Portal de San Javier
www.portaldesanjavier.com
Date: Saturday July 27
Time: 21:30 h.
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Entrance: 15 Euros
San Javier Jazz dismisses its sixteenth edition with a tribute to Bebo Valdes Chuchito starring his grandson, and the concert of legendary saxophonist
Lou Donaldson
The Festival de Jazz de San Javier farewell edition with a night that promises to be memorable because the presence, on one side of one of the living legends of jazz, Lou Donaldson, one of the brightest high saxophonists in jazz history, with guitar great Randy Johnson, and Hammond organ virtuoso Akiko Tsuruga Quartet integrated in.
On the other hand the pianist Chuchito Valdes, third generation of one of the most prominent families of Cuban music, leads a concert "Tribute to Bebo Valdés", his grandfather, in a quartet, which is part of Spanish bassist Javier Colina , and singer Sandra Carrasco.
The American Lou Donaldson is one of the survivors of the golden age of jazz, so that the pleasure of hearing it adds the feeling of entering in jazz history condensed into the space of a concert.
Donaldson treasures a career spanning five decades and 48 albums recorded as a leader, as well as collections, and recordings with such representative names in the jazz world as Clifford Brown, Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Jimmy Smith, Wayne Sorter , and Art Blakey, whose quintet was part appearing in several of the best albums of the great drummer.
Enlisted in the army reaches bop era Chicago.
With his first band recorded the soundtrack for the musical comedy "Pitch a Boogie Woogie", passed by orchestras, and plays with jazz greats, becoming an encyclopedia of the genre and developed a great expertise ranging from hardbop, the taste for blues, jazz and especially the soul.
Lou Donaldson, who has been one of the great stars of the prestigious Blue Note label, debuts at Jazz San Javier, with great anticipation among fans, with a quartet of luxury with the great guitarist Randy Johnston, the Hammond B3 organ virtuoso , Akiko Tsuruga, and Fukushi Tainaka on drums.
The night, and this year's Festival with Cuban flavor will be fired.
Pianist, composer and arranger Chuchito Valdes, Chucho's son and grandson of Bebo Valdés, leads a concert to Jazz San Javier, who always welcomed with open arms to this family saga, dedicated to great Cigala Bebo together, presented scoop several issues that then formed the famous album "Lágrimas Negras" in the fifth edition Jazz San Javier.
Chuchito Valdes is a great pianist, a great style that can remind Oscar Peterson and Monty Alexander, and also takes in DNA, a unique way of playing Cuban music such as Mambo, Danzon, Cha-cha-cha or son montuno that form, along with his extensive repertoire of jazz.
"Music was in the air," says the musician, the third generation of a series of pianists, has become a legend, that has been lavished on concerts in Spain.
Chuchito Valdés publicly regretted had never touched with his father and grandfather, Chucho and Bebo Valdés, they did do a tour together in Spain.
His debut at Jazz San Javier serve precisely to remember and pay tribute to his grandfather, who died recently at age 94, and will in a quartet with Spanish bassist Javier Colina, who had a great professional relationship and friendship with Bebo, Georvis Pico, on drums, Yuvisney Aguilar on percussion, and Sandra Carrasco, one of the best voices of the new flamenco as guest artist.
The concert offered on Saturday at Jazz San Javier will be the world premiere of several issues of the two newly recorded albums, Chuchito Valdés and Sandra Carrasco Chuchito the piano, which will be released the next fall.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies