Portal de San Javier
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Concert: Ivan Lins and Robin McKelle followed by Monty Alexander
Location: Park auditorium Almansa
Date: Friday, July 25
Hora: 21.30 h.
Admission: 15 Euros
Ivan Lins, who already offered at the Festival de Jazz de San Javier, an extraordinary concert with Jane Monheitt in its sixth edition returns to San Javier with a new jazz singer, American Robin McKelle, in a concert of duets.
In the second concert in the evening, Monty Alexander giant piano with his usual trio invited three Jamaican musicians, will present a tribute to Bob Marley compositions.
Few American jazz musicians have resisted the compositions of Ivan Lins, without doubt one of the most international and Brazilian musicians known as a composer as evidenced by the number of albums released that offer tribute to his music as "A Love Affair" involving from Sting, Grover Washington, Chaka Khan, or Dianne Reeves, among others.
Essential Brazilian music, his compositions have been recorded by jazz great from Ella Fitzgerald to Michael Buble, to Sarah Vaughan, Barbra Streisand, George Benson, The Manhattan Transfer, Diane Schuur, Toots Thielemans, and Lee Ritenour, and many others.
Ivan Lins, with more than 30 albums released, turns 38-year career, which began with great success, his song "Madalena", recorded by Elis Regina in 1970, and then Ella Fitzgerald.
His expected return to the Festival de Jazz de San Javier will occur with the presentation in Spain of one of the voices revelation of American vocal jazz, Robin McKelle that after having shared the stage with names like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard, he jumped leap in 2006.
In that year he published his first solo album, "Introducin Robin McKellar", which recreates issues of the golden age of jazz.
In 2008 he published "Modern Antique" with standars of the 50 and 60.
Along with Ivan Lins offer a concert of duets in which subjects interpret the great Brazilian composer, considered in the United States as the successor of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the greatest composer of Brazilian popular music today.
The second part of the night holds another surprise of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier, with a special concert pianist Monty Alexander, Jamaican Kingstone, which will pay tribute to the musical roots of Jamaica, and especially to Bob Marley.
Monty Alexander has added three Jamaican musicians to his usual training for this concert that just as you did on the album "Stir it up", paying tribute to Marley's music with songs like Jammin 'Could You Be Loved, or not Woman No Cry.
Monty Alexander took the notoriety that I had to travel to Jamaica in the late 50's to New York, where in a short time came with such prominent musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Smith and Milt Jackson.
Classical pianist, the result of school left by the teacher, Oscar Peterson and Ahmad Jamal, Monty Alexander currently enjoys an enormous prestige, classic jazz pianist.
In his classical training, join their Jamaican roots with Caribbean influences that stem from his piano in a natural and unique, bringing a new and original sound to the broad spectrum of current jazz fused with reggae.
In his extensive discography are added collaborations with other artists as she did with Natalie Cole, as a pianist in her album "Unforgettable", a tribute to singer Nat King Cole.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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