2026 Program

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.