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Two major long joined and made one of those albums that mark the history of music, with Michel Camilo and Tomatito Spain Again.
Years later rejoined the sounds of Latin jazz piano represented by Camilo and flamenco by the great Tomatito, and the result could not be called otherwise than Spain again.
Together they were yesterday at the Cartagena Jazz Festival, delighting the audience that packed the Nuevo Teatro Circo. At the end of Camilo & Tomatito Traffic Jam Cartagena group gave a concert in the lobby of the theater.
Camilo and Tomatito
Tomatito came into my world and I in theirs.
And together we try something that had not been done before and we had fun, Michel Camilo speaks well of what it meant personally to union with the one admired Tomatito Spain.
A few years later, they pool their musical worlds.
Flamenco and Latin jazz shook hands again with Spain again.
Together again Cartagena Jazz Festival to introduce the public in their states and musical worlds.
It is no exaggeration to say that, musically, Camilo and Tomatito come from two very different worlds.
Camilo, who grew up in the Dominican Republic but has lived in New York since 1979, is a jazz pianist who incorporates a wide variety of Latin and Caribbean elements among which may include Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans and Art Tatum, among some of his main influences.
Tomatito, however, lives in Spain.
Born into a gypsy family and is considered one of the most important flamenco guitarists.
But despite being so different as they are, Camilo and Tomatito also have much in common.
Camilo you like flamenco, and Tomatito is a jazz enthusiast.
Both enjoy a variety of Latin music.
In Spain one critic said Camilo Tomatito and had met half way.
Tomatito Camilo left Spain and America, and found somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.
Both knew each other since the early nineties, when they met in Spain in a recording session for the group Ketama.
They quickly became friends, but did not begin performing together until 1997, when an organizer of the Festival de Jazz de Barcelona, were asked to perform a concert together.
After that show, they were invited to play together at festivals and flamenco jazz's most important worldwide.
A studio album was inevitable. Spain was the result, which sold thousands of copies worldwide and won a Latin Grammy for Best à album that same year.
In July 2005, the Jazz Festival North Sea in the Netherlands were invited to play an exclusive concert with all sold out and after this wonderful meeting agreed that it was time to explore the second chapter of their shared musical adventure.
It was his close friend, filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who gave them the title for the new album: Spain Again.
The album, which includes his original compositions, a tribute to Astor Piazzolla, jazz standards of and collaboration with the famous singer and songwriter Juan Luis Guerra, he immediately went to the top sales and launched a world tour.
TRAFFIC JAM
Cartagena quartet of musicians who joined in 1997 and create a project under the jazz, Latin jazz and Fusion.
In 1998 they released their first album Traffic jazz.
In January 2010 released the group's last album with ten original songs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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