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Umbria Jazz Perugia, Italy - 07 July 2017

Where

Getting There

Getting There

Buses
nearest bus station:
Stazione Autobus Perugia - Piazza Partigiani

shuttle bus:
Airport Shuttle

Other
nearest airport:
Perugia San Francesco d’Assisi - Umbria (PEG)

nearest train station:
Stazione di Perugia Fontivegge

Getting to Umbria Jazz Festival

  • Umbria Jazz Music Festival is in Perugia - the capital city of the Umbria region. 
  • Perugia is less than 200 km from Rome & about 150 km from Florence.

BY Air

  • Perugia San Francesco d’Assisi - Umbria International Airport
  • Perugia airport is situated between Perugia & Assisi at Sant’Egidio.
  • Daily flights connect Rome (Roma Fiumicino Airport) to Perugia.
  • Jazz-lovers arriving from abroad can fly direct to Perugia or connect via Rome, Florence or other major Italian cities.

BY CAR

  • From Rome: take the A1 motorway north, exit at Orte and follow the signs to Perugia.
  • Exit at Perugia S. Faustino and follow the signs for Centro - Elce Zona Universitaria.
  • From Florence: take the A1 motorway south, exit at Valdichiana and follow signs to Perugia.
  • Exit at Perugia S. Faustino and follow the signs for Centro - Elce Zona Universitaria.

BY TRAIN 

Perugia Fontivegge station is served by local trains & direct intercity trains from Rome (about 2 hours) and Milan (via Bologna & Florence, about 5 hours).

BY BUS

Buses to Rome (Tiburtina Station & Fiumicino Airport) + Florence via SULGA

  • Sulga Helpline: 800 099 061
  • Phone: +39 075 500 9641

Getting Around Umbria Jazz Venues

Tickets

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options:
Free events, Pay per event, VIP options
Prices in the table are quoted in EUR
Adult90Concert tickets are priced per event. Prices range from about 90 to 60€ for numbered seats.
Adult25Stair-seating is the cheapest option.
Full pass0FREE concerts along streets & in piazzas.
Umbria Jazz Festival Tickets
  • Umbria Jazz tickets are priced by concert.
  • Section I = best seats.
  • Section II = medium-priced seats.
  • Stair-seating = cheapest tickets.
Umbria Jazz Free Events
  • Free events take place all along along Corso Vannucci.
  • Free conerts at Piazza IV Novembre & Giardini Carducci.

Umbria Jazz

Umbria Jazz

Umbria Jazz icon

Perugia, Italy

Arena Santa Giuliana
43.104020, 12.387358
type of festival
music
blues, jazz, pop, latin, rock, folk, world, rock & roll, acoustic & instrumental, brass & marching band
other events
art: visual arts & installations; dance: dancing; culture: exhibitions, street party, world-class multigenre
start Fri, 07 July 2017
end Sun, 16 July 2017

Programme
ADVERTISING

Umbria Jazz: Masters in Perugia

Umbria Jazz Fest is 10 days of concerts and 250+ street (e.g. Corso Vannucci) and piazza performances from noon to late-night; a global “best” jazz event & the largest Italian jazz festival. Each July, jam sessions & master concerts enthral half a million fans with world-class Italian and international artists such as Stefano Bollani Quartet, Buddy Guy, Pat Metheny, Ron Carter, Kurt Elling and Diana Krall + soul-funk-rocker George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic. UJ stages have featured B.B. King, Chet Baker and Natalie Cole, also jazz-fusion-master-pianist Chick Corea, Grammy-winner Kenny Garrett, Dizzy Gillespie’s pupil: Wallace Rooney, and 4X Grammy-recipient Chris McBride, at Arena Santa Giuliana on Via Orsini in ancient Perugia, Italy.

About

Umbria Jazz: Masters in Perugia

Umbria Jazz Festival was first held in 1973 at a time when jazz music wasn’t well loved in Italy. But it caught on with a vengeance, eventually hosting legendary artists such as Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespi, Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarret. One reason Umbria Jazz has enraptured Italy and the world is due to enriching its playbills with live performances of gospel, blues, soul, zydeco, marching band, rhythm ’n’ blues, world music, Cuban beats + latin salsa, and even pop rock. Over the years, UJ has featured non-jazz headliners like Elton John, Carlos Santana, Prince, James Brown, Donna Summer, Eric Clapton, Simply Red, Phil Collins and Sting. One odd duet on Umbria Jazz lineups includes a crowd-luring Lady Gaga spectacular with Tony Bennett’s “Cheek to Cheek”.

Jazzy Jams & Arena Concerts

Originally, Umbria Jazz shows were free, and although headline-grabbing performances are now ticketed events where approx. 35,000 fans/year pay to witness multi-genre music masters, 450,000 visitors still partake of free garden, theatre, street & piazza concerts, as well as joining the jazzy vibe at jam sessions hosted by funky wine bars, cafes and restaurants. Venues include quaint & quirky haunts, a stone mansion hotel (Il Cantico della natura in Montesperello), Teatro Morlacchi, Oratorio Santa Cecilia, various piazzas, and the main stadium: Arena Santa Giuliana in the heart of Perugia.

