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The Cartagena Jazz Festival, which this year turns 28, begins tomorrow Friday, November 7, its activity based on a schedule, as usual, in the heterodox, with the combination of classic and avant-garde jazz.
Examples are the concerts scheduled for the opening, Matthew Herbert, an icon of electronic music and an essential figure in the current scene, accompanied by a big band in his most jazz, and exquisite Panamanian composer and pianist Danilo Perez along the cool saxophonist Lee Konitz.
If we review the work of British Matthew Herbert (UK, 1972) is no exaggeration to conclude that much of the present and the future of electronic music passing through his hands.
Iconoclastic versatile musician and composer, the man who also hides behind the alias of Dr. Rockit or Radioboy, has emerged as one of the most personal of the turn of the century, regardless of genre or style you do.
Cartagena Jazz Festival inaugurated in another of its aspects, the most jazz, The Metthew Herbert Bing Band, which reviews all assumptions of the genre and brings to his field.
I'm sure that fans of jazz purists will not find it very funny if you look at it a pure sound, but who do not put limits on your listening, certainly not give the evidence.
Perhaps one of the most characteristic of Herbert's music is the use of the sampler to alter sounds of daily life and incorporate them into audible speech.
Following the principles that reflected in his personal manifesto pccom (Personal Contract for the Composition of Music), the label owner also avoids Sample away Accidental compositions by other musicians, rejects the use of default sounds and drum machines and highlights the value of accident the study as an element as important as the conscious decisions.
Another constant in his work is political and social involvement, which is especially reflected in his work as Radioboy: wrappers, cans and other items of daily consumption are used to create the sounds of albums like 'A Machine Drilling For Oil' and 'The Mechanics Of Destruction ', tart criticism of the capitalist system and multinational companies.
But awareness is only one side of the British.
As Dr. Rockit and Wishmountain has toyed with the house, while his role as remixer for artists such as Moloko, REM, The Avalanches, Yoko Ono or John Cage, can be seen in the double CD "Secondhand Sounds" (2002) .
Moreover, throughout his career he has made many compositions for theater, television and film.
In 2001 he published 'Bodily Functions', perhaps his most celebrated album and using sounds from the human body as a unifying element.
This album has the warm voice of Dani Siciliano, to whom he joins a professional relationship, collaborating regularly and Herbert has produced his first album, and sentimental.
Always restless and eager to try new experiences, in 2003, faces a major challenge: working with a big band of 16 musicians from the jazz world.
The result, the album 'Goodbye Swingtime' (2003), could not be more satisfying.
With reference to the current political situation (the Iraq war and the aftermath of 11-S), Herbert manages to renew the sound of the great classics of the genre formations and sign one of his best moments.
After working with Roisin Murphy's debut solo for Britain's latest venture puts on the apron and goes to the kitchen.
Food is the theme of a 'Plat Du Jour' (2005) again filled with social criticism, this time on the quality of the food we consume daily and how they are manipulated by big business.
The dazzling new work by Matthew Herbert, 'There's Me and There's You', is the collection of protest songs most seductive, sophisticated and subversive ever recorded.
Blending lush jazz instrumentation, soulful vocals, fascinating rhythms and a secret arsenal of crazy samples, this album marks the second collaboration between Herbert and his Big Band.
Danilo Perez
Full night's extraordinary Panamanian pianist and composer Danilo Perez (Panama, 1966), who is among the leading musicians of our time.
In little more than a decade, his distinctive blend of Pan-American jazz has given him international recognition and a loyal audience around the world.
He runs his own group since 1990, but from an early age he played and recorded with leading jazz figures such as Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Wynton Marsalis, Gary Burton, Wayne Shorter ...
Many of his albums are considered masterpieces of jazz.
With its music, which sounds including folklore Panamanian Americans are always present, shows a continued interest in the unification of America.
Turn always accompanied by his trio, and this time is compounded by the veteran, a perfectionist, versatile and cool saxophonist Lee Konitz.
Danilo has led his own group since 1990 and has won several awards including three Grammy Award nominations.
In 2002 he received a nomination from the Jazz Journalists Association for "Best Pianist of the Year.
Motherland, the fifth CD of Perez was nominated for two Grammy awards in the category 'Best Latin Jazz Album' and was awarded "Best Jazz Album" by the Boston Music Awards, as well as being named one of the best recordings of the year prestigious magazines as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Diego Tribune, Billboard and Jazz Times.
For more information www.jazzcartagena.com.
Tickets at the box office of the New Teatro Circo Cartagena or through www.ticktackticket.com
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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