Portal de San Javier
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Buddy Whitington & Santiago Campillo
Date: Saturday, July 22
Space: auditorium Parque Almansa, San Javier
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Check-in: 20euros
The supergroup Fourplay opens a night at Jazz San Javier that will end with a great concert of blues and southern rock by Buddy Whitington and Santiago Campillo, with Mauri Sanchís as special guest
Jazz San Javier hosts Fourplay one of the most prestigious all-star jazz fusion bands, whose legend continues to grow 27 years after its formation, with the presence of three of its original members, Bob James, on keyboards, Nathan East , Bass and Harvey Mason on drums, which include the prestigious saxophonist Kirk Whalum, one of the most outstanding virtuosos of the tenor sax of jazz fusion in the United States, which replaces guitarist Chuck Loeb who, due to health problems, Has had to leave the tour.
From its first album, published in 1991 with the same title that gives name to the famous Quartet, Fourplay has explored to the limit the possibilities of the jazz approaching it to other sorts like R & B, pop, funk, obtaining a unique and innovative sound that places to the Band at the origin of jazz fusion.
The virtuosity and creativity of each of its components, which is hard to find in recordings of the greatest artists such as BBKing, Eric Clapton, George Benson, Michael Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Stevie Wonder, among many others, has Favored that the group has made the fusion a style of its own, admired by wide audiences around the world.
The second concert of the night gives way to blues and southern rock, a genre that has a large following among the audience of Jazz San Javier, with the spectacular guitarist and singer of Texas Buddy Whitington, who participates in a project driven by The Festival itself, together with one of the most recognized blues rock guitarists in Spain, Santiago Campillo, a founding member and former M-Clan guitarist, and organist Mauri Sanchis, a virtuoso keyboard player and Hammond B3.
Buddy Whitington began playing guitar inspired by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and John Mayall in whose band "The Bluesbreakers" ended up playing as a solo guitarist for 15 years in the place that had previously occupied other guitar greats like Eric Clapton , Peter Green or Coco Montoya, who happened in the band.
Whitington, heavily influenced by John Mayall, has since continued to play in different formations and has recorded his own albums consolidated as one of the most representative musicians of the southern rock American.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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