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Biel Ballester Trio is one of the most original Spanish Jazz bands, composed of a string trio noted for their high quality in a style alien to the Spanish tradition, such as Gypsy Jazz, or Jazz Manouche, gypsies French "the least American-style jazz and most European of all those who interpreted the world," as explained by these musicians dazzled Catalan Woody Allen himself who ended up including two of his songs in his movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Woody Allen who end up playing in a jam session, coinciding with the premiere of the film, selected "When I was a boy" and "Your shinning eyes" for the film that shot in Barcelona, the birthplace of the trio led by Biel Ballester musician who has been among the most important European artists of jazz Manouches, ie gypsies in France and Central Europe, initiated by the celebrated French guitarist Django Reinhardt, who acknowledge the fans, and that comes from Bal Mix-Mussett traditional Parisian gypsy melodies, along with freedom of jazz improvisation provided.
The trio, consisting of lead guitar Biel Ballester, Leandro Hipaucha on bass, and Graci Pedro on rhythm guitar will play in San Javier Jazz concert, not only the known standards of the genre, composed by Django Reinhardt, but new compositions in incorporating the new trends set by the current gypsy that include touches of bossa nova, rumba and bolero, and issues its own with which contribute to a genre so attractive and appealing as unusual among Spanish jazz musicians .
On a night of contrasts, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood will close the Saturday session of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier with an expected return of the British musician behind the great concert he gave in the eighth edition of Jazz San Javier.
Wenwood Steve is one of the great musicians as demonstrated once again with his new studio album recorded last year, "Nine Lives", which collaborates Eric Clapton, with whom he also gave a concert at Madison Square Garden which has released a CD and a DVD.
Throughout his long career that began in the 60's with Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith, where he played with Clapton for the first time, and later in Traffic, signed Wenwood success as a solo, like "Higher Love" "Valerie" "Arc Of A Diver", "Bakc Talking to the Night", "Back in the high life" which won three Grammy Awards, and "Roll with it" that names the album that finally becomes classical category which also includes songs like "Holding On."
Steve Winwood is one of the greats of the rock scene as demonstrated in his long career, equipped with a powerful voice and instrumental skills as a master of the Hammond organ, guitar or mandolin, as well as an excellent composer.
The nine tracks that make up his acclaimed new album "Nines Lives" has composed the Wenwood, had not posted since 2003 when it appeared "About Time".
In "Nines Lives", has returned to Eric Clapton to have engaged in "Dirty City", one of the topics that Winwood demonstrates the critics and the public that after 45 year career is only interested in making good music .
His last job and no doubt some of his greatest hits will be played on the Jazz concert given in San Javier, which is accompanied by musicians such as saxophonist Paul Booth, Jose Neto on guitar, Richard Bailey on drums, and Karl Vanden Bossche in percussion.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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