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Javier Vaquero, the Spanish Lee Ritenour, a real genius of the Spanish guitar can become a revelation of the Festival de Jazz de San Javier where it acts for the first time with his band and a new album "7 Soles 7 Lunas" (New Mood Jazz).
Guitarist and composer, Javier Vaquero is now one of the most prominent Spanish musicians in jazz fusion.
Spanish guitar virtuoso, Cowboy is immersed in flamenco, jazz, Latin music, distilling a Mediterranean flavor that characterizes his style that sometimes recalls the best work or own Ritenour Luis Salinas.
Javier Vaquero accumulated an extensive academic background, and great flexibility that allows you to play electric guitar, and acoustic, with particular focus on flamenco guitar and the 5-string banjo, and mandolin.
Last year he won the 2 nd edition of the Yamaha Guitar Hero with the song "Roll Bounce."
With a long career behind him in which he has played with many Spanish singers, Cowboy created his own group in 2004, he published his first album "My sun and my moon" (2005).
The Guitar Festival of Kaluga, Russia, or Girona Jazz Festival where he performed together with Carles Benavent and Jorge Pardo, are some of the many scenarios for what happened to Javier Vaquero in San Javier Jazz concert will be accompanied by Raul piano Patiño, Juan Guerra on bass, Martí Soler on drums and percussion, and singer Raul Leiva.
The second part of the night is dedicated to one of the last great American musical talent, Christian Scott, named "Trumpeter of the Year" in 2009 by critics in the magazine "Downbeat".
Born in New Orleans in 1983, Christian Scott has starred in a brilliant career with five albums released at 27 years and have provided comparisons with Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis.
For his latest and last album "You Said Tomorrow Yesterday" (Concord / Universal, 2010) has had a historical sound engineer in jazz, Rudy Van Gelder has worked with greats like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock , among others.
Enemy of the music labels, Christian Scott has turned on his new album his influences and his taste for the 60 musicians he admired the combination of artistic and political commitment.
The legacy of musicians like Coltrane, Mingus, Miles Davis, or Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix is the last work of this talented young trumpeter and composer of new school does not forsake the teachings of the usual jazz or contemporary music.
Among other things, the new disc includes a version of "Eraser" a track from Thom Yorke, Radiohead.
The emergence Scott Christian Music with his debut "Rewind That" (Concord) made him one of the faces to watch by Billboard, and was nominated for a Grammy as well make it one of the "30 young leaders under 30 years "of Ebony.
His ability and his tremendous talent has made musicians from various sources claim it to play as Prince, Marcus Miller, and Aerosmith, among others.
His fame grew with the appearance in a couple of films, including "Leatherheads" ("Leatherheads") with George Clooney, and "Rachel Getting Married," directed by Jonathan Demme.
In his concert at the Festival de Jazz de San Javier will be accompanied, in quintet formation, by Milton Fletcher on piano, Matthew Stevens on guitar, Kris Funn, on bass, and Jamira Williams on drums.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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