Richard Galliano, French master, accordion virtuoso, arrives at Umbria Jazz in 2024 with the New York Tango Trio, together with Adrien Moignard on guitar and Diego Imbert on double bass. Thirty years after the release of Camera a Sud, Vinicio Capossela in a unique concert. «Playing these songs is a way of continuing to inhabit them, animated more by the feeling of gratitude than by that of nostalgia». The concert is a tribute to Sergio Piazzoli

Richard Galliano - Vinicio Capossela

Arena Santa Giuliana

Timeless artist, icon of style and music and undisputed talent of overseas rock, Lenny Kravitz returns live with his new project Blue Electric Light, the singer's twelfth studio album. An explosive, romantic, inspirational record. Kravitz's mastery of soulful rock 'n roll has long been established. As a relentless creative force – musician, writer, producer, actor, author, designer – he continues to be a dynamic global presence across music, art and culture. Blue Electric Light is a passionate suite of songs that expands on this distinction and is the latest contribution from a man whose music, not to mention his singular style, continues to inspire millions of people around the world. On the album, Kravitz's talents as a writer, producer and multi-instrumentalist resonate as he wrote and played most of the instruments himself, with longtime guitarist Craig Ross. Throughout his career, Lenny Kravitz has won four Grammy Awards and sold over 40 million copies worldwide. He was recently awarded the "Fashion Icon Award" by the CFDA and was also selected as a candidate for the 2023 Hollywood Walk of Fame, underlining his undeniable role as a style and music icon.

Lenny Kravitz

The Devil Quartet was conceived by Fresu to develop in a different and dialectical way, an idea of ​​a quartet that had materialized in the Angel Quartet. The Devil line up, with Bebo Ferra on guitar, Paolino Della Porta on double bass and Stefano Bagnoli on drums, brings together authentic specialists of their instruments but the final result is greater than the sum of the individuals. 

Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet

Teatro Morlacchi

Cha Wa is a funky band different from the others because it is closely intertwined with the ancient traditions of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans.

Raye is one of the most followed streaming artists in the world, with over 3 billion listens. Her new album, “My 21st Century Blues” is a deeply personal work of thirteen songs, touching on all the themes.

Cha Wa / Raye

This is a quartet of the highest artistic level, perfectly immersed in contemporary jazz and capable of providing great suggestions. A true all star, active for many years, assembling authentic masters of their instruments.


Kurt Rosenwinkel is one of the most innovative guitarists of the last 30 years. Saxophonist Mark Turner and drummer Jeff Ballard are also members of the magnificent trio Fly and the SFJAZZ Collective; Ben Street is one of the most sought-after double bass players today.

Kurt Rosewinkel's The Next Step

Danilo Rea has long been one of the best-known and most appreciated Italian musicians, including at an international level. In his career he played with the greatest American and Italian jazzmen. For years he has opened his repertoire, with extraordinary results, to arias from melodrama, pages of classical music, the rock of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, songwriting, from Fabrizio De André to Mina.


Danilo Rea has long been one of the most famous and appreciated Italian musicians, also internationally. Throughout his career, he has performed with the most excellent Italian and American jazzmen. He has been opening his repertoire to arias from melodramas, classical music, the rock of the Rolling Stones and Beatles, and songwriting, from Fabrizio De André to Mina, with extraordinary results.

Danilo Rea

Chris Potter joins Brad Mehldau to create a new quartet with John Patitucci and Johnathan Blake that represents the jazz played in the 2000s at the highest levels.



Gil Evans' orchestra wrote one of the most beautiful chapters in the history of Umbria Jazz. Now Pete Levin, one of the members of that band, has brought together some musicians from Evans' orchestras of the 70s and 80s in the Gil Evans Remembered project.

Potter / Mehldau / Patitucci / Blake Gil Evans Remembered

Hiromi's Sonicwonder is an explosive quartet without defined musical boundaries and author of an unscrupulous electric and acoustic blend of jazz-rock-funky. 


Hiromi's Sonicwonder is an explosive quartet that has no defined musical boundaries and has composed an unscrupulous electric and acoustic mix of jazz, rock and funk music. 

Hiromi's Sonicwonder / Lizz Wright

Something Else! it is a true celebration of the genre that went down in history as soul jazz. The band plays new and modern arrangements of 50s – 60s classics plus original compositions written in the same style.


The band Something Else! is made up of seven musicians chosen from time to time from a shortlist of names selected among the major specialists of the modern mainstream who love to play the music of their youth putting heart and great competence into it.

