uvery good news. The first name confirmed for the new edition of Umbria Jazz is that of Paul Conte. The 85-year-old artist (he will turn 86 on January 6) will perform on Saturday 15 July 2023 at 21.30 at the Arena Santa Giuliana in Perugia.
Umbria Jazz and Paolo Conte: a love story
This it is not the first time that the Piedmontese singer-songwriter is on the bill of the most important jazz music festival in our country. The event (started in 1973) has already hosted him numerous times, starting with thedebut in 1984when he performed with the Doctor Dixie Jazz Band and some special soloists: Pupi Avati And Renzo Arbore.
Paolo Conte then returned in 2001 at the Gardens of the Frontone. Eight years later, he starred in a memorable live at the Arena Santa Giuliana. In 2015 she participated in a concert dedicated to his friend and promoter Sergio Piazzoli. And in 2019 again at the Arena Santa Giuliana – today considered the main stage of the Festival, in the heart of Perugia, next to the church and the former thirteenth-century monastery of Santa Giuliana – for the evening “Under the stars of jazz“.
In short: the presence of Paolo Conte in the Umbria Jazz edition that will celebrate his parents fifty years of life it has a special meaning. Few artists have lived as closely as he has the evolution of the event, between guests and locations. Online pre-sales for July 15, 2023 will be available as of December 22, 2022. Here all the information.
Paolo Conte at the Lucca Summer Festival. (Getty Images)
Umbria Jazz: «With him songs can become poetic sketches enclosed in a refined musical shell»
This special bond has also been confirmed by a note published by the organizers of the event. «Umbria Jazz has devoted great attention to the song and its artists over the years but he reserved a particular space for Conte. Because jazz, for Paolo Conte, is an essential part of a musical history that began precisely as a jazz pianist and vibraphonist».
And keep it up. “Because in many of his songs you can hear a culture, a mood (and a form) of jazz. Because, above all, there is that unmistakable existential scent of jazz, that aftertaste of melancholic evocation which represents its most authentic and profound soul. And we also want to add that Paolo Conte wrote that sort of identity manifesto that tells the variegated microcosm that stirs under the stars of jazz?».
The note ends with a beautiful image. «Of course it is Paolo Conte’s concerts have never betrayed the expectations of those who know that with him songs can become poetic sketches enclosed in a refined musical shell».
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