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The girl in the bass.
She is 24 years.
At only 21, and while other twentysomethings attending classes at the Berklee in Boston to study, she was already giving lectures as a professor at the famous school of the United States east coast.
This young African-American bassist Portland, Ore., that has captivated musicians as Gary Burton, began playing bass at age 15.
He says that because he tried one day and liked it.
So he left the violin forever.
No more.
With the bass in tow, arrived at a blues club in his city.
And he began to improvise with a local band veterans I was looking for new bassist.
Do not know how he did it because he had only two months learning and could barely play bass clef.
A year later he was playing with six or seven groups of all kinds.
La Mar de Músicas who had to move this concert at the Old Cathedral Courtyard by demand for tickets this American artist will be on Monday 20 July at 23.00 hours.
Tickets, $ 10.
Hours earlier, at 20 pm in the Town Hall Square will be the turn of the B'net Marrakech.
Esperanza Spalding, who cites as his favorite bassists Ron Carter and Dave Holland, and its hero Wayne Shorter, has worked with singers and musicians such as Patti Austin and saxophonist Joe Lovano.
After "Junjo" (2006), more of a jazz trio project with his own songs and versions of "The Peacocks", Jimmy Rowles, "Humpty Dumpty", Chick Corea and a tribute to Mompou, Esperanza Spalding published Last year a record more personal and not transferable, "Esperanza", which also plays bass and sings.
"Hope" contains Brazilian songs as "Ponta de Areia", Milton Nascimento, o Samba da Benção ", Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes, which has helped El Niño Josele with his guitar.
Ben Rattliff wrote in "The New York Times" in May last year that one of the main gifts that energy is smooth, vibrant and upbeat, which is on its way melodic bass playing and how it uses elastic your little singing voice.
According to Pat Metheny, who met at Berklee when she was considering throwing in the towel, Esperanza Spalding has that rare X factor that makes it able to convey his personal vision and energy.
MARRAKECH B'net
Five Berber women.
Vocals and percussion, with a stringed instrument.
And the magnetism of some love songs and rhythms revolt over chaabi, rai or music Gnau, Houara, Ferda or robi.
For them the rhythmic complexities not daunted.
The writer William Burroughs described the music of the Berbers as a rock band than 4,000 years.
Marrakech B net "(ie, Marrakesh girls) come from very humble Berber families, originating Bouara region, a fertile plain at the gates of the desert.
In the singing of Berber women used to mark important moments in life.
She spent more than three decades singing and have performed in places like Paris or Rome.
First they called "net Houariyat B and were released at weddings and baptisms in the popular quarters of Marrakech.
There he discovered them in 1990, a French producer.
And Rachid Taha called them in 2000 for her album "Made in Medina".
Their songs are Berbers call and response on percussion instruments such as darbuka bendir and the "caraqueb-doubles" large metal castanets music features tubsil Gnaoua-or metal-plate struck with the fingers.
For Gnaoua music chaabi or used in addition to string instruments like the Do Guembri "three-stringed lute, long-neck-and-" "kamantché violin.
They are bold because Gnaoua music is only for men.
And they know the beauty secrets of the henna.
Aziza Ait Zouina, who plays stringed instruments, and the singer Halima Chamkhi, say his three pals are pepper and salt, while they Bakkou-Fatima, Fatima Malih and Malika Mahjoubi-would be the spices.
Malika is the main voice and dancing with a tray of tea cups with candles on their heads.
Javier Losilla critic wrote after one of his performances, which is like the paradise of Allah, but houris.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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