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Chantz Powell Meets Shakin'All
Date: Saturday, July 1
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Space: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Admission: 15 Euros
Jazz San Javier presents its own production with New Orleans musician Chantz Powell along with the Barcelona band Shakin'All on a night that will open the singer Charenee Wade, one of the new values ​​of vocal jazz
Jazz San Javier offers on Saturday night two great concerts with outstanding artists from the new generations of the international jazz scene.
Charenee Wade, one of the youngest jazz singers in the world today, will be the first with a debut concert in San Javier in which she will demonstrate why she is one of the new and great talents of world jazz-soul.
It will be followed by the multifaceted artist of 29 years Chantz Powell, exponent of the new generation of musicians of New Orleans, singer, trumpeter, dancer and actor that participates in a own production of the Festival next to the Barcelona band Shakin 'All, that promises an explosion Of Swing, Rhythm & Blues and traditional Jazz of New Orelans.
Vocalist Charenee Wade, whose timbre has been compared by critics with that of Betty Carter or Sarah Vaughan, holds credentials such as being one of four talents chosen to be part of Dianne Reeves' Musicians Workshop at Carnegie Hall, Or become the first finalist in the International Vocal Competition "Thelonius Monk", among others.
Wade, who is also a songwriter, arranger and teacher at the Aaron Copland School of Music, has recorded two albums "Love Walked" and "Offering: The Music of Gil Scott.heron & Brian Jackson", a tribute to the work of the damned poet Of soul, and one of its influences, Gil Scott Heron.
The critique has highlighted Charenee Wade's dominance of classical jazz along with personal dynamics and nuances that result in a style with which she approaches jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" or "Sotfly, as in a Morning Sunrise", including In his first work.
He also highlights his contribution to jazz-soul, an area in which he tackles the work of Gil Scott-Heron, the poet and musician who brought a more political vision to soul and jazz with lyrics in favor of African-American activists and social criticism , Who died at the age of 62 in 2011. In her long awaited Jazz San Javier concert, Charenee Wade will be accompanied by a trio composed of piano, bass and drums.
The second part of the night promises to lift the audience from the seat with a production of the Festival that unites the multifaceted New Orleans artist Chantz Powell and the Barcelona band Shakin'All whose concerts become a party for lovers of good music.
Chantz Powell updates the influence of several generations of American musicians with a result that the critics have defined as a mix between Sammy Davis Jr. and Usher.
The brilliant trumpeter is also a great singer, dancer and actor.
He has performed as a guest artist with The Duke Ellington Jazz Orchestra and The Dizzy Gillespie Jazz Orchestra and starred in a documentary "The Child of Jazz and Chance It", which shows the progression of a jazz student teenager to an experienced professional Along with his teachers, one of whom was Wynton Marsalis himself.
Chantz Powell will perform at Jazz San Javier in an own production of the Festival, premiered in Spain, along with one of the most charismatic bands in the Spanish scene, the Barcelona Shakin 'All, a lineup composed of seven renowned Barcelona jazz musicians, Of different jazz formations that have come together to play the best international vintage music located on the border of Jazz, Blues, and Rock n 'Roll.
The trombonist and conductor Dani Alonso leads the band specializing in themes from the 30s and 40s, with versions of Louis Jordan, Ray Charles, or Fats Domino, among many others.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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