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The singer Mary Stallings and Eric pianist with his trio, form an elegant and sophisticated tandem with that one night at the start of The Family Stone made the audience dance with one of the best soul-funk repertoire of music history .
San Francisco singer, Mary Stallings inaugurated the presence of female vocalists in Jazz San Javier.
Review on Olympus puts the jazz singers alive although paradoxically not of the best known by the general public.
He began his career at a young singing jazz clubs where he shared the stage with Wes Montgomery and Ben Webster.
Inaugurated the 60's recording an album with vibraphonist Cal Tjader and songwriter, and having worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Eckstine joined the Count Basie Orchestra was the vocalist for several years.
Motherhood led her away from the stage and for a couple of decades was devoted to raising her daughter, the R & B singer Adriana Evans.
In the late 80s, Mary Stallings, to which is attributed the influence of Carmen McRae returns to the music Retrieving the continuity of interrupted discography, contained in "Dream on Highnote" (2010) in collaboration with the pianist Eric Reed, who produced this and his next two albums, and next to that act at Jazz San Javier.
Eric Reed, a favorite pianists of the legendary Ahmad Jamal, who was a child prodigy and virtuoso musician requested by the greatest artists as Wynton Marsalis, with whom he worked for years, will perform with his trio of piano, bass and drums, Stallings with Mary.
Eric Reed, who left great memories in San Javier, after his magnificent concert in the third edition of Soul Music, stands out for its technical level and virtuosity as expressiveness and sophistication in his playing.
The second part of the night is reserved for one of the fundamental groups of funk music.
The Family Stone, then the legendary Sly & The Family Stone, recognized as the best soul-funk group the 70 training, years after its dissolution himself together, regardless of its creator, Sly Stone, but with three its founding members Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson, and Greg Errico, and four new additions forming an electrifying band that becomes a party in their direct reviewing the greatest hits of Sly & The Family Stone.
Which was the first multiracional band composed of musicians from both sexes in rock history, remains as strong as ever recreating songs like "I want to take you higher", "Everyday People", "Dance to the music", "Family affair "or" Sing a Simple Song ", among many others.
Impossible to escape the pace imposed by these seven great musicians and singers, true authorities in the soul-funk that will invade every corner of the auditorium.
The story of Sly & The Family Stone is long and dates back to 1967 with a first successful step in the set as it passes through the legendary music festival Woodstock in 1969, where they triumphed among the new generation of young people with his message of tolerance peace and love, and especially with a sound basis of soul and funk opened to other influences such as rock, blues, pop, and jazz.
Since the dissolution of the band in 1975, Sly Stone continued to record albums in a different and far from the origin of the original formation stage, now reborn full of energy, making The Family Stone a true whirlwind of good music and joy .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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