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The XXI edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival, taking place from 5 to 26 November, will whet your appetite with some advances in programming and opening concert that has become known as the festival organizers, will emcee the rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson.
It was the first woman to record a theme of rock'n'roll in 1958.
Jack White was rescued from oblivion and produced the album The Party Is not Over.
In his 73 years living a golden moment in his career and opened the show in Cartagena XXI Festival organized by the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena.
The organization has also advanced four names of what will be the XXI edition of one of the most traditional festivals of the country this year will have a sign made ​​up of over fifteen groups and international artists. The complete schedule will be announced in early September and at that time also will be selling tickets for the festival.
Among the participating artists Pat Metheny stands, Ryuichi Sakamoto accompanied by recalling that Jacques Morelembaum 1996, and Fleet Foxes.
Also, it was fellow sufferer of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Carl Perkins and Elvis Costello influences and essential for Bruce Springsteen comes to Cartagena Jazz Festival to present The Party Is not Over, produced by Jack White, founder of groups like The White Stripes and The Racounter.
Between them they have come up with a list of classic rock songs, country and gospel music played by Wanda Jackson with his spectacular voice, accompanied by arrangements of White.
A chance to prove first luxury hand that age is not an impediment.
Despite his 73 years, the singer is in a golden moment of his career and the November 5th show at the opening of the 31st edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
November 16 The act Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of the composers and musicians winners and laureates of the current music scene, and his career has always been known for breaking the barriers between music and technology.
Sakamoto has experimented during his career with diverse musical genres such as pop music, soundtracks and symphonic music.
Founding member of the legendary group Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), Sakamoto has composed soundtracks for films including 18 major productions and independent films: Welcome Mr. Lawrence, The Latest Emperor, The Sheltering Sky or Femme Fatale.
In 1996, Sakamoto released an album under the name '1996 'arranged for piano, cello and violin.
The album included new repertoire as well as new arrangements of his repertoire.
The recording was done with his eternal partner Jacques Morelenbaum the cello and violin.
Now in 2011, Ryuichi Sakamoto has recovered the trio to tour Europe in November with a repertoire that includes new compositions as well as the classic life and great soundtracks.
As usual in Sakamoto's concerts, there will be a carefully staged an elaborate lighting design.
The tour will also coincide with the publication of the book in Spain or suru Ongaku wa jiyu (The music will set you free), the first autobiography by Ryuichi Sakamoto, the result of talks between the artist and the editor of Japanese Engine.
If there is a guitarist who embodies the values ​​of eclecticism, versatility, merger, boldness and brilliance of contemporary jazz, the guitarist Pat Metheny's (Kansas City, 1954).
Winner of 18 Grammy awards, Pat Metheny was a child prodigy who began playing trumpet at age 8 under the influence of his brother Mike.
But even before that, Metheny remembers that in the basement of the house of his maternal grandfather, Delmar musician Bjorn Hansen, discovered an old piano with which he and his cousins ​​played.
It was in that kind of childhood experiences where Metheny incubated extraordinary curiosity about any musical instrument or form, including the innovative classical legacy of Stravinsky, Bartok and Debussy, and in 2010 materialized in 'Orchestrion', an example of its renewed and sophisticated version of the myth of 'man band'.
In this momentous work, by pneumatic and electro technology, the piano keys played the notes marked the musician from the strings of his guitar.
Stepping on a pedal, the tune he had created and he continued to play on it then incorporated battery, timpani or marimba.
Member of a long line of music, at age 12 was launched on the guitar.
At 15, it was professional.
At 19, he was professor at the Berklee School of Boston, where he taught, among others, Al Di Meola.
Metheny, eclectic and virtuoso, has played with nearly every major in every possible row from Jaco Pastorius to Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins from David Bowie, from Steve Reich to Milton Nascimento.
His discography is staggering.
His career, meteoric.
Their strong desire for innovation and research made him a pioneer of technologies.
At Cartagena Jazz Festival, this titan of contemporary jazz reaches the November 20, in one of his most intimate and favorite formations, a trio, with bassist Larry Grenadier (San Francisco, 1966) and drummer Bill Stewart.
(Iowa 1966), two essential players of the American jazz scene in recent decades.
Training as a luxury for a memorable concert.
The nakedness of the trio, the living legend Pat Metheny pure.
Will also be in Cartagena, the boys of Fleet Foxes, on 26 November.
Three years ago, his first album became more than a bestseller: it was a phenomenon.
The media attention of that album of the same name that the band and picked up the painting of Flemish Proverbs Pieter Brueghel the Elder in his home was tremendous.
On both sides of the Atlantic, magazines like Mojo, Uncut, Pitchfork or Rolling Stone alternated between the first and second place best of the year or the names the big surprise of the season.
Mainstream media as the British newspaper The Guardian referred to as "instant classic".
Those young people of Seattle in flannel shirts and ragged beard were the new hype, as they say whites to refer to the latest musical trend.
Fleet Foxes now have the burden of proving that its significance is not temporary.
This concern became an obsession in the minds of Robin Pecknold, lead singer, it took well over the account to complete his anticipated second album, blues Helplessness.
Scheduled for early 2010, announced his departure in November and was completed in April taking this year after rethinking the arrangements and the composition of several songs.
We present in the port city in its European tour.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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