The programming, of this edition, has been the last one made by Paco Martín
Michel Legrand, Al Di Meola, Bill Evans with Randy Brecker, Camille Bertault, Madeleine Peyroux, Joan As Police Woman, Lisa Simone, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobhman, Scott Matthew, Richard Bona and Femi Kuti at the 38th Cartagena Jazz Festival
The programming, of this edition, has been the last one made by Paco Martín
Since 1980, Paco Martín, recently deceased, has directed and programmed all the editions of the Cartagena Jazz Festival. This year, the festival, one of the longest-lived in the Region of Murcia, celebrates its 38th edition, with the latest programming that Martin made. The festival, which will be held from November 2 to 24, and which has a sign that recalls the figure of its creator, will meet in Michel Legrand, Al Di Meola, Bill Evans with Randy Brecker, Camille Bertault, Madeleine Peyroux , Joan As Police Woman, Lisa Simone, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobhman, Scott Matthew, Richard Bona and Femi Kuti.
This edition of the festival will be held, as usual, at the Nuevo Teatro Circo and the auditorium El Batel, and will return to the street with concerts in the Plaza del Icue. It continues with the collaboration with bars in the city: El Cuervo, Mr. Witt and El Soldadito de Plomo. And there will be a lindy hop workshop and swing dance. Tickets can be purchased today through the festival website jazzcartagena.com or at the ticket offices of the two venues. In addition the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, organizer of the festival, has put up for sale 250 season tickets to 55 euros, to attend all the concerts.
The first day of the festival, November 2, will feature the amazing Camille Bertault and the indispensable, Madeleine Peyroux. The French press unanimously described Camille Bertault as an impressive artist. It has an overflowing personality. This young woman is one of the great revelations of the year in a category, which is unclassifiable. Camille Bertault is the author of one of the most delicious albums of the last years Pas de Géant, with which she presents herself for the first time in Cartagena. The night will conclude with Madeleine Peyroux. Regular singer of the jazz festival, sophisticated and with an exalted taste. This great lady of 21st century vocal jazz will present Anthem.
He is one of the greatest composers. Winner of three Oscars, creator of the soundtrack of more than 200 films, has recorded with Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis and gave form with Boris Vian to the first ‘rock and roll’ in French. He is more than eighty years old, but he continues unstoppable. Michel Legrand is one of the great French musicians of the second half of the 20th century. The Frenchman performs at the Cartagena Jazz Festival, Saturday November 3, at the head of his trio showing his eclectic style, which brings together jazz, classical and French popular tradition. After the master, he will climb to the tables of the New Theater Circus, Joan As Police Woman, who comes to present Damned Devotion, where he continues to show a sophisticated pop filtering a feminism of reaffirmation rather than combative.
Union of stars on the stage. On Friday, November 9, Batel will host two of the greatest jazz greats of the moment, Randy Brecker and Bill Evans, who meet 15 years later to commemorate the Soulbop tour. In 2003 Randy and Bill decided to form a new band using the different influences of each one, incorporating different musicians each season, and this year they turn again with Soulpop, but they do it in a big way. This time they have a special guest, drummer Simon Phillips, drummer Toto, The Who or Mike Oldfield among others. A powerful project to which Teymur Phell will also be added to the bass and Otmaro Ruiz to the keyboards, thus making a luxury quintet. After them, Nina Simone’s daughter, Lisa Simone, comes to reclaim her own space in the world of music, presenting My World, where she finds her own place, her own identity.
Master of masters of the battery, the Panamanian-American Billy Cobham was one of the first artists to combine the rhythms of rock with the polyrhythms of jazz and funk. Someone wrote that their success results from the union of exact precision and explosive force. It is one of the batteries that have most influenced the way we play. He has enriched the technique of jazz drums, has moved it with energy to the field of jazz-rock and has become a model for all the batteries of the world. Saturday, November 10. After Cobhman, it will be the turn of Stanley Clarke, a four-time Grammy Award winner, and undoubtedly one of the most famous acoustic and electric bass players in the world. A living legend, during his career of more than 40 years as bass virtuoso.
Sweetness, sadness and bitterness in their fair doses are the characteristics of Scott Matthew’s style. The Australian comes to present his latest album Unlearned. Friday, 16th of November