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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, Murcia presented today at the XII Festival de Jazz de San Javier, which this year include La Manga del Menor as a second headquarters where they held two of the 22 concerts.
Cruz was accompanied by the mayor of San Javier, Pepa Garcia and festival director Alberto Nieto.
The poster of the Festival, which will run from June 27 to July 25, include big names in jazz, as the leader of Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty, who perform for the first time in Spain on a concert to start European tour, or Wynton Marsalis, whom the festival will award a prize in honor of his career.
The regional head of Culture said that San Javier has "some of the most important festival of its kind on the national scene," as this festival and the Theatre and Dance, noting the "careful balance between American jazz, European and Spanish "poster.
In addition, Cruz described as "important development" to "the transformation of La Manga del Mar Menor in a sub-venue of the festival with two shows taking place at the Puerto Tomas Maestre 11 and 12 July.
The adviser also said that "the intention is that this co-host leaves promoting year after year with a growing program of higher quality and quantity of events for La Manga has a cultural offer that is not only the bathroom, but there are opportunities leisure. "
The festival lineup also take two of the biggest names in jazz history and Marsalys Fogerty, will also feature other important figures of the genre as bassists Ron Carter and Christian McBride, the organist Rhoda Scott and the pianist Joe Sample , which returns with the legendary singer Randy Crawford.
Complete the program a legend of Brazilian music, Jorge Ben Jor, and another heavyweight rock, singer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood.
Three large collaborative projects such as the new project in honor of Kevin Mahogany Big Joe Turner, the Brazilian All Stars + Eddie Gomez and the Chicago Blues A Living History, studded with stars gathered for the occasion, fill the first festival figures jazz, bossa nova and the blues, not to mention the jazz fusion will also be present with a collection of stars gathered for the legendary jazz producer Creed Taylor, founder of CTI Records and Impulse labels within the CTI All Stars Band.
The European jazz pianist Enrico Pieranunzi and violinist Costel Nitescu complete the Festival together with the significant presence of Spanish, common in San Javier, which will host the world premiere of the new album of the Mauri Sanchis Band, and also presented their new albums Sole Giménez , Jerez-Texas, Biel Ballester Trio, and Francesc Burrul and Laura Simó.
San Javier Jazz will also premiere in Spain of two female voices, that of the Italian jazz singer Chiara Civello, and the 'blues woman' U.S. Susan Tedeschi.
The festival this year is dedicated to the memory of the late drummer Louie Bellson, who participated in the first edition of the festival, and the Swedish pianist Esbjörn Svensson, and rock pioneer Bo Diddley, also died recently.
The subscription price is 100 euros for ten nights, while that of individual tickets is between 12 and 16 euros, but Fogerty's concert, which will cost 50 euros, and the Marsalys, 25.
Those who purchase a discount pass in the last two concerts.
Source: CARM
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