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Brazil is one of the leading musical countries in the world, and Milton Nascimento, one of his most original composers.
As his country, Milton is a mixture of cultures and contrasts.
His music, well rooted in the traditions of his country, has always aroused great interest in artists of jazz.
The greatest have played his creations, like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny and George Duke.
Comes back to La Mar de Músicas to present an exquisite program, accompanied by the Belmondo brothers, contemporary jazz musicians of France's most sought.
The Belmondo, loyal fans of the work of the Brazilian, they padded the most famous works of his idol, and together, accompanied by a string section of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia and a French horn section, amazed at this meeting Transoceanic, a special project of the festival tomorrow, Wednesday July 9 at the Auditorio Parque Torres, at 23:00.
Tickets cost 18 euros.
Of unprecedented moment has rated this valuable meeting between cultures that is Belmondo & Nascimento.
And rightly so.
Just to hear the version of Ponta de Areia de Nascimento, this meeting will have been worthwhile.
Stéphane Belmondo (trumpet and clarinet) has spent years showing that the European jazz can move comfortable in foreign lands.
And there are her past hits: Hymne au Soleil (2003) with music by Lili Boulanger and Maurice Duruflé, arranged the other Belmondo, Lionel (sax and clarinet) for an ensemble of eleven musicians from classical and jazz, and the disc together Influence a legendary American jazz musician, the octogenarian multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, an early influence of Belmondo.
Now, Belmondo been chosen by the vast repertoire of other musicians, Milton Nascimento (Rio de Janeiro, 1942) when they admire for years to record evergreen songs with a clean and exciting arrangements.
Thus emerged Nascimento & Belmondo.
On the album, the string section is that of the Orchestre National d'Ile de France and La Mar de Musicas, in this special project, are the strings of the Symphony Orchestra of the Region of Murcia and guest musicians.
Stéphane, who exchanged the accordion for the trumpet and studied at the Conservatory of Marseilles, has divided his career between Paris and New York.
In the capital gala worked with musicians like Rene Urtreger and Laurent Cugny and big band Lumière.
And that became the fetish solo Michel Legrand, met Chet Baker, assembled a quintet with his brother Lionel and a versatile trio with Dee Dee Bridgewater, who also has toured in the U.S. (where lso played with pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and drummer Al Foster).
In 1999 he returned to Paris, where he recorded with producer and DJ Frédéric Galliano and signed the third album of the Belmondo Quintet or one of the essential albums of the band, Ameskeri, a duo with guitarist Sylvain Luc.
For its part, Nascimento has starred in other magical moments.
Occurred when, after moving to Belo Horizonte to pursue singing, she met Elis Regina, or many years later when she met Sarah Vaughan Brazilian Romance (1987), Grammy for best jazz album, or Angelus, the tribute and recognition from the world of jazz (Herbie Hancock, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter and Pat Metheny and the collaboration of James Taylor and Peter Gabriel) to his work and more specifically to the 1975 album Native Dancer, who came from a proposal by the saxophonist Wayne Shorter , who had met the singer in Rio at the time of Clube da Esquina album in 1972, Nascimento and Lo Borges had recorded with Ronaldo Bastos, Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta, Wagner Tiso.
It is considered one of his personal milestone and a major Brazilian contributions to the history of world music with songs like voçe Tudo that could be, Cais, O trem blue or Nothing will be as before.
Since 2000 the rate of production was reduced.
In 2003 he wanted to pay tribute to his mother Lilia (Nascimento's adoptive parents, white, raised the singer in Minas Gerais) by editing Pieta, which retold with instrumentalists and friends as Hancock and Metheny, and featuring the Tristesse issue, for which he received his last Grammy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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