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The Cartagena Jazz Festival will put rhythm to the city with the performance of 6 bands through the streets of the port city.
The Plaza del Icue will host the first four Saturdays of November at 1:00 pm the performances of Coco Carmona & Jazz Misioners, Alma Xintonia, Icue Street Band plus Las Musiquitas de Sauces and the Big Band of Santa Cecilia.
Also on Sunday, November 3 in the Miguel Hernández Street park, a performance by Mood Swing.
All concerts are free.
The first group to participate, Saturday, November 2, in the “Street Jazz” section will be Coco Carmona & Jazz Missioners.
This quartet is born of romanticism by the most classic sounds of traditional swing crooner.
Sinatra, Martin, King Cole and other great figures of the genre make up an exquisite repertoire that combines the taste of some of the most select jazz musicians in the region with the velvety voice of a singer more than known at jazz festivals and swing
This project stands out as a seal of elegance and experience, a quartet that defends your show successfully both in the most demanding stages and in the most select parties.
On Sunday, November 3 in the Calle Miguel Hernández park, in front of Bar El Cuervo, the performance of Mood Swing.
Swing, rhythm & blues, rock & roll, chanson ... are some of the stylistic elements that define Mood Swing's proposal.
Trio of musicians from Cartagena.
The voice and guitar of Leo Sánchez, the bass of Rafa Hernández and the piano of Lucas Albaladejo will take you back to the sounds that marked an era.
His influences: Louis Prima, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Ariel Rot, Frank Sinatra.
Alma Xintonia, Saturday, November 9, is a trio of jazz swing music manouche with original music, its leader the guitarist and composer of the group Raúl Molina de Anda, is Mexican with higher level studies of academic or classical music, in this new Adventure develops fresh melodies inspired by Marseille and Paris and will share on stage with Vincent Lethelier (France) the pompe guitar and on the double bass to Carmelo Grass (Spain).
"Las Musiquitas" is an instrumental ensemble formed exclusively by female components of the Sauces Musical Group, in a variable number according to the nature of the performance, which will be in the "Street Jazz" on Saturday, November 16.
All of them belong to the band of the Association, including the oboist Ainhoa ​​María Evangelista Espinosa, who acts as director of the formation.
A peculiar feature of this group is that it usually invites some young members of other bands in the region for each of their performances, as proof of the friendship and harmony that reigns among almost all the musical groups in the environment.
Under an atmosphere of passion for jazz, sea breeze and the essence of port salt, the 'IcueJazz Street Band will also perform on November 16.
Formed by young and talented musicians from Cartagena, this lively band will flood with rhythms and melodies of authentic root jazz, the Plaza del Icue.
With tributaries such as swing, ragtime, dixieland and blues, this river of metals and percussion will lead its way through the city center in the purest New Orleans style that will not leave the navigator indifferent.
'The Big Band of the SAM' will be responsible for closing the street concerts of the 39th edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
This band was born this year in the Musical Artistic Society of Santa Cecilia de Pozo Estrecho, with the aim of bringing the language of modern music and the practice of different styles to those usually performed from other groups, with special emphasis on jazz and other derivatives and subgenres such as swing, funk, latin, soul, rock, etc.
Currently the artistic director and founder of this group is the young Cartagena from Juan A. Rubio.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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