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The singer and songwriter Kurt Elling (USA, 1967) is a cultural icon in America, a character peculiar half poet, half philosopher, who also serves as a writer and music critic.
Not have a very attractive timbre, but Elling know connect with your audience.
This capacity is enough to be on the top of the lists of journals and to attract fans in every concert.
His interpretation is fibrous, fresh and direct.
In just eight years, has become the most important one of the current male vocal jazz.
A musician who lacks a clear musical training but who, nevertheless, made a lot of perseverance, hard work, great intellectual qualities and a curiosity that never sleeps is located in one of the highest rungs of the world of jazz hogging public success and the blessing of the most demanding critics.
After Elling, will be the turn of the outstanding students of Dizzy Gillespie, among whom are James Moody, Slide Hampton, Johnn Lee, Cyrus Chestnut and Willie Jones III, sink to the public from Cartagena Jazz Festival in the classic jazz sounds of yesterday.
The double bill begins at 21:30 am in the Nuevo Teatro Circo tomorrow, Friday 14 November.
Tickets for both concerts cost 15 euros.
Start the evening session with Kurt Elling.
In the year 1995 was the approval of a colossus as Blue Note, one of the most prestigious labels, who edited, with the addition of some issues, a model that Elling present, under the name of Close Your Eyes.
In this work, Kurt shows all his cards: good taste in the choice of repertoire and accompanying (in front of which stands his inseparable Laurence Hobgood) great poetic talents in writing lyrics and flirting with the beat generation, brilliant use of scat and a way to play in the vein of Mark Murphy and, finally, a weathered vocal technique at various venues in the city of Chicago that includes very specific details especially in terms of dynamics is concerned.
Achieving a Grammy Award nomination in his first job is not something that any musician can boast, but Kurt Elling, to date, has managed nominations in each of their albums, to the tune of six.
Their second album The Messenger came to confirm the expectations placed on her first CD and gave a botefada to those who thought it was a star one day.
After three studio albums Kurt Elling undertook the production of its first live CD and chose, how could it be otherwise, the Green Mill in Chicago, the jazz club that is playing weekly whenever his increasingly frequent tours allow it.
For the occasion had Jon Hendricks, teacher and father of vocalese, and a native of Chicago saxophonist Von Freeman.
Among the repertoire some of her past and some new compositions.
You saved experiments such as Resolution, vocalese on Coltrane's original, and Dolores Dream of 16 minutes duration for a Live In Chicago - Out Takes that can only be purchased through their website (see our links section) and Recommended only for lovers of avant-garde listeners.
Flirting With Twilight still in the tone of his previous studio album included a new tax but the trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross to include Lil 'Darlin'.
His latest project, Man In The Air, Elling brings their first albums but less histrionic and more mature in addressing issues of Metheny, Hancock, Coltrane and Zawinul and is without a doubt, his best album to date.
In addition to his singing career developed extensive work as a writer working on various projects for theaters and has proven to be an entrepreneur (and corporate) first-line grouping around him with Jon Hendricks, Mark Murphy and Kevin Mahogany with a project presented under the name of Four Brothers and what happened in Spain last summer.
After Elling will be the turn of a quintet of luxury because Dizzy Gillespie indicated he still remembers what it was, one of the largest in the world jazz.
Gillespie was the great pioneer of be-bop, Afro-Cuban and bent trumpet.
Considered by many as the second giant after Louis Armstrong, needed to express a big band composer and arranger.
Its tradition is still alive, fueled enthusiasm for the five figures in Cartagena Jazz Festival will meet and where certain issues such as 'Salt Peanuts', 'Groovin High', 'A Night in Tunis' and many other extraordinary compositions that have long glory to jazz masterfully escaped their memories.
James Moody, a kind of alter ego of Gillespie who was paired with music and comedy, Slide Hampton as one of the finest trombonists of all time accompanied for over forty years to master Gillespie master bassist John Lee about ten years; the incredible and iconoclastic Cyrus Chestnut on piano, many believe it is the best pianist of his generation and Time magazine and one of the most highly regarded jazz drummer Willie Jones III revive current figure of Dizzy Gillespie.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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