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Branford Marsalis comes to Cartagena Jazz Festival on Saturday 8 November to present their latest album, 'Four Tunes Mfs Playin'.
Have a biography of intense and difficult saxophonist summarize: from its ability to recreate works of Debussy and Ravel and accompany the best symphony orchestras, to be special guest psychedelic rock group Gratefuldead, Sting or be a member of the acclaimed Jazz Messengers Art Blakey.
Branford Marsalis is part of the aristocracy of jazz and an essential dynasty in the history of music and art in the United States.
Tomorrow Auditorium El Batel, 21:30 pm in a double bill that also participate in the American band Snarky Puppy.
Locations for 18 euros.
Snarky Puppy won the Grammy for Best R & B Performance 2013 for Something, which counted with the collaboration of singer Lalah Hathaway.
Thus confirming the success of their album Family Dinner Vol 1, definitely repeated with the newly released "We Like It Here".
It is an instrumental band based in Brooklyn (New York), although it was founded in Texas by bassist, songwriter and producer Michael League.
It operates as a collective, in which thirty musicians rotate but with a fixed core part, and also maintains a commitment to music education for young people, complementing their tours with practical classes in colleges and universities.
With a deep respect for musical tradition but unafraid of conceptual innovation, Snarky Puppy performs a live show with unprecedented energy and virtuosity.
Its members have collaborated with artists like Erykah Badu, Marcus Miller, The Polyphonic Spree, Snoop Dogg, Roy Hargrove, Morcheeba, Tower of Power, Ari Hoenig / Adam Rogers, Justin Timberlake, Kenny Garrett, Yo-Yo Ma, Lucy Woodward and Bilal and many others.
Musician and won three Grammy Awards and several times nominated for Tony, Branford Marsalis (US, 1960) Awards is one of the most renowned instrumentalists of his time.
He leads one of the finest jazz Quartets today, and a soloist with acclaimed classic bands.
His latest work is titled "Four MFs Playin 'Tunes" and comes to the greatest of Cartagena 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 "Jazz Messenguers" Art Blakey in 1981, and later became part of the group of his brother, who was from 1982 to 1985 . He soon realized that his path in jazz going in another direction and diverging from the line taken 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.
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