BERGAMO JAZZ 2026 Artistic Direction by Joe Lovano "Setting The Pace: Miles & Trane 100th Celebration! The complete program of the 47th edition March 19-22, 2026 Concerts in theaters, museums and venues around the city Meetings with cinema and art, lectures-concerts for schools Concerts in theaters, museums, venues, encounters with the visual arts, lessons-concerts for schools: after announcing last October the appointments at Teatro Donizetti and Teatro Sociale, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti now presents the complete program of the 47th edition of Bergamo Jazz, which for four days, from March 19 to 22, will spread the thousand sounds of jazz throughout the city. The Festival is organized with the support of the City of Bergamo, MIC-Ministry of Culture, private sponsors and as usual sees the collaboration with numerous institutions and associations in the area, Setting The Pace, dictating the pace or setting the pace, is the title chosen by Joe Lovano, for the third time Artistic Director of Bergamo Jazz, in highlighting an extraordinary anniversary: the centenary of the birth of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, seminal and iconic figures in African-American music and culture. Keeping true to its nature, Bergamo Jazz 2026 will also be a festival with an international scope, a mirror of the many souls that cohabit in the world of jazz music, between references to tradition and innovative projections. More than 80 guest artists, with a significant representation of Italian musicians, including many young talents, and a consolidated presence of jazz conjugated to women. It will be a widespread festival-with important new locations-that will bring jazz music into contact with the fabric of the city, infecting it with its spirit of adventure, with its universal message of peace and dialogue between different peoples. A timely and necessary message, especially in complex times like the ones we are living. Jazz at Donizetti On Friday, March 20, the first of three subscription evenings at Teatro Donizetti, beginning at 8:30 p.m., beloved by both Bergamo residents and those from all over Italy and beyond, will be opened by the duo formed by double bass ace Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke, one of the most innovative guitarists to appear on the jazz scene in recent decades. Holland and Loueke will serve as "openers" for Steve Coleman and his Five Elements: the Chicago saxophonist will return to Bergamo exactly 20 years after his previous performance to offer his well-rehearsed blend of visionary funk in which the most imaginative improvisation is interpenetrated with rigorous compositional structures. The next evening, Bergamo Jazz 2026 will offer for listening one of the groups of the moment, Bad Plus, in a special edition that will feature its two founding members, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King, joined by saxophonist Chris Potter and pianist Craig Taborn, or two other giants of contemporary jazz in their respective instrumental specificities. Central to the quartet's music will be compositions written by Keith Jarrett for his glorious American Quartet, the one in which the Allentown pianist dialogued with Dewey