Umbria
Jazz Festival 2004 is, without any doubt, one
of the most important event dedicated to jazz
in Europe. Since 1973, when was inaugurated the
first edition of the Festival Umbria Jazz, the
biggest jazz artists have come to Perugia: during
the '70 Dizzy Gillespie, Sam Rivers, Herbie Hanckok,
Enrico Rava, Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton and during
the more recent editions of the festival Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Gilberto Gil , Milton Nascimento,
Terence Blanchard, Paolo Conte, Vinicio Capossela,
Nicola Arigliano, Miriam Makeba, Renzo Arbore
and its Swing Maniacs, Sergio Cammariere, The
Coolbone Brass Band of New Orleans, Lyle Henderson
& Emmanuel Gospel Singers.
Also the Umbria Jazz Festival 2004 will take place
during the month of July for ten days during which
from morning to evening, without any continuity,
in the historic center of Perugia, will take place
dozens of concerts with musical offers covering
the entire music kinds to meet the tastes of a
public always more heterogeneous. Perugia will
become, once again, a meeting point for thousands
of music lovers, coming from all over Italy but
also from Europe and the United States.
