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It is the novelty of the 35th edition of the festival, which brings back to the stage of El Batel and the Nuevo Teatro Circo the best of world jazz scene, with artists like Benjamin Clementine, Kyle Eastwood, Cassandra Wilson, John Scofield with Joe Lovano and Kurt Elling, who visit us from October 31 to November 22
As every month November Cartagena celebrates its jazz festival, organized by the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena. In this issue we celebrate the 35 years of one of the oldest festivals in Spain, as he recalled during presentation ceremony the mayor, David Martínez, who was accompanied by the director of the festival, Francisco Martin, the editor of La Opinion, Jose Angel Ceron.
From October 31 to November 22, will pass through the stage of the Auditorium The Batel and the Nuevo Teatro Circo, leading figures in jazz, as Benjamin Clementine, Silvia Perez Cruz, Iron & Wine, Richard Bona, GoGo Penguin, John Scofield with Joe Lovano, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, Jose James, Ibrahim Maalouf, Esperanza Spalding, CMQ Big Band Playing Benny Moré, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quintet, Kyle Eastwood and Jorge Pardo Flamenco Summit featuring Latin jazz with Jerry Gonzalez Javier Colina, Antonio Serrano, Candy, Rycardo Piranha S. Moreno and Israel.
This edition will be new parallel to the festival with street music programming, the great novelty, jam session, presentations of books and music journalists.
The festival organization has, since Wednesday, sold 200 tickets for the festival at 75 euros, which would each concert at 8 euros, an almost symbolic price given the quality of the artists indicated Paco Martin.
Tickets, priced, single, between 18 and 25 euros, are available both at the box office of the New Circus Theatre and the Auditorium The Batel.
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Program full of STARS
The jazz festival begins with Benjamin Clementine. In his broken voice, piano keys that accompany their cries, there is a hypnotic mystery.
Clementine is a difficult riddle to decipher, which was enjoyed in Cartagena, the Sea of ​​Music 2014, in his first performance in Spain.
He had not yet submitted their first job At Least For Now, in which opens this Cartagena Jazz Festival on Saturday 31 October. After Benjamin, in a double bill, act Silvia Perez Cruz featuring Silvia between ropes where the ampurdanesa singer performs topics arranged for the occasion, accompanied by a group of five strings.
Iron & Wine is the folk music project led by American singer-songwriter Sam Beam.
Compared with artists like Nick Drake, Neil Young and Elliott Smith, Iron & Wine will come to Cartagena accompanied only his acoustic guitar and his warm voice to provide an intimate concert in which he will enjoy his exquisite repertoire folk, from their classics to new compositions.
The day of Friday, November 6 is completed by Richard Bona with his band.
Great bassist, composer, lead singer exceptional.
Returns to the festival one of those bass players who hear the first album Jaco Pastorius changed his life and now, in turn, also changes the lives of all who listen first.
On Saturday November 7, promises and legends will come together, and that GoGo Penguin John Scofield and Joe Lovano with Ben Street and accompanied by Bill Stewart will perform at the Auditorium The Batel.
The trio of Manchester Gogo Penguin is considered one of the new star of British jazz groups scene.
The band has a unique ability to develop and synthesize their own melodies, creating a very personal style that incorporates elements of electronic music, trip-hop, jazz, rock and classical music.
On the other hand, there is little to say about these two legendary figures of jazz, John Scofield considered one of the best guitarists in the world, like Joe Lovano on saxophone.
It Come Sunday, November 8 the great Cassandra Wilson.
It is a voice ebony jazz all the words that she, rather than sing, recite.
Respectful of tradition, say voice always comes as a new breath because in addition to a performer, he is above all creative.
It gives a good account his new recording project, which starting with a vowel legend as Billie Holiday, amateur discovers the best Cassandra Wilson.
It will present in Cartagena, in his only performance in Spain, Comming Forth by Day.
On Friday, November 13th is the night in which festival hosts two of the best male jazz vocalists of the moment: Kurt Elling and José James.
You need little introduction Kurt Elling, considered the number one jazz vocalists of modernity.
He comes to the festival with his latest album Passion World.
For his part, José James presented Yesterday I had the blues, her tribute to Billie Holiday in the centenary year of the birth of Lady Day.
He born in Beirut in a family of artists and intellectuals trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf.
In his music and his playing influences of Arab culture they are perceived, which incorporates ingredients from jazz, funk and electronic music with a score full of strength, beauty and nuances.
It will be on Saturday November 14 in a double bill with Esperanza Spalding, singer, songwriter and bassist who comes to Cartagena to present his new project Emily¿s D + Evolution.
Considered despite his youth one of the great jazz artists of today, it was the first jazz artist won a Grammy for best new artist in 2011.
Jorge Pardo is one of the world reference in terms of jazz and flamenco is concerned, while he received the award for Best European Musician by the French Jazz Academy in 2013.
Two years later he presented in Cartagena with a musical encounter tall: The Latin Jazz Flamenco Summit accompanied by Jerry Gonzalez, Javier Colina, Antonio Serrano, Candy, Rycardo Moreno, Israel S. Piranha.
Big band the night of Friday 20 November, since after the combo Jorge Pardo will be the turn of CMQ Big Band Playing Benny Moré, where a band will play the great songs of universal Cuban Benny Moré.
The Kitty, Daisy and Lewis brothers coming on Saturday November 21.
The Durham brothers debuted surprised when, in his early teens with a vintage sound anchored in the era of rock and roll and rhythm and blues.
A vocation that accentuate your look with prominent toupees and suede shoes.
The festival concludes on Nov. 22 with performances by the tandem of Andrea Motis and Joan Chamorro two separate generations jazz, but teacher and student are at present one of the greatest exponents of jazz homeland.
Behind them, accompanied by his band, Kyle Eastwood comes to present Time Pieces, an album in which he pays homage to the jazz bands of the 50s and 60s of last century.
Clint Eastwood's son will put an end.
STREET JAZZ
This commemorative edition, the Jazz will go out.
The first four Sundays in November shall, for free, in the Plaza del Icue port city at 13:00, the bands Troupers Swing (November 1.) Kouroi Jazz (8 nov.), Mood Swing (15 nov.) and American Pie (22 nov.).
Moreover, Mr. Witt host cafeteria on Thursday November 12 a jam session in Cartagena Traffic Jam Band with special guests.
It will host cafe where music and lyrics shake hands because music journalists Victor Lenore, Fernando Navarro and Jose Manuel Gomez Gufi present their books.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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