Tickets for the headline acts from €23, North Sea jazz festival, Rotterdam Accommodation options If booking late, one possibility just outside Perugia and offering B&B and camping is the rustic Perugia Farmhouse (doubles from €58, camping from €16pp) – which has a pool. They will be joined by two acts who aren’t strictly speaking jazz: George Clinton’s Funkadelic (remember the joyous set at last year’s Glastonbury?) and Mika, the singer of hit single Grace Kelly, who’s a judge on the Italian X-Factor. Also appearing is Chick Corea and organist Cory Henry and his Apostles band. There’s music around every medieval corner but on the main stage at the outdoor Arean Santa Giuliana this year are guitarist John Scofield, veteran bluesman Buddy Guy, bassist Marcus Miller and vocalist/pianist Diana Krall. A good camping option is Les Horizons Blues at the lake’s edge, a couple of miles from the centre of town (two man tent from €30pn) Individual tickets and event packages are available at Umbria jazz festival, Perugia, ItalyĨ-17 July Highlight Branford Marsalis/Kurt Elling Eclectic contemporary sounds will waft through gorgeous Perugia’s piazzas, cobbled alleys and arched stairways this summer, as they have most years since 1973, leaving jazz lovers giddy. Accommodation options It’s a bit of a squeeze with up to 200,000 visitors tagged on to the 28,000 residents, although the town has a large hotel capacity. Being in Switzerland it scrubs up well and there’s a big emphasis on sustainability with a vast cleanliness and recycling effort. Muse are the big rock act set for this year (already sold out) but for jazz lovers the lineup includes Lisa Simone, Mike Stern, Dweezil Zappa, Al Jarreau, Quincy Jones and Biréli Lagrène. It has featured Led Zeppelin, New Order and Eric Clapton in its time, but jazz remains at its core with workshops, jazz cruises on Lake Geneva, jazz trains, competitions for young musicians, late-night jams, club stages, outdoor stages, large auditoriums, heaps of DJs and chilled out bars. Accommodation options In its third year, A Love Supreme offers a Lattitude-ish array of camping options including Hobbit Huts, bell tents and podpads (from £26.50pp pn in addition to weekend camping price) Day ticket £59.40, weekend £159.50 including camping, Montreux jazz festival, Switzerlandġ-16 July Highlight Charles Lloyd New Quartet The daddy of European jazz festivals – second in size globally only to Montreal’s enormous annual jamboree – has, over its 49 years, become a general modern music event. Oh yes, and a certain Burt Bacharach will be segueing his strings of hits too. The genre-bending compass swings back to full-on jazz with guitarist John Scofield (in an all-star trio with pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer Mark Giuliani), bass legend Stanley Clarke, and Kamasi Washington – a Kendrick Lamar sideman.
In addition to Grace Jones, the lineup this year puts several charismatic female jazz/soul vocalists to the fore: there is south London’s Lianne La Havas, Dutch singer Caro Emerald, bluesy Melody Gardot, and hitmaker Kelis. Tickets for amphitheatre gigs from €36 (under 12s free, €22 12-16s), seven-night ticket €180 and three nights from about €80, A Love Supreme, Sussexġ-3 July Highlight Esperanza Spalding While Rossini’s comic masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia is wowing punters at Glyndebourne, the audience a mile down the road at Glynde Place will be slaves to an altogether different kind of rhythm. Vienne’s proximity to Lyon means stays in the southern part of that city can be only 25 minutes away by car or bus – if you find that Vienne itself is booked out.
Accommodation options Check out for B&Bs and hostels. But beyond the amphitheatre are smaller venues such as the Garden of Cybele, another Roman relic, offering music throughout the day and workshops for aspiring musicians. One of the most dramatic settings for outdoor jazz is at ancient Vienne, south of Lyon on the Rhône, where a Roman amphitheatre hosts the main acts, which this year include Imelda May, Esperanza Spalding, Earth Wind and Fire, Chic, Erik Truffaz, a tribute to Django Reinhardt, Diana Krall, Lisa Simone and Brad Mehldau. In the summer the genre is still part of the street scene in towns and villages across the nation. Amp it up … the Roman amphitheatre, venue for many of the festival’s concerts.Ģ8 June-15 July Highlight Diana Krall The French took American jazz to their hearts in the 1920s, adding their own flavours in the form of jazz manouche.
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