Portal de San Javier
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Featuring: Niño Josele,] | 20th International San Javier Jazz Festival |
Tomasito, and Albert Sanz
Houston Person All Star Sextet.
Featuring: Dena Derose, Jim Rotondi & Kevin
Mahogany
Date: Friday, July 28
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Space: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Entry: 20Euros
Jazz San Javier presents two greats of the saxophone, Jorge Pardo with a special project for the 20th anniversary of the Festival and Houston Person with his All Star Sextet featuring Kevin Mahogany, Jim Rotondi and Dena Derose
The saxophonist, flautist and composer Jorge Pardo, one of the most recognized jazz musicians in Spain, leads a special project conceived for the 20th anniversary of Jazz San Javier with the extraordinary flamenco guitarist Niño Josele, the singer and bailaor Tomasito , And the great jazz pianist Albert Sanz.
With more than 30 years of career, 23 albums published, and after having participated in countless projects worldwide with artists such as Paco de Lucia, Camarón, or Chick Corea, among many others, Jorge Pardo has been distinguished by the prestigious Academy French of Jazz with the prize to the Best European Jazz musician, and with the National Prize of the Current Music that grants, in Spain, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Although he started playing guitar, Jorge Pardo soon discovered the world of wind instruments with referents like Pedro Iturralde.
In the early years of his career he came in contact with flamenco greats like Paco de Lucía without abandoning a fruitful relationship that contributed to the consolidation of what was called JazzFlamenco, being considered one of the fathers of the genre that fuses jazz and flamenco .
In this party prepared for Jazz San Javier, Jorge Pardo has the great guitarist Niño Josele, essential in the world of flamenco in Spain, that besides great of the genre like Enrique Morente or Paco de Lucía, also has played with Alicia Keys or Elton John, among many others.
Tomasito will bring his flamenco duende with voice and dance, and the pianist Albert Sanz, who managed to surprise Al Foster with whom he ended up recording in New York, contributes to this original project with his brilliant mixture of technique and sensitivity that has led him To play with some of the leading international jazz musicians.
Jazz San Javier hosts one of the great tenor saxophone veterans Houston Person, considered one of the best exponents of soul jazz, with its All Star Sextet featuring stars such as singer Kevin Mahogany, The also singer and brilliant pianist Dena Derose, and trumpeter Jim Rotondi, with DJ Foster on the double bass and Marc Miralta on drums.
Houston Person enjoys in these recent years of its long race of well-deserved individual recognition like instrumentalist in the tradition of Gene Ammons and Stanley Turrentine.
With 75 albums released as a leader, Houston Person, which began in the 60 's with soul and funk sounds, ended the decade by starting a long collaboration with the great Etta Jones that lasted for more than 30 years.
Houston Person is a teacher for tenor saxophonists whose style is characterized by a sound as resounding as intensity, full of feeling and emotion, warm and swinging, with which he leads a sextet of stars in which stand out the American singer Jazz, Kevin Mahogany who brings his characteristic baritone timbre, jazz pianist and singer Dena Derose and great trumpeter Jim Rotondi who has worked with Ray Charles and Lionel Hampton, among other great musicians.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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