Umbria Jazz is world-class masters & jazzy piazza jams in an ancient city in Italy!

contributor: Gianluca Attanasio
published: 10 February 2016
updated: 20 August 2016
Age: 16+, an adult oriented event, but minors may attend if accompanied by a parent or guardian
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Details

Details

General: award-winning, biggest in the world, popular, best in the world
Ambiance: outdoor, urban, rural, street
Features: self-expression, relaxing, self-discovery, live music & shows

Umbria Jazz Present & Past

Pop + Jazz - UJ has a double soul: next to “classical jazz” there are also performances not specifically jazz. For example, British-Lebanese singer MIKA, renowned for pop-glam-rock & new wave music (and well-loved in Italy after starring in Le Invasioni Barbariche), also graces Umbria Jazz with a bit of popish Boum Boum Boum, immediately following his other concert - Concerto Sinfonico Affinis Consort - in Como Italy.

In the Beginning…

Umbria Jazz was christened on August 23, 1973. The first concerts, initially alll free, were a touring shows that took place at Piazza IV Novembre in Perugia, The Roman theater in Gubbio, Villalago, Piazza del Popolo in Todi, the Albornoz Fortress in Spoleto and Piazza San Francesco in Umbertide. As time passed, Umbria Jazz Fest became such a success that it led to serious problems of organization and... traffic congestion, e.g. “Count Basie once failed to reach the stage, trapped in a traffic jam”. Because of this, Umbria Jazz Music Festival changed in 1982: the concerts were held in Perugia with headline performances at Arena Santa Giuliana becoming ticketed events.

  • Free concerts & events did continue, some at the arena, others at Peacock theater, Oratorio Santa Cecilia, Piazza IV Novembre & Carducci Gardens.

Perugia

Perugia (capital of the Umbria region) is an ancient city of Etruscan origin, built on a green hill on the right of the Tiber, at 500 meters above sea level. It houses monuments from the Etruscan period, like the Tomb of the Volumnii & the Etruscan walls + sculptures, paintings, engravings & mosaics (perfectly preserved) from the Roman & Renaissance periods.

  • Perugia is near Assisi, Gubbio, Siena, Florence & Rome.
  • It’s also near medieval hilltop villages like Montepulciano & Pienza, and Val d’Orcia - a World Heritage Site - in Tuscany.

Umbria Jazz Line-ups & Famous Headliners

B.B. King, Burt Bacharach, Chet Baker, Gato Barbieri, Tony Bennett , George Benson, Carla Bley, Stefano Bollani, Dee Dee Bridgewater, James Brown, Gary Burton, Francesco Cafiso, Vinicio Capossela, Eric Clapton, Natalie Cole, George Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Phil Collins, Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Earth, Wind & Fire, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Lady Gaga, Richard Galliano, Gilberto Gil , João Gilberto, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Ahmad Jamal, Al Jarreau, Keith Jarrett, Elton John, Alicia Keys, Miriam Makeba, The Manhattan Transfer, Wynton Marsalis, Carmen McRae, Bobby McFerrin, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Charles Mingus, Gabriele Mirabassi, Van Morrison, Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enzo Pietropaoli, Enrico Rava, Sonny Rollins, Carlos Santana, Renato Sellani, Horace Silver, Simply Red, Wayne Shorter, Sting, Sun Ra and his Interstellar Galactic Arkestra, Cecil Taylor, James Taylor, Sarah Vaughan, Caetano Veloso, Cedar Walton, Weather Report, Prince, Joe Zawinul.

Reviews

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Beds & Eats

Accommodation

Umbria Jazz Festival Accommodation

Perugia hotels and resorts include:

  • Castello di Monterone
  • Borgo Dei Conti Resort

Amenities

Eats & Drinks: Bars, Restaurants, Water
Fresh & Clean: Toilets
Cash & Shops: Cash, Shops
Zone In & Out: Wi-Fi Zone, VIP Zone
Accessibility: yes
Umbria Jazz Amenities
  • Umbria Jazz converts Perugia into a city-wide festival where street & piazza concerts include world-class amenities.
  • Wine bars, cafes & restaurants stage concerts + serve eats & drinks.
  • Bottega del vino on Via Sole serves food & wine during concerts.
  • Ristorante La Taverna on Via Streghe is often featured in the official UJ program for night jam sessions + eats & drinks.
  • Beer connoisseurs will love Elfo’s on Via Sant’Agata with bubbly on tap + jazzy jam sessons.
  • Wine-lovers will revel in the intimate jazz-filled ambiance at Piacere DiVino on Via Baglioni.

When

Dates

start Fri, 07 July 2017
end Sun, 16 July 2017
Umbria Jazz Festival Dates
  • Since 1973 UJ as been held during the Perugia summer.
  • It unfolds over 10 days in July.

Season & Weather

Season: Summer
Temperature: 20 to 27 °C

Perugia weather in mid-summer is pleasantly warm and ideal for outdoor concerts. During the day, highs can reach above 27°C. Evenings are cooler but still comfortable.

Contact

Contact

Web: http://www.umbriajazz.com/
Email: info@umbriajazz.com
Tel: +39 075 573 2432
Umbria Jazz Festival Contact
Perugia Tourism Office

Promoter

Fondazione di Partecipazione Umbria Jazz: Piazza Danti 28, Perugia, Italy.
umbria jazz handler