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The Festival de Jazz de San Javier proposes enjoy one of the best Spanish jazz trumpeters, Raynald Colom, which is one of the surprises of this year's Festival.
As each night, double feature awaits a second concert in this case Jamaican pianist Monty offer Alexander, one of the most versatile pianists and leading figure in the jazz world, gathered in San Javier Jazz 50 years in music .
Monty Alexander, whom critics have placed among the five best jazz pianists of all time, turns 50 in music in 1961 in his native Jamaica created his first band, Monty and the Cyclones.
Its origins Jamaican and his influence on American music he live in the musical personality of this piano virtuoso, which holds more than 60 albums as a leader and hundreds of partnerships with names like Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones Barbara Hendricks, Bill Cosby and Bobby McFerrin, among many others.
Already in his early dazzled Duke Ellington and Miles Davis.
Were his first years in New York where he met Milt Jackson, Modern Jazz Quartet, through which was inserted into the elite of American jazz that welcomed him with open arms.
In his tours, direct from clubs and festivals around the world joined their professional projects and work with Natalie Cole in honor of her father Nat "King" Cole, "Unforgettable" which won seven Grammy Awards.
"Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin in the direction of Bobby McFerrin, or the music of "Bird," Clint Eastwood's film about the great Charlie Parker, talk about the versatility of this pianist honored by the government of his native country as ambassador Jamaican music in the world.
His friend Wynton Marsalis has requested twice for the Jazz at Lincoln Center, where he presented "Lords of the West Indies" and "Harlem Kingston Express."
The communion between jazz and Jamaican root results in the tribute album to his countryman Bob Marley "Concrete Jungle" which revisits 12 songs of the king of reggae.
He did the same issues of his friend Tony Bennett in "The Good Life", and then are his admired Nat Cole "Calypso Blues".
Alexander turns 5 decades of fruitful career with a tour that brings him back to San Javier where love and the audience with a splendid concert at the Festival 11.
The Monty Alexander Trio complete with bassist Hassan Shakur usual, and drummer Obed Calvaire.
The evening will begin with Spanish flavor with Raynald Colom Sextet.
Raynald Colom is one of the Spanish jazz trumpeters most requested time.
For four years he was voted the best jazz trumpeter by the Association of Musicians Jazz and Modern Music.
Impeccable classical training, he completed the prestigious Berklee College of Music Boston, his career takes a turn when in 2006, meeting with the flamenco singer, Duquende that invites you to participate in his album "My way of life."
His collaboration with Duquende is both a discovery to the world of flamenco.
Chicuelo, or Rosario "Tremendita" required in this great trumpet player who also signed a flamenco-inspired album "Evocation" (2009), which was presented in Montreal and Marciac, among other international festivals.
It is one of the last steps of this meteoric career musician, and located on the cusp of jazz in Spain, which still has much to contribute.
At the Festival de Jazz de San Javier performs with his sextet composed by trumpet, tenor sax, piano, bass, drums and percussion.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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