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The Festival de Jazz de San Javier offers on Tuesday July 12th a historic meeting with the legendary jazz-rock group "Chicago" which turns 44 years active with more than 100 million albums sold worldwide.
Early successes as "25 or 6 to 4", "Hard to say I'm sorry," oe "If you leave me now" marked the career of this group that revolutionized the American rock of the 70, and retaining a legion of fans around the world, after five decades in business.
Few bands can boast the best horn section in rock history.
Chicago, with the group Blood, Sweat & Tears, treasure magnificent two sections of winds that have marked the history of jazz rock, but only in the case of Chicago kept its original members with 4 of its founders, keyboardist and singer Robert Lamm , trumpeter Leee Loughnane, James Pankow trombonist and saxophonist Walt Parazaider.
The band of 8 members, complete with a bass guitar, drums, and keyboards, and two voices.
In addition to jazz, rock, Chicago has also been highlighted in pop-rock and soft rock ballads like the famous "If you leave me now", the voice that put one of its founders Peter Cetera, and that got a Grammy.
The chapter awards is bulky, with 21 singles in the Top 10, and 11 as No. 1 and 25 of 32 platinum albums.
Also dyed platinum live DVD in 2005 made a joint tour with his friends from Earth, Wind & Fire.
Chicago, which took its name from the city of its founders, gelled as a band at DePaul University, and an unexpected success led tour of Los Angeles, and to record their first album.
His early work involved a revolution in the way of playing and composing, and the hits were starting to poke compositions were added as valued as the suite "Ballet for a Girl in Buchanan."
With different stages throughout his creative career and longevity, Chicago comes to the present while spinning around the world and post new records, the last in 2010, "Chicago XXX".
His new album, titled with numbers corresponding to their discography, interspersed with his greatest hits compilations, which are held by their fans, tomorrow night and relive the concert will be the first of its long history, Spain, and San Javier Jazz is proud to host.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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