Five days from noon to small music, ninety events, seven locations in the center of Orvieto, trenta band, more than one hundred and fifty musicians, a representative of the highest level of Italian jazz, The numbers say a lot, Umbria Jazz Winter 28 December to 1 January, but not enough.
Two are the defining features of the event in Orvieto also present this year as in all the previous twenty-six editions: The first, Music of different genres but always of a high standard, The second one, Diffused music in time and space, set in some of the most beautiful and important places of the old town, in a perfect symbiosis of art, culture, life quality.
Few cities such as Orvieto, the result of a complex and fascinating layering of three thousand years of history, They are so well suited to this task, which results in the formula that has made Umbria Jazz an event unique charm, musically, Umbria Jazz Winter tries to hold together two different characters, seemingly antithetical but, Unlike, They can be intertwined with the result to create a unique product. On one side, UJW is a festival that caters to an expert audience, curious, interested in qualifying for a music that requires commitment and attention, other, the party atmosphere that characterizes the New Year period also brings a fun soundtrack, suitable for all, maybe ideal backdrop to social occasions, In Umbria Jazz Winter cultura, tourism, art of good living will add up and blend.
The festival formula is now well known to her most frequent visitors and has remained virtually unchanged over the years for the simple fact that has proven to work, describe it equates to tell “route” music throughout different locations in the historical center and spend the day. We start from the Teatro Mancinelli which is the seat of the concert in prime time, what you might call the main stage; follows the Emilio Greek Museum hosting lunchtime concerts, in an intimate and refined environment for the most intriguing proposals; but do not forget the halls of the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, including the Etruscan room dedicated to pianists, They are the spaces afternoon; non stop music, from noon to night, the Palazzo dei Sette, where jazz, food and wine, another Umbrian excellence, They are an appealing symbiosis.
There remain the two central moments that have always characterized the festival, The first is the gospel concert that follows the New Year's Mass in the afternoon in the Cathedral, religious songs of the Afro-American tradition is a fixture of the festival programs, The second is the night that greets the arrival of the New Year with Great New Year's dinners and concerts before and after the stroke of midnight, Orvieto and Umbria Jazz await the jazz people in order to confirm event which is at the center of cultural life and the tourist attractiveness of the coming winter.
We report now the events and the most significant artists of this edition
ARTISTS OF UMBRIA JAZZ WINTER # 27
“The songs of Mina” DANILO REA, MORICONI MASSIMO, ALFREDO GOLINO
At the Tiger of Cremona, icon of Italian song, It is dedicated this recital, in which you can hear in a jazz melodies very well known and loved for generations of Italians, With Rea, two other musicians of great depth and experience as Moriconi and Golino who also worked with them for many Mina songs. The idea of the trio pay tribute to Mina has been translated in a recent disc, by title “Three for one”
THE MAGIC ANO THE MYSTERY OF THE BEATLES featuring JOHN SCOFIELD with JAY ANDERSON, LEWIS ASH, UMBRIA JAZZ ORCHESTRA & CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PERUGIA arrangements and direction GIL GOLDSTEIN
In the year when we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary “Abbey Road”, Umbria Jazz entrusts Gil Goldstein and Umbria Jazz Orchestra, with the star of John Scofield guitar, the reinterpretation of some of the most beautiful songs of the Fab Four- Special guests, Jay Anderson on bass and Lewis Nash on drums, or a stellar rhythm section.
“Tributo a Milt Jcckson e Bobby Hufcherson” JOEL ROSSI 
WARREN WOLF QUARTET feat, JOE SANDERS e GREG HUTCHINSON VIBES SUMMIT – JOEL ROSSI WARREN WOLFI JOE LOCKE feat, JOE SANDERS e GREG HUTCHINSON
The history of the vibraphone in jazz can be told – if it greatly simplifies, maybe too much – a straight line running from Lionel Hampton, Milt passes 
Jackson and get to Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton, Having thus played a role in the evolution of the entire African-American music, in recent years the vibraphone has experienced a revival thanks to a large group of new performers, three of these, of many generations, They are present at Umbria Jazz Winter, much to characterize so strong this year. It is a tribute to a striking tool, the warm sound and at the same time ethereal, technically related with percussion but with the “eloquence” expression worthy of a piano, and it is rare to hear a quartet with two vibes, It is a pretty unique event to see three vibes on stage!
PAUL FRESU DEVIL QUARTET
PAUL FRESU DEVIL QUARTET special guest FRANCESCO DIODATI
PAUL FRESU DEVIL QUARTET special guest Gianluca Petrella
PAUL TRIO FRESU “TIME CHET”, special guest STEFANO BAGNOLI
Four times Paolo Fresu, a Umbria Jazz Winter, for what could be called a blank cards in the hands of one of the leaders of the Italian jazz movement – and not only, Three performances protagonist Devii the Quartet: one with its usual formation; a second version “power”, with special guest Francesco Diodati on guitar; in the third mode “acoustics” with special guest trombonist Gianluca Petrella, The Slant Quartet was conceived by Fresu to develop differently idea of quartet.
To line up del Devi, Bebo Ferra on guitar, Paolino Della Porta on double bass and Stefano Bagnoli on drums, combines authentic specialists of their instruments but the end result, as always it happens in the well played jazz, It is greater than the sum of the individual.
In the fourth performance Fresu scene is the trio with Dino Rubino and Marco alpianoforte Bardoscia on bass for the project “Chet Time”, Also here, a special guest, Stefano Bagnoli on drums.
SULLIVAN FORTNER special guest MICHELA MARINO LERMAN (tap dancer)
SULLIVAN FORTNER TRIO feat, JAY ANDERSON & LEWIS NASH special guest MICHELA MARINO LERMAN (tap dancer)
Con Sullivan Fortner, pianist thirty-New Orleans, Umbria Jazz continues the tradition of presenting and enhancing the Italian public the new talents of American jazz scene.
In either case, at his side there is an artist out of the ordinary: Michela Marino Lerman is a virtuoso of the top dance, that in Italy it is commonly called tip top
JOHN SCOFIELD
John Scofield torna a Umbria Jazz, whose starring crowd stages since the mid-80s (the band di Miles Davis), and it gives the audience of Orvieto only a performance that is not, for him, a very common occurrence, oltre naturalmente alle tre date con The Magic and the Mystery of the Beatles, with arrangements and direction of Gil Goldstein. The only Umbria Jazz performance is a rare opportunity to discover a more intimate gathering and a great artist who is now considered one of “big three” guitar virtuosos (others are Metheny and Frisell) It emerged in the latter part of the twentieth century.
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