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Kyle Eastwood, one of the best double bass players on the current jazz scene, will star in the first concert of the night at Jazz San Javier where he premieres accompanied by his usual quintet.
With 19 years of solo career and nine discs published, Kyle Eastwood is also an excellent composer and arranger of soundtracks like "Mystic River", "Million Dollars Baby" or "Gran Torino" among others, all of his father, the actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, great jazz enthusiast and regular at the Monterey Jazz Festival, who had Kyle as a child transmitting a taste for a genre he has cultivated ever since.
His latest and recent album "In Transit", summarizes a career in progression that places him at the head of contemporary jazz, with his own eclectic style in which he combines his original compositions and wishes to experiment with the memory of the classics he listened to. as a child at home.
Count Basie, Monk or Mingus, appear versioned in his celebrated last album, which also includes his admired "Cinema Paradiso" by Ennio Morricone, which symbolizes his particular relationship with the film industry.
In Jazz San Javier will perform with his usual training, with which he recorded "In Transit", and in which the critics have found reminiscent of the spirit of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, composed by Andrew McCormack on piano, Quentin Collins on trumpet, and Brandon Allen on sax, with Chris Higginbottom replacing Ernesto Simpson on drums.
The second concert of the night promises to move the audience to New Orleans, with Big Sam's Funky Nation, its explosive mix of funk, rock, jazz, hip-hop and its irrepressible energy on stage.
The trombonist, singer and songwriter Sammie "Big Sam" Williams, leads this southern band with direct legends that have been proposed to keep alive the flame of funk.
His latest album "Songs in the Key of Funk, Volume 1" (2018) is just the beginning of that mission, he warns "Big Sam", a genuine New Orleans musician who got tanned playing on the street, and in bands as representative of the city like Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
"Big Sam", who has also collaborated with Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, assures that a Funky Nation show is a party.
"That's why we're here," says this musician who balances passion, technique and craft.
The Big Sam's Funky Nation is composed of a group of excellent musicians such as Drew "Da Phessah" Baham (trumpet and singer), Jerry "Jbakk" Henderson (bass), Keenan "Butta Cream" McRae (guitar) and Alfred "Sgt Gutta" Jordan (battery)
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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