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Chick Corea, Patti Smith, Richard Hawley, Melody Gardot, Stacey Kent, Paquito D'Rivera, Christian Scott, Tindersticks and Andrew Bird, pass through the Cartagena Jazz Festival, which this year turns 32, and expands its dates, going from October 24 to December 1.
Festival will have two headquarters, Nuevo Teatro Circo and Auditorium and Convention Centre, the Tender, and it will be divided into two parts: the first more focused on pop, rock and folk, and the second to classic jazz.
Kicking off on Wednesday will give the British band Tindersticks and, a day later, on Thursday 25 October, Richard Hawley.
Tickets and subscriptions for the entire festival, 70 euros, on sale for a month.
More information www.jazzcartagena.com
Tindersticks will be responsible for opening the Cartagena Jazz Festival 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 to Cartagena with the album The Something Rain.
The band debuted in 1993 with Tindersticks I, an album which 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 Rain (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.
Hawley is one of those singers, rockers, old school that sees each disk own distinct way.
Despite his young age (44 years) English already 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.
On November 17 will be the turn of Melody Gardot.
The Cartagena Gardot acted in the same day that the Spanish team won the World Cup.
Date you will never forget for their performance characteristics.
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 jazz today, Stacey Kent, returns to Cartagena.
From the stage of the Auditorium The Tender, Stacey made ​​a fresh interpretation of the most emblematic songs of his repertoire focusing on some of the themes of his later works Raconte-moi (2010-Full in French), and the recently opened Dreamer In Concert ( October 2011) which reflects their live performance May this year at the hall La Cigale in Paris.
On November 24, two well-known and visited Cartagena Festival.
A big sax, Paquito d'Rivera and a young trumpeter who left 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 Black Indians of New Orleans.
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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