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Chick Corea, Patti Smith, Richard Hawley, Melody Gardot, Luciana Souza, Paquito D'Rivera, Christian Scott, and Andrew Bird Tinderstick, pass through the Cartagena Jazz Festival, which this year turns 32, and wide their dates, from 24 October to December 1st.
After 32 years, the Cartagena Jazz Festival has become one of the most traditional of the country, by the great figures who have passed, and this year maintaining quality and its two venues, the New Theatre and the Auditorium The Circus Batel, whose lockers are on sale tickets, announced the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, during the presentation of the festival.
In addition, they have also released for sale 200 tickets at 70 euros each, which see all performances and can be purchased, as the other entries in the box office, by phone or online.
At the presentation ceremony also attended by the director of the Festival, Francisco Martin, and director of La Opinión, Paloma Reverte, means it continues to focus on as a sponsor.
For Martin, to accommodate other types of music, and jazz, can reach a wider audience through an unorthodox and eclectic programming, hence the festival is divided into two parts, the first, with more pop, folk and rock, and the second, predominantly jazz.
The budget that the festival has this year is 180,000 euros.
A PROGRAM FULL OF STARS
Responsible for opening the Cartagena Jazz Festival Tindersticks will be on Wednesday, October 24 at the New Theatre Circus.
The Nottingham sextet revered accumulates two decades of precious pop, chamber music and detailed, and come with the album The Something Ram.
The band debuted in 1993 with Tindersticks 1, an album that already showed many of the traits that would mark his career, arranged by and for foodies and baritone Stuart Staples varnishing songs that are released, no muss in crescendos and trouser stripe always in place before the paths traced by Serge Gainsbourg and Lee Hazlewood.
The British are living its second youth.
His initial triplet disc remains in memory as one of the most illustrious chapters orchestrated pop, three works magna 90 in which the band led by Staples reached heights reserved only giants like Scott Walker.
Its neoclassical elegance has also great times to film music, especially in the films of director Claire Denis.
After a short break and lineup changes since 2008 have resumed a career that far from losing interest, definitely takes flight with The Something Ram (2012), an album in which resume their sound and added new shades.
After a stint in the Primavera Sound and make formal presentations of their Standing At The Sky's Edge, returns to our country, to Cartagena, on Thursday October 25, the great Richard Hawley, one of those singers, rockers, old school that sees each disk own distinct way.
Despite his young age, 44 years, English and has a discography own paths much dilated.
A seasoned artist in the size of bands Pulp and The Longpigs that give meaning to direct staff of Sheffield.
Not one but can put Hawley's career since the quality always rewarded.
On Sunday November 11, and in the section more pop-folk-rock festival, will perform at the Teatro Circo New Andrew Bird.
He will presenting his latest and intimate album, Break It Yourself.
This multi instrumentalist from America combines the best of the American scene with musical training first division.
Violin to guitar, the 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-tinged pop music classics.
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 epitome of cool, an artist who writes, sings, paints, does photography and poetry, a radical in the best sense of the word back to Cartagena for the presentation of the eleventh LP his illustrious career, titled dog Banga in honor of Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita.
A full-fledged intellectual.
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.
EI 17 November will be the turn of Melody Gardot.
The Cartagena Gardot and acted in the same day that the Spanish team won the World Cup, never forget that date by the characteristics of their performance.
Comes years later when he is one of the great jazz divas.
His voice and exquisite delicacy with which accompanies 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, petting the audience with their fantastic versions of classic evergreen jazz and blues sound with their compositions.
Comes to introduce The Abscene Cartagena, its most sensual album to date.
In leaning on the bossanova and ethnic rhythms.
That same day, another of the great voices of contemporary jazz, Brazilian Luciana Sousa first visit Cartagena, and demonstrate why it has been chosen to work with greats like Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bobby McFerrin, Maria Schneider, Danilo Perez ...
It will come with two discs from the oven The book of Chet which pays tribute to the great Chet Baker and Duet III, Sau Paulo where the trilogy that has reinterpreted the traditional songs of his native Brazil.
On November 24, two well-known and visited Cartagena Festival.
A big sax, Paquito D'Rivera and trumpeter who left a young audiences for years with his mouth open Cartagena, Christian Scott.
The Cuban Paquito D'Rivera Quintet training comes in to play the album Funk Tango, which won the Grammy for Best Latin Jazz.
Meanwhile Christian Scott has become one of the most secure values ​​of current jazz and considered the heir milesdavidiana accredited school.
Scott has its own discourse, lively and straightforward, inspired both the classical and jazz masters of all time the type Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Radiohead.
Despite having not yet 30, already has four works published.
In 2010, Edison won the award for Best International Jazz Artist and was nominated for a Grammy as a trumpeter, composer and producer of jazz.
Vienna to present Christian Cartagena aTunde Adjuah, a tribute to the culture of their ancestors, the New Orleans Black lndians.
The closing of the Cartagena Jazz Festival will be on 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 about these three together will delight jazz lovers.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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