Portal de San Javier
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Concert Saturday June 25]
Albert Lee, one of the best guitarists in the world with his own band, and the collaboration of guitarist Biel Ballester also with the French violinist Costel Nitescu stars in a night "chords luxury" to open the Festival de Jazz de San Javier
Albert Lee, the brilliant British guitarist who already went through the Festival de Jazz de San Javier with former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and his Rhythm Kings returns with his group of all life, Hogan's Heroes, a band composed of some of top British musicians to be offered by the second concert of the Festival's opening night.
To Eric Clapton, with whom he worked for several years, Albert Lee "is the best guitarist in the world."
"Their sound is unmistakable. Often imitated but never equaled" Emmylou Harris said of him, another great with Albert Lee has played, not to mention stars like Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jackson Brownw or Dolly Parton, among many others.
In his work as guest guitarist joins a long solo career that has led some thirty albums since the late 60's.
The rock, rhythm & blues, and country music are their habitat, but he himself has confessed his preference for the latter genre, which led him to move to America where he currently resides.
Accompanied by piano, bass, drums, dobro and guitar, Albert Lee returns to the Festival of San Javier confessed wanting to offer an unforgettable concert and reach an audience that may not, but give in to this virtuoso of the guitar that also dominates the piano, and is a master of live.
The first part of the night host a concert presented equally explosive.
Biel Ballester Mallorcan guitarist start the Festival in collaboration with the great French violinist of Romanian origin Nitescu Costel.
Both were very successful in their separate interests in the Festival de Jazz de San Javier, which now meets on the same stage in a night of jazz manouche gypsy jazz or clear Mediterranean influences.
Biel Ballester's music and his trio composed of Graci Pedro rhythmic guitar and bass Leandro Hipaucha to love Woody Allen included it in his film "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
His style follows the trail of the great French guitarist Django Reinhardt, which meets Costel Nitescu, heirs both the jazz Manouche, ie the Roma in France and Central Europe, based in Paris and Muset traditional gypsy melodies added to the improvisation of jazz itself.
European Jazz designation of origin enriched by the freshness of Mediterranean jazz to begin a night of surprises and thrills in the two concerts scheduled for the start of the Festival.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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