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They will come with new record Christian Scott and Madeleine Peyroux tomorrow November 26 to the closing of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
In a double program in the New Circus Theater that will begin at 21:30 hours and in which the last entries are left.
From Christian Scott it has been said that "with him begins the new era of jazz", which is "the architect of a new fusion" and have been categorized as "the young god of jazz".
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah ​​is coming to present his latest album "Strech Music".
As well as Madeleine Peyroux, with the complicity of the two musicians who have accompanied her in recent years throughout the world, guitarist Jon Herington and bassist Barak Mori, the North American will present his "Secular Hymns", a moving playful Of melodies in which it realizes a captivating mixture of funk, blues and jazz.
Christian Scott is a trumpeter who drank from jazz sources in his native New Orleans to develop his own style, taking the risk of being the leader of new trends in American jazz.
Known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah ​​has twice won the Edison Award (2010 and 2012) and has been nominated for a Grammy for "Rewind That", his debut album.
Billboard rated it "the most notable premiere in the genre seen in the last decade" and included it in the 2006 list of names to keep in mind.
He is the grandson of jazz innovator and legendary Donald Harrison Sr. and began his career at age thirteen under the tutelage and direction of his uncle, saxophonist Donald Harison Jr. After graduating from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts in In 2001, Christian received a scholarship to study in Berklee, where he obtained his diploma 30 months later.
Since 2002, it has released seven studio-acclaimed studio albums and two live albums.
According to the NPR, the national radio of the United States, "Christian Scott marks the beginning of a new era of jazz".
He has been recognized by the magazine JazzTimes as "The Architect of a new fusion" and "The God of the young Jazz style".
Scott is known for emphasizing breathing over vibration in a technique known as "the whisper" and is considered as one of the fathers of "Strech Music", a genre with roots in jazz, that tries to narrow the rhythm, the melodies and Harmonious conventions to encompass other forms, languages ​​and cultures.
It is also the inspiration for the character of Delmond Lambreaux of the series "Treme" of HBO.
The artist is also dedicated to different causes that positively impact the community, dedicating their time and talent to different organizations.
That is why Ebony magazine has recognized him as one of the 30 young leaders to follow.
It belongs to the Guardians Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining culture in low-income areas.
Scott has supported the program by offering private lessons, handing out books, raising funds, and donating musical instruments.
Christian Scott is overwhelming and intense.
And in it, jazz is the sound of surprise.
After Scott will appear on the stage of the New Circus Theater, Madeleine Peyroux.
Twenty years after her debut, Madeleine Peyroux (Georgia, United States, 1974) remains unshakable her spell.
With the complicity of the two musicians who have accompanied him in recent years around the world, guitarist Jon Herington and bassist Barak Mori, the American has just published Secular Hymns, a moving masterpiece full of melodies in which it is performed A captivating mix of funk, blues and jazz.
The disc was recorded in a church of century XII of Oxfordshire (England).
With his expressive and seductive voice, Peyroux comes to Cartagena with a version work in which he plays the melodies of songs by great blues artists with songs written by Willie Dixon, Lil Green, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Allen Toussaint and Considered as the first great American composer, Stephen Foster.
"Music has been my spiritual life," says Peyroux, "so these songs are hymns, intimate and personal secular hymns."
Madeleine Peyrouux is one of the best vocalists to have emerged on the jazz scene in the last two decades and her voice is continually compared to Billie Holiday.
He trained as a musician in his teens, in the streets of Paris, where he moved with his mother after his father's divorce.
At the age of 23, after getting his first record, he ran away.
It would not reappear until eight years later.
At that time he lost his voice he bought a van and undertook a waitress's pilgrimage through Atlanta, Nashville, New York.
His legend says that it tends to disappear between disks. He comes back to Cartagena, this time to present his ninth.
For years it needs few presentations.
It is already one of the great stars of contemporary jazz.
The day of Saturday will begin at 12:30 in the plaza of the Icue with Marching Band, which will be responsible for bringing the audience the typical repertoire of New Orleans tradition that was so important in the birth of jazz music.
It is composed of members of the Big Band Cotijazz, who have also prepared an interactive and participatory show for children and potatoes that aims to bring jazz music to the younger ones through its friendlier face.
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