(beer in hand, waiting for the fun to begin)I heart Umbria Jazz! Hip cats and non, casually strutting around the city with cups of refreshing beer, swinging their head to the beat of whomever happens to be up on stage riffing away. Tickets are around 15 Euros for stand seats and actually knowing anything at all about jazz is an optional (thank goodness, in my case).
For our first pick of this year's festival (July 11th-20th), we went last night with Romina and Gianni to see Italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani playing together with some fabulous Brazilian musicians - literally music to my ears! Too bad the evening couldn't just end there, though. After that was another 2 hours straight of Brazilian Caetano Veloso...or Caetano "Noioso" (the Boring) as I have renamed him. One man + his guitar + 2 hours of suicidally depressing Brazilian songs that all sound the same = a very fidgety Jodi. Not my favorite, but Monday night we go back for Cassandra Wilson and I'm sure it's going to be awesome!
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