Siena Jazz Festival

SUAD is collaborating with the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Italian Cultural Institute and Accademia Nazionale del Jazz (Siena Jazz) to host a concert “with the goal of promoting young talent and contemporary jazz music”. The Academy, the only academic institution for jazz music education in Italy, runs the international Siena Jazz Festival for two weeks each summer; this inaugural UAE outcrop is a more modest event at the moment, with two bands. We know that one will be Camilla Battaglia’s four piece as used for her album EMIT: Rotator Tenet (hopefully including top trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, who often plays with her); we don’t know the other yet.

Tomorrow (18 October) the mini-festival moves to Dubai, with three bands playing at the Fridge.