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
Saturday, May 4 (Teatro Alighieri, 21 hours), will be the colorful Caribbean rhythms of Chucho Valdés and his Afro-Cuban Messengers to kick off the theater program of the fortieth edition of Ravenna Jazz. The group of seven elements led by the most famous of Cuban pianists is a fireball rhythmic, one of the most brilliant formations of the Latin jazz today.
Impetuous protagonist of the history of jazz of the sixties with John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders is still a saxophonist of dazzling intensity of expression. This giant of the tenor sax will be the star of the concert on Sunday, 5 (Teatro Alighieri, 21 hours), at the head of a quartet whose show takes its title from one of the most famous compositions of Sanders: "The Creator Has a Master Plan".
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