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Chick Corea Trio, Patti Smith, Richard Hawley, Melody Gardot, Tindersticks and Andrew Bird are the first confirmations for the Cartagena Jazz Festival, which this year celebrates 32 years and extended its dates, will run from October 24 to December 1 .
The festival, which will have two headquarters, New Circus Theatre and Auditorium and Convention Center The Batel, will be divided into two parts: one more focused on pop, rock and folk, and the second to classic jazz. The complete program will be presented to early September.
Tiendersiticks be responsible for opening the Cartagena Jazz Festival, on Wednesday October 24 at the New Theatre Cirque de Cartagena.
The revered Nottingham sextet accumulated two decades of precious pop, chamber music and thorough, and come to Cartagena with the album The Rain Something.
The band debuted in 1993 with Tindersticks I, an album that already showed many of the traits that would mark his career, and gourmet arrangements and the baritone voice of Stuart Staples varnishing some songs that are released, without breaking a sweat in the crescendos and stripe pants always in place before the paths traced by Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood.
The British are living a second youth.
His initial triplet record remains in memory as one of the most illustrious chapters orchestrated pop, three works magna of 90 in which the band led by Staples reached heights reserved only giants like Scott Walker.
Its neoclassical elegance has also made great time for film music, especially in the films of director Claire Denis.
After a short break and lineup changes since 2008 have returned to a path that, far from losing interest, takes flight with The Something definitely Rain (2012), an album which resume their sound and add new shades.
After a stint in the Primavera Sound and make formal presentations of their Standing At The Sky's Edge, return to our country, to Cartagena, on Thursday 25 October, the great Richard Hawley.
Hawley is one of those singers, rockers, old school that sees each disk in a proper and distinct.
Despite his young age (44 years) English and has a discography own paths much more dilated.
A seasoned artist in size bands Pulp and The Longpigs which give meaning to direct staff of Sheffield.
Not one but you can put Hawley's career and the quality is always rewarded.
On Sunday 11 November, and in the section more pop-folk-rock festival, will perform at the New Theatre Andrew Bird Circus.
He will presenting his latest and intimate album, Break It Yourself.
This multi instrumentalist from America combines the best of the American scene with a musical background of the first division.
The violin to the guitar, xylophone through their whistles as a fundamental part of their music, all forming a loop on the other to complete their compositions.
A complete artist that is positioned in the difficult step of the classical-tinged pop music.
The jump to the Auditorium The Batel be done with the music icon Patti Smith is on Friday 16 November.
The Smith is the godmother of rock and roll, the personification of cool, an artist who writes, sings, paints, photography and poetry makes a radical in the best sense of the word back to Cartagena for the presentation of the eleventh LP his illustrious career, titled after the dog Banga of Bulgakov's novel Master and Margarita.
An intellectual in the making.
Smith is proud to be part of a generation of rockers eternal, for whose music does not seem to pass the time.
This Renaissance artist, who channels the same inspiration through music poems, is apocalyptic and optimistic.
Cartagena is still remembered in his apotheosis performance in The Sea of ​​Music.
On November 17 will be the turn of Melody Gardot.
The Cartagena Gardot performing in the same day that the Spanish team won the World Cup.
Date you will never forget the characteristics of their performance.
It comes years later when he is one of the great divas of jazz.
Her exquisite voice and the delicacy with which he accompanies on the piano and guitar are well above other recent revelations.
Their first two albums, Worrisome Heart and My One and Only Thrill, have uncovered a unique artist, who caresses the crowd with his fantastic versions of classic evergreen jazz and blues and their sound compositions.
The present Cartagena comes to Abscene, his most sensual album to date.
Which favors the bossanova and ethnic rhythms.
The closing of the Cartagena Jazz Festival will be December 1 and will be borne by the most important figure in jazz today, a living classic, Chick Corea, who is accompanied by two monsters Christian McBride on bass and Brian Blade, the battery.
Little more can be said of these three together will delight jazz lovers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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