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Kevin Mahogany, Dado Moroni & Ulf Wakenius
Date: Saturday July 30
Time: 21: 30h.
Venue: Auditorio Parque Almansa, San Javier
Admission: 15 euros.
The pianist Ellis Marsalis, live jazz from New Orleans and patriarch of the saga most influential modern jazz legend, and Kevin Mahogany, San Javier Jazz Award 2016, starring the closing of the Festival
The great singer of jazz and blues, Kevin Mahogany, considered the best baritone singer live jazz, with two major European jazz, the Italian pianist Dado Moroni and Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius present a concert, own production of Jazz San Javier , on the boundary between jazz and blues
Jazz San Javier receives first to Ellis Marsalis, one of the most important jazz pianists of New Orleans, and a prestigious music educator, master artists such as Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Harry Connick Jr. and his own children, internationally renowned musicians, Wynton, Branford, Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, with which it forms one of the most important jazz strains of North America.
musical icon of the city of New Orleans, Ellis Marsalis is a reference to the musical essence of the capital of Jazz.
Admirer of Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, and Oscar Peterson, Ellis Marsalis has a fantastic but limited discography, with more than a dozen solo albums and many more as a sideman, a job that has always made compatible with teaching at different universities, what has dedicated its greatest efforts becoming a benchmark in teaching jazz.
One of his most outstanding students, saxophonist Jesse Davis, considered the heir to Charlie Parker accompany you on your performance in Jazz San Javier, bassist Darryl Hall next to the drummer Mario Gonzi and.
The last night of the Festival hosts an own production headed by the great jazz singer and blues Kevin Mahogany, who will receive the award for the 19th International Festival Jazz San Javier granted "ex aequo" Kevin Mahogany and Ignasi Terraza in its second part .
Along with Mahogany, two stars of European jazz: the prestigious Italian pianist Dado Moroni and Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, who was a member of the last quartet of Oscar Peterson.
Baritone singer Kevin Mahogany shares origin with great artists who learned the secrets of swing, blues and ballads, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner and Lester Young, all of Kansas City, the legendary jazz metropolis.
In addition to his virtuosity with the voice in the scat, Mahogany stands as one of the most gifted singers of blues jazz, as demonstrated in San Javier Jazz with a concert that moves between both genders.
Mahogany, whose style has been compared to the great jazz singers as Joe Williams and Johnny Hartman, plays the piano, clarinet and saxophone but was in the vocal field in which he surprised critics when it appeared in the 90 renewed vocal influences from recognized himself in Lambert, jazz Hendrichks and Al Jarreau.
In his successful career, including his participation in the film "Kansas City" by Robert Altman in 1996, which gives life to the blues singer Big Joe Turner, he has joined teaching at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston and the University of Miami.
Mahogany visited Jazz San Javier in 2009. Last time, returns in a production of the Festival with the prestigious Italian pianist Since Moroni, who has a long career of 36 years that has played with Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Ray Brown or Ron Carter, among many others, and Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius, known as a member of the last quartet member Oscar Peterson and Ray Brown trio, with 19 albums as a leader of his own groups.
On stage they will be accompanied by two members of the band Ellis Marsalis, drummer Mario Gonzi and bass Darryl Hall.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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