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It will be on September 17 when programming is complete |
Cartagena in November is jazz.
This year's jazz festival in the port city turns 34, one of the oldest Spanish territory, and will do so with names like the great American saxophonist Branford Marsalis and Gregory Porter, accompanied for the first time in Spain by a Symphony Orchestra The Region of Murcia.
Also on this scenario the jazz revelation Zara McFarlane recent years and one of the most iconic female artists of the American indie Cat Power.
The complete program will be presented on September 17.
This year's edition will be held from 6 to November 22, with more than twelve groups.
Ticket sales will be held from 19 September and as usual it will sell a credit for all programming.
ARTISTS
Musician and won three Grammy awards and several times nominated for Tony, Branford Marsalis (USA, 1960) awards is one of the most renowned instrumentalists of his time.
He leads one of the finest jazz quartets today and an acclaimed soloist with classic bands.
His most recent work is titled Four MFs Playin¿ Tunes comes to Cartagena and the largest of the Marsalis on Saturday November 8 with the show An evening with Branford Marsalis.
Like his brothers, saxophonist born into a family and an extraordinary and exceptional musical atmosphere.
His father, the patriarch of the Marsalis family, pianist Ellis Marsalis, is still today one of the most celebrated jazz pianists born in New Orleans.
Branford, was released along with his brother the extraordinary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis at the heart of the Art Blakey Jazz Messenguers in 1981, and later became part of the group of his brother, who was between 1982 and 1985 Soon realized their way into the jazz going in another direction and diverging from the line launched by Wynton, he began his own solo career, while the magnificent collaborations with other musicians, such as working with Sonny Rollins or the same Miles Davis in the last stage of his career, as part of his quintet.
His devotion to the saxophone is absolute and is capable of playing tenor, soprano, or high, to the point of being one of the great contemporary virtuosos of this instrument.
Will Gregory Porter inaugurate the Cartagena Jazz Festival accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia. Gregory Porter (Los Angeles, 1971) always cover your head and ears with a hat hoodies as a sign of recognition has become in a few years one of the great figures of vocal jazz.
He has earned the admiration of the public and critics.
It has only three albums.
The most recent published in 2013 Liquid Spirit, with whom he won a Grammy.
Porter is the voice that has revolutionized the jazz firmament in recent years.
His throat drink of soul, blues and jazz to melt an irresistible alloy.
His live shows are impeccable.
He was recognized for his interpretive power, and is also trained as an actor.
Cartagena Jazz Festival Comes to a very special night, which sounded great Porter songs accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Murcia.
Be the first time that American acted in Spain accompanied by a symphony.
It will also be his only performance in Spain on Thursday, November 6.
The last hope of vocal jazz is a Jamaican-born British fan of Nina Simone, Zara McFarlane, acting for the first time in Spain in Cartagena on Friday 7 November.
The first thing that stands out is his name.
Then, of course, warm and sensual voice with a childlike touch, enveloping the listener in a sea of ​​sensations.
And behind it, a song written in the first person singular;
those of their new album If You Knew her.
For much of the criticism, the best that has given the British jazz & soul in decades.
He was born 30 years ago near London, in a family of Jamaican origin.
Future new queen of British jazz debut at age 14 in a TV show with an imitation of American Lauryn Hill.
Zara learned all he knows from books: a diploma in Popular Music and Jazz and Improvisation from the University of West London and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, respectively If You Knew Her is their second album after Until tomorrow (2011)..
For recording has retold the invaluable collaboration of producer and radio DJ Gilles Peterson.
According to the British review, the best of jazz and soul of this country in decades.
One of the most iconic American indie female artists also arrive this November Cartagena.
Chan Marshall, the singer who hides under the seal of Cat Power, will be on Saturday November 15 at the festival.
Their first album, Dear Sir, came out in 1995, with the support of Steve Shelley, drummer for Sonic Youth, and Tim Foljahn of Two Dollar Guitar, who also encouraged him to record his second album.
In 2003 he came You Are Free, one of the most recognized works of Cat Power discography that experimented with different vocal and beats drawn from the urban sounds of ways.
Also, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) took care of the vocals and Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) battery.
The boost global reach in 2006 with The Greatest, another jewel in his discography, with songs like Where Is My Love or giving him the title theme of the film star of My Blueberry Nights Wong Kar-Wai. Sun, his latest work and the ninth of his career came in 2012 after six years without releasing original material.
Created and produced entirely by the artist, is probably the most personal album to date Cat Power.
Marshall named it a renaissance, and that this is a confident, charismatic and ambitious work with an overwhelming stylistic variety.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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