Treviso is back Suona Jazz, on stage the piano star Uri Caine

The review from 25 to 29 May 2022, there will also be Salis, Zanchini, Bearzatti and the Steffani and Venezze Conservatories

TREVISO. After the last two editions “moved” in late summer, due to the pandemic, Treviso plays Jazz Festival is ready to return to old and good habits. The review promoted by the association Urban Contemporarywith the artistic direction of Nicola Bortolanza and the partnership of The Tribuna of Treviso and the Venetian newspapers of Gedi Groupwarm up the engines in view of its eighth edition: from 25 to 29 May the city will be transformed into a real open-air theater with some of the most interesting top jazz artists at national and international level.

The well-established business card of the festival is the happy combination of music and “other” places, to combine music and art with taste (cinema in primis), consolidating the now symbiotic relationship with Steffani Conservativesof Castelfranco and Venezze di Rovigo (as well as with the Treviso association Manzato) and making the stalls of the clubs the places of outdoor jazz par excellence. The bill is not yet defined in detail, however we can anticipate some very important names that will be guests of the festival.

Uri Caineone of the most prestigious jazz pianists of recent decades, will take the stage of the Teatro Del Monaco Saturday 28 May. Caine, from the United States, is a true eclectic of the instrument capable of escaping any kind of cataloging and transporting the public, every time, on a new and exciting sonic journey: from Beethoven to rock, from the beloved Mahler, Wagner and Gershwin to swing and to nu jazz, passing through Bach and black music, Schumann and folk.

Treviso Suona Jazz will officially take off on Wednesday 25 May, atauditorium of the Province in Sant’Artemio, with the notes of Antonello Salis and Simone Zanchini: a meeting at the top between two tightrope walkers of the accordion, improvisation magicians and protagonists of the international jazz scene. Thursday 26 May is expected the usual extra appointment, dedicated to cinema, with the live soundtrack of a masterpiece of silent cinema by Buster Keaton, while on Friday 27 May, again at the Sant’Artemio auditorium, the new record by the saxophonist will be presented. and clarinetist Francesco Bearzatti. An exciting work, his, dedicated to a jazz legend with a restless and adventurous life: the clarinetist of Sicilian origin Tony Scott. Bearzatti, leader of some of the most innovative Italian groups in recent years, has been able to seduce an ever wider audience; alongside him, guitarist FEderic Casagrandeof Treviso origins, the double bass player Gabriele Evangelista and the drummer Zeno De Rossiinstrumentalists among the most popular not only in Italy.

During the weekend at the end of May the outdoor performances will also be reconfirmed, with the Steffani and Venezze Conservatories, with a special event dedicated to the figure of Charles Mingus, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth: three free admission events dedicated to young talents, testimony of a festival that is increasingly attentive to new generations as well.

Tickets for the scheduled concerts can already be purchased on Vivaticket and in the affiliated sales points (at a cost of 20 euros), or online, on teatrostabileveneto.it and at the ticket office at the Teatro Del Monaco starting from Tuesday 22 March, for the performance of Uri. Caine (from 12 to 28 euros). From 2 May tickets (Caine excluded) can also be purchased in the Mezzoforte shop in Treviso.