"something Else!" Feat. Vincent Herring, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery, Paul Bollenback, Dave Kikoski, Essiet Essiet, Lewis Nash

Alessandro Lanzoni and Francesco Cafiso are among the leading Italian musicians today, and both enjoy great international recognition. They have in common that they were two child prodigies, who rose onto the jazz scene at a young age, and then became mature artists of unquestionable depth. 


Alessandro Lanzoni and Francesco Cafiso are now among the leading Italian musicians, enjoying great prestige worldwide. They both were child prodigies who entered the jazz world at a young age and became mature artists of indisputable depth: in their case, promises have been fulfilled.

Alessandro Lanzoni Trio Feat Francesco Cafiso

Fabrizio Bosso at Umbria Jazz with a unique tent: the classic quartet with the addition of six wind instruments from the Paolo Silvestri Winds Ensemble, with arrangements and direction by Paolo Silvestri. The collaboration between the Turin trumpeter and Silvestri, a great specialist in jazz writing, is long-standing. At the center of the project is the consolidated and highly appreciated quartet, with Mazzariello on piano, Jacopo Ferrazza on double bass and Nicola Angelucci on drums. 

Fabrizio Bosso About Ten

Toto , scheduled for July 17, is one of the most successful selling bands in the world both in terms of tours and albums (28, with over 40 million copies). The band of Steve Lukather and his associates composed songs, such as “ Africa ”, “ Hold the Line ”, “ Rosanna ” or “ Georgy Porgy ”, which dominated the charts and became legend

TOTO

Christian Sands, pianist, composer and band leader, is one of the new protagonists of the contemporary jazz scene. “A jazz star of the future,” Wynton Marsalis defined him in unsuspecting times. His musical culture allows us to maintain strong ties with our roots; at the same time, Sands is a forward-leaning artist. 

Christian Sands Trio

Actress, singer, songwriter: Fatoumata Diawara has many talents, one of the most intriguing personalities on the young African scene. In her music, respect for traditions and the reference to the roots of folklore mix seamlessly with a cultural message that looks to the future and the world.

Fatoumata Diawara "london Ko" / Laufey

Roberto Fonseca is one of the best representatives of the glorious Cuban piano school. His most recent project, “La Gran Diversión” is also a musically seething show that recalls the glories of the great dancehalls of the roaring years of Cuban music.

Roberto Fonseca "la Gran Diversión" / Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50

Enrico Rava is one of the musicians most present in the summer and winter editions of Umbria Jazz. Which is completely normal if you consider how much Rava had an impact on the development of Italian and European jazz.


The "fearless" quintet brings together young and creative energies and the enormous experience of Enrico Rava, band leader, as well as always an extraordinary evergreen soloist of the best jazz.

Enrico Rava "the Fearless Five"

Veronica Swift  returns to UJ after her 2019 debut and  presents her self-titled album released in 2023, which follows “Confessions” (2019) and “This Bitter Earth” (2021).


Having broken up and reconstituted themselves, then broken up again, here is  Nile Rodgers & CHIC  reviving once again the glorious epic of a sound that belongs to the history of the best popular music, not just dance, of the last thirty years.

Veronica Swift - Nile Rodgers & Chic

Charles Lloyd was named “Jazz Master” by the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the highest honor the United States can bestow on a jazz musician.


Behind this recognition there is a story that makes Charles Lloyd a legend of world music, not just jazz.

Charles Lloyd Quartet Feat Jason Moran Larry Grenadier Eric Harland

Djavan arrives at UJ24, one of the most beloved Brazilian artists as well as one of the main architects of that meeting between cultures which contributed significantly to opening the doors of the world music market to MPB.

Djavan / Pacific Mambo Orchestra

Dado Moroni has never hidden his love for Bill Evans' music and Kind of Bill is the title of his tribute. Naturally it is a trio, enriched by the presence of Eddie Gomez, double bass, who was part of Bill Evans' trio for eleven years, from 1966 to 1977, and Joe La Barbera, drums, who was with Evans in his last two years, 1979- 1980 .

Umbria Jazz

Jun 12, 2024

Richard Galliano - Vinicio Capossela

Jul 13, 2024

Lenny Kravitz

Jul 13, 2024

Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet

Jul 14, 2024

Cha Wa / Raye

Jul 14, 2024

Kurt Rosewinkel's The Next Step

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