'Time jazz' turns 38 under the banner of 'What a Wonderful World'

Music for a world in colour and for eight days, starting today (8 August) it will animate and 'colour' 14 towns in northern Sardinia with Berchidda as its epicentre. The international event, conceived and directed by Paolo Fresu, this time will be under the banner of 'What a Wonderful World', a tribute to the iconic song made famous by Louis Armstrong in 1968: a hymn to beauty and hope, more necessary than ever in these difficult times. "We too like to think that the world is bright and beautiful to live in - comments Paolo Fresu - We believe that music and art have the power to transform it, to paint it in colour. That is why we have chosen What a Wonderful World as the leitmotif, in ideal continuity with the previous editions dedicated to Rainbow, Futura and A Love Supreme'.

On the five evenings scheduled in Berchidda, from Monday 11 to mid-August, a large cast of international artists will take turns on the festival's 'central stage' in Piazza del Popolo: Stefano Bollani with the Danish Trio, Enrico Rava with the Fearless Five, Danilo Rea in piano solo, the Mare Nostrum trio of Paolo Fresu, Richard Galliano and Jan Lundgren, Ze in the Clouds, and the Danes Svaneborg Kardyb and Trentemøller.

Les Amazones d'Afrique were given the task of sealing the Berchid evenings in the traditional Ferragosto (mid-August) party, the unfailing embrace between Time in Jazz and its audience, with the Piazza del Popolo open for free admission.

To precede the concerts in the square, FestivalBar returns, the mini festival hosted by the bars of Berchidda, this year an all-female event with singer-songwriters Sista Namely and Mazulco, with Gold Mass, an author and producer of electronic music, and TVS, a flutist, electronic musician, composer, producer and DJ. Scheduled shows and performances in Alà dei Sardi, Arzachena, Banari, Bortigiadas, Budoni, Loiri Porto San Paolo, Oschiri, Ozieri, Porto Rotondo, Posada, San Teodoro, Sant'Antonio di Gallura, Tempio Pausania,

On 5 and 6 September, 'an unprecedented novelty in the almost 40-year history of the festival', the programme continues under the title 'What a Wonderful World in September', with two days of activities in the open-air spaces of 'Sa colte 'e su 'oltiju', the garden next to Sa Casara, the former dairy today the headquarters of Time in Jazz.