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The Incognito band, led by guitarist Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, is one of the best representatives of soul jazz.
His new album 'Amplified Soul' and is evidenced.
An album to get lost in its beautiful, winding songs that celebrate 35 years of life training and coming to present to the Cartagena Jazz Festival tomorrow, Friday November 21 on the penultimate day of the festival.
The concert starts at 21:30, and is selling his last hundred entries.
The Incognito band became famous in the 80s for being one of the greatest exponents of the British acid jazz, accompanied by an infectious danceable funk, always with quality standards that the band founded by Jean-Paul Blue Maunick has demonstrated over the years.
The group comes to Cartagena to present the themes of his latest album Soul Amplifield.
An album to get lost in its beautiful, winding songs that celebrate 35 years of life training.
'Bluey' Maunick is deploying an enviable activity in recent months;
to the release of his first solo album ('Leap of Faith'), and the resurrection of your project Citrus Sun, is now added the new album of his band ever.
We have been many musicians who have passed through this band, but thanks to the clarity of Jean Paul's own ideas, it is clear that with each delivery the stakes are higher, which is always a fantastic news for his fans.
"Amplified Soul" has all the attributes needed to keep attract longtime fans and even extend the range to a younger audience, as the subjects of this work exude an air of modernity imposed new trends, something Not all groups know assume.
Incognito is a personal project of Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick, founder and guitarist and author of most of the compositions of the band.
Bluey Incognito formed in 1980, influenced by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Santana, Eart Wind & Fire or Kool & The Gang.1 The original lineup was led by Bluey himself and bassist Paul Williams, and was also made by the saxophonist George Lee, drummer Jeff Dunn, keyboardist Peter Hinds and percussionist Gee Bello, who with the collaboration of other musicians in the studio to record the debut album of the band, an all-instrumental album "Jazz Funk 'which was presented in 1981.
During the rest of the decade each of the original members of the project took its own path, and Bluey continued writing and producing for other artists while maintaining a job outside of music.
In the late 80s Bluey met Gilles Peterson, the founder of the label "Acid Jazz", who produced the band's second album, "Inside Life" in 1991, released ten years later that the debut album whose training was only Maunick.
The album had the powerful voice of soul diva Jocelyn Brown, and was a great success, bringing the band to the head of the new musical phenomenon known as Acid Jazz and directed by Gilles Peterson, owner of the two most important seals movement: "Acid Jazz" and "Talking Loud".
Since then he has until Bluey time posted a total of twelve studio albums under the name of the project, always with the collaboration of the best musicians in London study, 2 which have been marching on recordings and tours the group with a single exception: The American singer Maysa Leak was the only relatively stable element in various formations for which the band has been temporarily leaving her to start her career in solitario3 to return later.
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