Guests: Enrique Heredia "El Negri" and Jorge Reyes + Dhafer Youssef Quartet] | XVI Festival Jazz San Javier |
Date: Saturday June 29
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Time: 21:30 h.
Input: 15Euros
San Javier Jazz starts its sixteenth edition with the presentation in Europe of "Bolero Flamenco", the new album by pianist Abdon Alcaraz Murcia, and the return of Tunisian Oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef
The pianist Abdon Alcaraz and his proposal of jazz and flamenco flavored with Cuban flavor and the Tunisian Dhafer Youssef with his lyrical and musical intensity, starting venture full of emotions and feelings for the Jazz Festival XVI San Javier which begins tomorrow Saturday 29 June with a double and two evening concerts in height.
The pianist and composer Murcia, Abdon Alcaraz San Javier Jazz presents his new album "Bolero Flamenco", with guests like Cuban bassist Jorge Reyes, a member of the legendary group Irakere, Enrique Heredia "El Negri" and Veronica Nephews in singing.
Abdon Alcaraz meteoric career pianist has established itself as one of the strongest values ​​of the new jazz-flamenco fusion enters the classic bolero in a new job that is discovered as a lyricist, with original songs and realize that once again, his mastery of the piano.
Lover of flamenco and jazz, Abdon Alcaraz has received several awards including flamenco pianist, as achieved in the International Festival song of mine of La Union, or obtained with their album "Reykjavik" for best instrumental flamenco album in 2010 , year that started his international career unstoppable.
Jorge Pardo, Toni Zenet, Swede Ove Larsson, and saxophonist Field Gautama, who will accompany the San Javier Jazz concert, are some of the collaborations on this new album, which comes to San Javier in his debut in Europe and before starting a tour of Mexico that will take after the United States, to return to tour Spain.
The second part of the night the stars a musician of enormous talent, the Tunisian Dhafer Youssef, composer, singer and virtuoso Oud, Arabic instrument that originated the European lute, whose concerts become a full musical experience not to be missed.
Dhafer Youssef concentrates a captivating voice, with great intensity in all its musical offerings from the Sufi tradition, the traditional music of his country, the Mediterranean sound and taste for jazz, a genre that deepens in Europe after leaving his country , with influences mainly from Nordic jazz knows after outstanding collaboration as the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset, and The Kohene String Quartet, among others.
Return to Festival Jazz San Javier Dhafer Youssef is probably one of the most anticipated after the shock it caused to the public their first concert.
This time returns with new compositions and completely renovated a quartet that includes Kristjan Randalu on piano, Phil Donkin on bass and Chander Sardjoe on percussion.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier