Lincoln Center Orchestra
Date: Friday July 19
Time: 21:30 h.
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
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Wynton Marsalis & Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra celebrate their 25th Anniversary in Jazz San Javier
The young pianist Albert Marquis open with his Trio and guitarist Jordi Bonell a night of celebration in the Almansa Park Auditorium
Jazz San Javier received his appointment tomorrow, Friday July 19 trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis leading the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, the best big band in the world, celebrating its 25th anniversary with a concert tour in which sound compositions of the greats like John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington and many others.
Jazz San Javier not want to miss the anniversary of this legendary formation, nor cease to look for new talent in jazz, including Catalan pianist Albert Marques, 27 years old, which precede Wynton Marsalis trio playing, and with veteran guitarist Jordi Bonell.
Jazz San Javier has been, for years, one of the quotes in the European tours of Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Four years ago he paid tribute to musical excellence and the role it plays in contemporary jazz handing the Award XII Festival de Jazz de San Javier, one of the prizes awarded by a public that has always been given to the great New Orleans trumpeter and the now legendary big band formed in 1988.
Celebrate with them this anniversary is a luxury San Javier Jazz could not miss.
Wynton Marsalis, which began as a child on trumpet and still very young he worked with Art Blakey and Herbie Hancock, boasts an immense career, world wide recognition which highlights the Jazz At Lincoln Center, New York that runs from 1995.
The training meets stringent selection of soloists that make up an impressive horn section with four trumpets, three trombones, five saxes, plus piano, drums and bass.
Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director, and music, plus trumpeter Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra, which has transmitted its classical training and musical taste, reluctant to melting and defender of the true jazz tradition.
Today is a landmark in contemporary jazz, one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz today, and excellent composer, the first jazz artist to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio "Blood on the Fields". Was also the first to get two Grammy awards in the same year, one classical and one jazz.
The Anniversary At Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra is a happy event, the perfect excuse to retell one of the most desired concert at Jazz San Javier.
The 27-year-old Catalan pianist Albert Marquis is still far from being able to celebrate 25 years of career, but surely it will.
His enormous creativity and artistic maturity and have placed as one of the greatest promises of Spanish and European jazz scene.
Jazz San Javier Marqués visit with Pep Colls, bass, and Gonzalo del Val, on drums, with which he formed his own trio, with guitarist Jordi Bonell, who was his teacher at the Conservatory "one of the great" with which always knew I wanted to play.
Marquis self-produced their first and only album "Albert Marques Trio + Jordi Bonell", which includes original compositions and several standars as "Moment's notice" of John Coltrane, and the classic "I fall in love too easily", the only ballad disc dedicated to his girlfriend.
The album includes other topics such as self-composed "Trio", a tribute to the rhythm section.
Marquis admits references like Brad Mehldau, but denies romantic jazz fashion prioritizing technique regarding the feeling.
After a season in Paris, where European jazz soaked, currently lives in New York where he played in the Big Band of Arturo O'Farrill.
The great guitarist Jordi Bonell, who visits San Javier Jazz for the third time, put the finishing touch to this appealing concert that will open another memorable night in the Almansa Park Auditorium.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier