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George Benson, icon of modern music and one of the best guitarists in jazz history, returns to San Javier with one of his best albums in recent years, "Inspiration" a tribute to the great Nat King Cole.
The guitarist and singer will perform with Pittsburgh accompanied by his powerful band and the young jazz guitarist Andreas Varady, who has surprised the world with an exceptional talent, as guest artist.
Benson, who has visited San Javier Jazz four times, and received the Award of the Festival in its thirteenth edition, revised, from the deep admiration and virtuosity that characterizes him, some of the hits from Nat King Cole as "Mona Lisa" including two versions of the current and George Benson recorded when she was only 8 years old.
"Inspiration" has featured as trumpet Wynton Marsalis on "Unforgettable, the prestigious Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, and pianist and arranger Randy Waldman, a prominent pieces of disc that includes classics like" Route 66 collaborations "and" When I Fall In Love ", among many others.
The young jazz guitarist, of Hungarian origin, Andres Varady, of only 17 years, accompanying George Benson as a guest artist, a dream come true for this young talent who has started a brilliant career in the hands of Quincy Jones and a recent contract with Verve Records with newly recorded his first album.
George Benson, Varady confessed idol is one of the musical influences of the new feeling of jazz, along with Django Reinhardt and Wes Montgomery.
George Benson perform at Jazz San Javier accompanied by an exceptional band comprised of Stanley Banks on bass, musical director David Garfield on keyboards and Thom Hall in PIANNO and keyboards, Michael O'Neil, on guitar and vocals, Khari Parker on drums, and Liliana de los Reyes on percussion choirs.
George Benson has gathered a hardcore audience in the millions worldwide throughout a long and successful musical career that has proven to be one of the best guitarists in contemporary jazz, while his versatility has allowed him to successfully transit the swing, bebop, rhthm'n'blues, soul or pop, not to mention his skills as a singer.
With all this, George Benson, can prove time and again, to his faithful audience that each concert is always a new experience seasoned by the maximum respect and liking for direct he has shown in all his performances at Jazz San Javier, where has always raised high expectations.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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