Portal de San Javier
www.portaldesanjavier.com
Date: Sunday, July 30
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Space: Auditorium Parque Almansa
Entry: 20Euros
Jazz San Javier bids its 20th edition with the pianist and great French composer Michel Legrand, one of the most outstanding European musicians in the last century.
With more than 60 years of career, Michel Legrand keeps intact his curiosity, the same one that did not allow him in its youth to choose "between being classical pianist or jazz, or classical composer or of films", reason why luckily for the public opted For doing everything, highlighting as an excellent composer of symphonic, classical, jazz, chanson, opera, pop, and especially films, which are already part of recent musical history.
Michel Legrand has won three Oscars, 13 times in which he was nominated, for the main theme of "The Thomas Crown", for the music of "Summer of 42" and for the best soundtrack of "Yentl".
Among his best-known themes are the classic European music film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", or "The Ladies of Rochefort".
The five-time Grammy Award winner has a long career as a jazz composer and pianist since recording his album "Legrand Jazz" (1945) with such glories as Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans.
His creative torrent has also allowed him to create songs for stars like Charles Aznavour, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Maurice Chevalier, and opera greats like Jessye Norman, Kiri Te Kanawa and Natalie Dessay.
His uncountable career also includes music for numerous television series, as well as more recently the music for the ballet "Liliom" by John Neumeier, in which he fuses classical music and jazz, for the Hamburg Ballet.
His restlessness and love for music with capital letters have made this great artist who has also proven himself as a singer during a time and who, at the age of 85, maintains an intense agenda and desire to continue creating.
As in the whole of his career, Michel Legrand multiplies as an interpreter on the piano where he enjoys the "paradise of improvisation", bringing to the keyboard the feeling and evocation of his most romantic compositions, injecting swing and bringing flashes of any other musical genre , While still surprising its audience.
In Jazz San Javier will play with a formation of Trio the piano and accompanied by Pierre Boussaguet in the contrabass and François Laizeau in the battery in which it is his unique concert in Spain in 2017.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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