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The Cartagena Jazz Festival makes its final point on Saturday November 22 at its twenty-eighth edition.
Fifteen dates have passed by the boards of the Nuevo Teatro Circo, with a large attendance.
The festival will be closed in a double feature that sums up perfectly the essence of it, an open meeting where heterodoxy and orthodoxy of jazz come together.
Bugge Wesseltoft, one of the foremost exponents of advanced electronic jazz, and the magical voice of Diane Schuur, say goodbye to this issue.
The pianist Bugge Wesseltoft (Norway, 1964) has been for the last ten years one of those agitators of the electronic and nu-jazz European has contributed more luster.
Apprentice to the side of Jan Garbarek, the pianist also helped revolutionize Scandinavian dance music for exquisite taste, an operation that culminated in his acclaimed album and New conception of jazz project.
It is one of the foremost exponents of future jazz, country at the crossroads of jazz fans who prefer advanced electronic rhythms.
In his latest work, the solo piano shines.
The Cartagena Jazz Festival welcomes this genius, founder and head of the Jazzland label.
Again surprised everyone with his performance based on IM, where a grand piano, some discreet electronic effects and talent make the perfect team.
Bugge Wesseltoft (pronounced Boogie), Norwegian, not a DJ who is devoted to nu-jazz, is a musician, a pianist with a reputation (interested in synthesizers, electronic instruments and computer), composer and producer.
A musician who knows all too well the scenarios jazz clubs around the world, has collaborated with traditional jazz artists whose music has been compared to Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Eric Satie (which gives an idea in its category).
His music is the perfect definition of nu-jazz, electronic jazz.
In his hands, it seems that the electronics and jazz were born to merge.
The combination is such that it is not known if the accompanying electronics, jazz, jazz, or if the accompanying electronics.
In fact, his music is halfway between electronic and acoustic, as though some of the music is planned, improvisational determines the outcome.
Bugge has become the reference artist in the world of nu-jazz, a musician who has been anticipated for several years and brings the jazz of the future.
It is definitely a jazz musician who wanted to reinterpret the jazz exploring new languages.
All without leaving the sound of classic jazz, with both getting like nu-jazz lovers and followers of traditional jazz.
Is a musician who, despite being open to new music (not hesitate to call famous DJs to collaborate on your disks), does not deny its inception.
His father was a famous jazz guitarist, and he was very young, listening to Kind Of Blue, Miles Davis.
As a musician, was himself influenced by Miles Davis, John Scofield and Herbie Hancock, and by the Norwegian masters.
Long before starting his solo recording career, he worked with many of the great international jazz musicians and rock stars and DJ "s, and toured worldwide.
Between 1990 and 1993 was part of the band "s band Arild Andersen, Terje Rypdal The Quintet and Jon Eberson" s Jazzpunkensemble.
In 1993 participated in the recording of the album Arv, Arild Andersen "s, for a record year, with Sidsel Endresen (which would be the beginning of a fruitful collaboration), the LP Nightson (piano and synthesizer by Bugge, lyrics and vocals by Endresen) to seal Act music.
The same label released his first solo album: It "s snowing on my piano (1997).
1995 is a key date for Bugge Wesseltoft: form his own band, New conception of jazz, he founded the label Jazzland Recordings (which he owns) and recorded his first CD with his new band: New conception of jazz.
This work, with an explicit title, immediately becomes a phenomenon, not so much sales, but critical.
With this new combination of jazz and electronics, never heard so far, surprised the jazz fans and interested followers of the electronics of a nascent style: electro-jazz.
A successful blend of landscapes synthesizer, techno music influenced by jazz and groove.
Thanks to this long-term won the Norwegian Grammy for best jazz recording of the year in 1996.
After two years dedicated to presenting live and your hard work in the recordings of musicians like Billy Cobham and Jan Garbarek "s (Rites) in 1998 released two great albums.
The first is Duplex ride, again in collaboration with Sidsel Endresen (Bugge is responsible for the acoustic piano, synthesizer and percussion, while puts Endresen lyrics and vocals), Stamp Act for the music.
The second is Sharing, his second solo with the New conception of jazz band.
Duplex is a hard ride with music was lyrical, minimalist, in which the issues are dramatically reduced to essentials, while Sharing is a sequel to New conception of jazz, settling on the same basis: warm sound, attach great importance to melodies (Bugge claims to be a romantic).
On the other hand, the theme You Might stay, remixed by Andreas Dorau, becomes a hit in Germany and was invited by Gilles Peterson on his World Wide Show, Radio One (BBC), to interpret three live tracks.
You have to wait two years to hear their penultimate album to date, Moving (2001), distributed throughout the world with some success and critical acclaim.
Stylistically, it is an evolution of their particular electronic jazz.
A pearl of contemporary jazz that gives free rein to their imagination.
Their best album to date.
His discography followed enriched with a new collaboration with Sidsel Endresen.
His third album was titled Out in common here.
In There, and listening to the intimate connection is musical evidence that these two musicians have achieved.
Take over ten years of collaboration, and, say stakeholders, the collaboration will last for many years.
New conception of jazz to become a classic, editing the New Conception of Jazz album live, with songs recorded live in places like Paris, Amiens, Cologne.
The live tracks gives an unusual freshness in which Bugge exploits its great capacity for improvisation.
In late 2003 Bugge record which is the last CD to date: Film Ing (released in early 2004), which is a natural continuation to his previous line of electro-acoustics.
In 2007 arrives in stores on Public direct burst out, recorded with Laurent Garnier, and his new album, IM.
Bugge has meant that DJs like Gilles Peterson, Jose Padilla, Mixmaster Morris or collective Body and Soul follow closely pinched his compositions and his thematic concerns.
Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur (Seattle, 1953) blind because of a medical mistake at birth, began to sing almost before he could talk and debuted in public at seven years.
Started from a small interested in listening jazz piano with Duke Ellington and George Shearing, who helped to perfect his style of piano playing, while it was fixed in the manner of interpretation of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan, to improve their own style.
He has collaborated with musicians such as Ray Charles, Stan Getz, Quincy Jones and BB King among others.
Flagship with their horn-rimmed glasses and stones, Schuur has achieved recognition in Europe that has given the United States.
One of the most important albums of his long career, recorded with singer and blues guitarist BB King, Herat to Herat, the projected internationally.
Is an example of the artist made from work.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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