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American musician George Benson, "an icon for the San Javier Jazz Festival", where he has performed several times, could not miss the 20th anniversary of the Festival, as announced today by its director Alberto Nieto during the presentation of the poster along with A breakthrough in programming that will feature prominent performances such as two great blues legends, guitarists Taj Mahal and Keb Mo 'who will perform a new album with their band Tajmo': The Taj Mahal & Keb 'Mo' Band.
Another of the confirmations at the XX International Jazz Festival of San Javier from June 30 to July 29 is the saxophonist Charles Lloyd, one of the living legends of jazz history that fell last year. "I Long to See You", which will be presented in quartet formation with three great musicians Gerald Clayton, Reuben Rogers & Eric Harland.
The Festival, which in the absence of closing the program will feature thirteen nights of concerts in the auditorium, and four in the exteriors of San Javier, Santiago de la Ribera and La Manga del Mar Menor, will count as usual with jazz music, mainly , Not to mention the blues, soul, and bossa nova with performances such as that of John Pizzareli and Daniel Jobim, the grandson of the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Together they will offer a concert that will sound the legacy of the great Jobim, along with American Song Book classics, with arrangements by bossa nova, and a tribute to the album "Sinatra-Jobim" which marks the 50th anniversary.
Ramsey Lewis, another well-known old man and Festival Prize, will return to Jazz San Javier with the Electric Band with which he recreates the genuine jazz soul of which he was one of its creators.
The fusion of jazz and bossa nova will also be present with the American singer settled in England Stacey Kent, lover of the Brazilian music, that will be accompanied by its husband the tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson.
The anniversary party will be with Jorge Pardo, a jazz and flamenco musician, saxophonist and flautist, recently awarded the Arts Prize in Spain, and the Best European Jazz Musician Award in France, which will premiere a unique concert designed for Jazz San Javier Accompanied by other musicians by Niño Josele, the most brilliant guitarist of flamenco jazz, Tomasito to dance and sing, and pianist Albert Sanz.
The singer Toni Lynn Washington, considered "the queen of the blues of Boston" also appears in the advance of program known today, next to a superbanda headed by the Italian guitarist, Luca Giordano, with Sax Gordon like special guest to the saxophone, instrument to which Is dedicated the present edition of the Festival.
One of the constants of the Jazz Festival is to support new values, such as the new voice of jazz soul Charenee Wade, a jazz singing teacher with two edited albums, which will offer a tribute to the music of Gil Scott-Heron "The damn soul poet".
Among the treasures to be discovered in the next edition of Jazz San Javier is also Allan Harris, Toni Bennett's favorite singer, one of the last great active crooners.
The fusion jazz will arrive with Patax, a fusion supergroup led by percussionist Jorge Pérez, with a fast-paced proposal in which Latin jazz, funk and flamenco are played, which on this occasion will count as a special guest with the violinist Maureen Choi.
Of the four concerts that will come out of the auditorium has been known to be offered in the Plaza de España Funkystep & The Sey Sisters, with a band of six musicians that began with Etna Sey as a singer and later incorporated her two sisters, Cathy And Yolanda, forming a formidable vocal trio with which they pay homage to the greats of the black music.
The first Deputy Mayor Teresa Foncuberta and the Councilor of Celebrations, Pedro López accompanied the director of the Festival in the presentation, which took place in the City of San Jvaier, where the poster of this edition was discovered, the work of Ramón Torres , Which shows a trumpeter hugging a street lamp, with which he winks at the movies and jazz of the 30s and 40s.
The mayor Pedro López reiterated the municipal commitment for the Jazz Festival "which is among the best in Spain and is already a reference in Europe", and congratulated its director, Alberto Nieto "not only for this year's programming but For the 20 editions ".
Nieto used the 20 years of the Festival to thank the work of all the "previous and current" team of the Festival, as well as the Government team and all political groups of the municipal corporation "for the support they have always shown towards the festival" .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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