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The Cartagena Jazz Festival 2011 has entered its final stretch this weekend with three intense nights of music, voices and show at the Auditorium and Conference Centre The Batel.
On Friday, the large hall opened two of the best voices in African-American jazz, with its unique and personal touch, the great Dee Dee Bridgewater, paid tribute to the figure of Billie Holliday and brought to Cartagena to fans who came from different cities.
The double pass was completed Friday they call the new lady of American music, the young Lizz Wright, gospel sound and religious roots that has captivated critics and audiences with three large studio work.
On Saturday night the stage of El Batel McCoy Tyner received, again the African-American sound with McCoy Tyner on the head and the piano-based blues took over the Jazz Festival Cartagena, accompanied by vocalist Jose James and saxophonist Chris Potter.
Tyner has released for sale over 80 albums under his name, and has won four Grammy Awards.
The auditorium was also on Saturday at the American Madeleine Peyroux, considered one of the greatest vocal talents of today and often compared to the great Billie Holiday by the similarity of her timbre and phrasing timid delighted the seasoned audience.
Finally, the Jazz Festival Cartagena completed the weekend with a performance on Sunday by Pat Metheny, the guitar made ​​man, who took the stage of El Batel to show why has received 18 Grammy Awards for which he has lived together with a guitar for 12 years.
Pat Metheny performed with bassist Larry Grenadier (San Francisco, 1966) and drummer Bill Stewart.
(Iowa, 1966), two essential players of the American jazz scene in recent decades.
The Cartagena Jazz Festival puts its finale on Sunday 26 November, also in the Auditorium El Batel, at 21.30 hours with the Fleet Foxes concert and vetiver.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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