Concerts: Picazo, De Lera, Cucciardi and Guest-Richard Galliano New Musette Quartet featuring Sylvain Luc "Hommage a Edith Piaf"
Date: Saturday, July 18
Location: auditorium Almansa Park, San Javier
Time: 21: 30h.
Admission: 15 euros
Jazz San Javier has one of the most romantic night of her eighteenth edition with a perfect harmony between jazz and classical music concert on the first night with the Picazo, De Lera and Cucciardi Valencia, a piano trio that with other great musicians jazz and mezzo-soprano stroll by the border between jazz and classical music.
Richard Gallliano Jazz returns to San Javier with the great French jazz guitarist Sylvain Luc which will offer a concert tribute to Edith Piaf coinciding with the centenary of the birth of the great lady of French chanson.
The Alicante pianist Daniel Picazo, classically trained, along with the great musicians, also Valencian, Diego de Lera bassist and drummer Felipe Cucciardi came together to record an album, which was a real find in the Spanish jazz scene "Al voltant of Mompou ".
A new musical jewel that unites jazz and classical music with versions of the Catalan composer Frederic Mompou, which names the album, with original compositions and versions of standards like "Over the Rainbow".
Jazz San Javier, presented the new window that opens in the Spanish jazz with several newly composed by Daniel Picazo new topics to be released in Jazz San Javier and to be integrated into the new album Trio, accompanied by two large wind Valencian jazz scene, saxophonist and trumpeter Kiko Berenguer Voro Garcia, along with mezzo-soprano Carmen Bou and David Forés the cello.
Accordion master Richard Galliano, one of the most prestigious musicians in Europe, returns to San Javier Jazz where he acted in its fifth edition inaugurating the Festival Award in which was his first performance in Spain.
After several visits, acclaimed by the audience, the successor of the great bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla, which was great friend, returns to San Javier Jazz with an exciting project that has performed with the great jazz guitarist Bayonne, Sylvain Luc, and It has resulted in the album "La Vie en Rose".
"Rencontres avec Edith Piaf et Gus Viseur".
The two musicians, who previously collaborated, together again his talent to pay tribute to the great Edith Piaf taking advantage of the centennial of his birth, and to remember, at the same, time to another legend of French music, accordionist Gus Viseur , one of the architects of manouche jazz and musical confidant of the grande dame of the chanson.
Songs like "La Vie en Rose", "La Foule" or "L'accordéoniste" come to life without the voice of Edith Piaf but with the same poignancy with which the great classics stand the test of time.
Richard Galliano, who has worked with jazz greats such as Wynton Marsalis, or Toots Thielemans and singers Charles Aznavour and Juliette Greco, among others, is now a world leader accordion making organ of you get the sounds you need to achieve seamless integration into modern jazz that has brought the fusion of French musette.
Besides the French guitarist Sylvain Luc with which he recorded the disc tribute to Edith Piaf, they will also accompany concert of Jazz San Javier, Yaron Stavi on bass and Hans Van Oosterhout on drums, forming a quartet of high level within the European jazz .
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier