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End and end to the Cartagena Jazz Festival this Saturday, November 25.
In the morning, at the Plaza del Icue, at 12:30, the concert of Big Band Groove In.
At night, at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, a double program with: Zenet and the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca.
Both come to present their latest works.
The concert at the Cartagena theater will begin at 9:30 p.m.
The locations are priced at 18 euros.
ABOUT ZENET
Since Zenet climbed for the first time on a stage, until today, enough years have passed for us to know that we are not facing a phenomenon produced by a passing fad.
Even less, in the face of a cold product of marketing techniques.
Zenet has known how to find his audience, and find him, to offer him an authentic, personal, solid and coherent artistic project, not a castle of fireworks that go out as the first flash of light passes.
It has been eight years since Zenet's first album 'The Seas of China' came to the fore.
It sounded different and sounded good, and it became the owner by right of a land that no one stepped on.
In that first album, the language of jazz, the Latin sonorous universe and the resonance of the music of half the world were braided successfully.
'The Seas of China'.
He won the Music Prize for Best New Artist, a recognition that followed in 2010, two years later, the award for Best Fusion Album for 'All Streets'.
The trilogy closes in 2012 with 'La Menor Explanacion', in which Zenet goes down the path started in his first two albums, opening his musical range from the couplet to jazz, from the soft echoes of bossa to the bright bars of a Big Band.
They have had to spend four years for Zenet to fine-tune his new project: 'If it happens, it is convenient', a job in which he wanted to leave his comfort zone, laboriously achieved in his initial trilogy, to embark on new paths accompanied by new rhythms, new genres, new experiences of an artist who has managed to mature, but who refuses to stagnate as much as to stop learning and evolve.
ABOUT ROBERTO FONSECA
'Abuc' is the new album by Roberto Fonseca, one of the most outstanding contemporary Cuban pianists.
The title is an anagram of Cuba, as if the album were a journey through time, through the musical eras that have marked the island.
The pianist, born in 1975 in Cuba in a family of musicians, already demonstrated in previous albums his talent in fusing the different musical currents present in Cuba with a jazz base.
Roberto Fonseca says that music is the reflection of what one has in one's head: "You play as you think".
And the first thing in Fonseca's head is Cuba.
Perhaps that was taught to him by Ibrahim Ferrer, one of his teachers, who advised him that, regardless of the music he made, he would never forget that he was Cuban.
The album is a journey through the music of the island: the mambo, the bolero, the cha cha, the jazz and even the contradanza.
However, 'Abuc' is not a nostalgic record.
Fonseca fuses this traditional music with other rhythms, such as hip hop, R & B or electronic music.
Abuc is also a tribute to his family.
Jon Pareles, popular music critic of the New York Times, recommended Family, another track on this album, as one of the highlights of 2016. Roberto Fonseca has in his head Cuba and his family because both, or the mixture of both, they produced their musical sound and encouraged the freedom to play with the traditional music of their country.
BIG BAND GROOVE IN, IN THE JAZZ CALLEJERO
Twenty musicians from the Modern Music School 'Groove In' of Murcia, will be this Saturday, November 25 at 12:30 pm, in the Plaza del Icúe.
The band is directed by music teacher and saxophonist, José Pérez, they will perform an exquisite repertoire based on a selection of compositions by great masters such as: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, or Glenn Miller.
A session of the best jazz making a tour through the most influential and emblematic styles.
The cast of musicians is very heterogeneous, counting in their ranks with music teachers and students, as well as professional musicians of jazz and other styles.
All of them have in common a very high level of involvement, and an illusion with an extraordinary motivation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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