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One of the more unusual instruments in jazz bands, the violin is the star of the first part of the San Javier Jazz night with the brilliant violinist Costel Nitescu, heir to the unmistakable style of the great Stephane Grappelli who paid tribute in his album "Forever Swing Grappelli Forever" to be presented in a concert of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier.
The second part of the evening will be dedicated to the Blues in Chicago, with four exceptional musicians heirs of traditional Chicago blues, Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Lurrie Bell and Billy Branch who gathered in Chicago Blues, Living History ", yield tribute to the genre from its beginnings to the present.
Romanian violinist Costel Nitescu out among those musicians who followed the path of the great French violinist Stephane Grappelli fellow teacher who was Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist whose musical universe Grappelli transmitted to a later generation among which Nitescu, who at 16 he became the first Gypsy violin Radio Orchestra of Bucharest.
Costel Nitescu, he moved to Paris where he contacted the jazzy atmosphere that came with an extraordinary technical quality soon receive the influence of the lyrical and romantic jazz Grappelli, together with its sense of swing and his natural talent for improvisation allowed position itself as the best violinists of the current Grappelli.
Jazz concert in San Javier, Costel Nitescu presents his latest album "Forever Grappelli Forever", a tribute to his teacher in which he demonstrates his ability to communicate with their own style, which emphasizes his great mastery of the slow times, and its ability to "do mourn" the strings on tracks like "Ballade pour Ileana" or rush of emotion in songs like "Nature Boy."
Nitescu is presented in the Festival de Jazz de San Javier in the formation of the quartet with piano Hervias Antoine, Guillaume Soriau on bass, and Adrien Moignard on drums.
The second part of the evening is devoted to the blues of Chicago, Chicago Blues, Living History, "a group of stars at the crossroads of two generations of the greatest exponents of traditional and genre of the blues, come on City of Chicago by adding more instruments to the basic blues guitar and harmonica, and a repertoire of musical notes wider than standard blues scale of six notes, getting, often an effect jazzier. "
This training meets an exception to Billy Boy Arnold (vocals, guitar, harmonica), John Primer (vocals, guitar), Billy Branch (vocals, harmonica) and Lurrie Bell (vocals, guitar), heirs, all of the tradition genuine Chicago blues, which will be accompanied at San Javier Jazz Johnny Iguana on keyboards, Felton Crews on bass, and Kenny Smith on drums.
All they accumulate years of music behind dozens of albums, training, and collaborations with leading musicians in a genre that does not keep secrets for them.
With the same title which leads to the formation "Chicago Blues A Living History", released a double CD, last spring, which collected 21 tracks that sum up the history of Chicago Blues, and presented in concert Jazz San Javier.
The album claimed the special place that this genus occupies in the history of twentieth-century American music, with a tribute to its creators, the musicians featured in its rich history, while helping to keep alive the tradition of a genre has many in the audience followed the Festival de Jazz de San Javier.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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