In seven editions, Luglio in Jazz, a musical event by Centro Commerciale Campania, has hosted great artists of international fame, trying to bring the genre closer to an ever new and different audience. Luglio in Jazz is enriched every year with new names, confirming itself as one of the most anticipated musical events by enthusiasts.
Six concerts will be held from July 4th to 27th. The stage in Piazza Campania will feature Take 6 Tribute to Al Jarreau, Vincente Amigo, Ivan Lins quintet feat Antonio Farao, Diane Schuur Trio, Enrico Rava Quartet and Chano Dominguez Trio. The concerts will start at 22.00:XNUMX p.m.
Wednesday July 4
TAKE 6 Tribute to Al Jerreau
The most awarded a cappella group in history: 10 Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards, 2 NAACP Image Awards and a Soul Train Award. Take 6, aka Claude McKnight, Mark Kibble, Joel Kibble, Dave Thomas, Alvin Chea and Khristian Dentley, never stop offering their audiences an extraordinary style of singing. April 2018 marked the release of their sixteenth album “Iconic” and an important collaboration with Manhattan Transfer. Take 6 are capable of moving admirably between the most diverse musical genres, from jazz to pop, R&B to blues.
Wednesday July 11
WINNER FRIEND
He is one of the great masters of flamenco guitar, with his innate sensitivity he manages to make his touch intimate and at the same time rhythmic. Vicente Amigo has managed to spread his music thanks to the English producer Guy Fletcher, recording in London with musicians such as Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, Capercaillie, making an exceptional, courageous album, in which flamenco marries naturally with other musical roots, opening new paths, moving between different styles, creating something new. All the musicians, singers and dancers who work with him manage to merge with each other in a wonderful mix of sensations, offering a flamenco show of the highest level. Vicente Amigo won the Latin Grammy (Best Flamenco Album), with his album Memoria de los Sentidos and received a nomination for the Best World Album category, on the occasion of the Grammi Awards 2017.
Wednesday July 18
IVAN LINS QUINTET feat. Antonio Farao
A complete musician and great author, he is famous for the many Grammy Awards and Latin Grammys he has won during his career. Self-taught, he began playing the piano at 18 and was greatly influenced by the music he listened to during his childhood in the United States, as well as jazz and bossa nova. Lins proposes a varied harmonic construction in his songs, quite unusual in Brazilian music, a characteristic that makes him highly appreciated among musicians around the world. His work has always been renewed over the years, bringing new musical values, without ever losing its DNA and originality. Since the second half of the 80s, his work has taken on a greater international impact, especially in the USA, where he has collaborated with artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Quincy Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, George Benson, Sting, Diana Krall, Barbara Streisand.
Friday July 20
DIANE SCHUUR TRIO
Diane Schuur is an artist as eclectic as she is brilliant. Blind since birth, but gifted with perfect intonation, she began playing the piano by ear. She later received a proper musical education at the Washington State Institute for the Blind, which she attended until she was 11 years old. Her family environment, with a father who was an amateur pianist and a mother who was passionate about Duke Ellington and Dinah Washington, certainly influenced her style. A career that spans three decades, during which Diane has won 2 Grammy Awards and received 3 other Grammy nominations, collaborating with artists of the caliber of Count Basie, Barry Manilow, BB King, Ray Charles, Josè Feliciano. Invited on several occasions to sing at the White House, Diane Schuur was also among the musical artists chosen to perform at the Kennedy Center Honors, during the official delivery of the prestigious award to Stevie Wonder. In June 2014, “I remember you (with love to Stan and Frank)” was released, a tribute to two of his most important mentors, Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz.
Wednesday July 25
ENRICO RAVA QUARTET
Winner of Musica Jazz's Top Jazz 2015 referendum as the band of the year, the New 4et is a meeting of different personalities who have come together thanks to the human and musical charisma of trumpeter Enrico Rava. Francesco Diodati offers a wise use of electronic effects, combined with technical and musical mastery of the electric and acoustic guitar; Gabriele Evangelista, considered one of the most creative and eclectic Italian double bass players, is the latest of the talents valorized by Rava, highly sought after for his extraordinary skills of precision, unbridled creativity, great interplay; Enrico Morello, a drummer with refined drumming and a curious musician respectful of tradition, with an astonishing swing and great sensitivity in the choice of dynamics, can count on an academic preparation and international experiences rare for many of his peers.
Friday July 27th
CHANO DOMINGUEZ TRIO
He is one of the most appreciated jazz musicians from the world of flamenco, as well as one of the most requested on the Spanish music scene, of any genre. Chano Dominguez has managed to integrate, in an original way, rhythms and languages of jazz and flamenco, playing on the piano pieces, for example, of tango, tanguillo, alegría, fandango, structuring them as traditional jazz. He currently lives in the United States where he holds numerous workshops in the most important colleges in the country, such as the Julliard School in New York and the University of Washington. In 2016 he received a nomination for the Latin Grammy for his production “Bendito”.
Piazza Campania Free Entry
PRIVATE CENTRAL AREA (reservation required) – €10,00 with drink
HOW TO BOOK – Reservations can be made at the Information Box
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