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In addition, street jazz, jam session and presentation of the book by Fernando Navarro |
Comes the third week of the Cartagena Jazz Festival.
For these days, the festival organized by the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena, has scheduled a large male voices in jazz today and José James Kurt Elling, Friday, November 13, and the double bill with trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and bassist Esperanza Spalding, Saturday November 14.
In addition, on Thursday 12th there will be a jam session with Traffic Jam in Mister Witt cafeteria, in the same place, a day later, the journalist of El País Fernando Navarro presented his novel Martha, music for remembrance and Sunday 15 in the square Icue street Mood Swing jazz.
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 homage 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.
Cafeteria Mister Witt will host on Thursday November 12 at 22:00 a jam session starring Traffic Jam.
Cartagena quartet musicians coming together in 1997 under a common concern: jazz.
A year later and they recorded their first self-produced CD (Traffic Jazz), framed in a language of their own songs in jazz, Latin jazz and fusion.
Traffic Jam has taken part in the late night performances in different editions of our festival.
After several year hiatus, the group returns to work revisiting some of the old compositions and focusing on new creations and compositions in jazz today.
This training also works alongside the interpretation of jazz standards with a wide repertoire of songs swing, bossa-nova, latin jazz.
Fernando Navarro come Friday to Cartagena Jazz Festival to present her novel Martha, music to remember.
Fernando Navarro (Madrid, 1981) is editor of the newspaper El Pais and regular contributor to the SER, the cultural supplement Babelia and magazines Route 66, Efe Eme and Rolling Stone.
At home, he is the author of The Road American music blog.
66 rpm in the editorial, signed the book Broken Chords and now published his first novel, Martha.
Music memory, a story in which the young Javi innocence reminds Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, but in the passages of his adult life, reminds us with his reflections to Rob Fleming in High Fidelity.
On Sunday November 15 the festival will return to the street Mood Swing trio of musicians dedicated to the spirit of Cartagena swing.
His repertoire includes standards of the American Songbook but also boogie-woogie and touch the old Spanish speaking Jelly Roll Morton, besides successes of past versions of their particular swing pop filter.
After many years of playing together in this and many other adventures, Lucas Albaladejo (piano), Rafael Hernández (bass) and Leo Sanchez (guitar and vocals) are known to perfection and show combines experience with surprise.
Music to raise hearts without losing his composure.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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