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Richard Galliano, grand master of the accordion, go back a third time at Festival de Jazz de San Javier received the prize in the fifth edition of the Festival.
That was their presentation in Spain.
Three years later in 2005, Jazz San Javier was also the scenario that played for the first time in our country with the newly created Tangaria Quartet to returning on a night in which the tango is the main character.
Galliano, who began studying piano and accordion with his father, in Nice, soon he combined his love for a popular instrument like the accordion and jazz.
In his hands, the accordion becomes an organ that gets the sounds that need to be integrated naturally in modern jazz that has made the merger with the French musette.
Collaborator and friend of Astor Piazzolla, until the death of Argentine composer and bandoneon player, Galliano has worked with jazz greats as Wynton Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, Chet Baker, Ron Carter, Al Foster, or the French singers Charles Aznavour and Juliette Greco.
Richard Galliano, who will play in the second part of the night, will be accompanied by the violinist Nicolas Dautricourt, the bassist Jean Philippe Viret, and Venezuelan percussionist Rafael Mejias Vegas, with which it forms the formidable Tangaria Quartet.
The penultimate round of the San Javier Jazz will start with two of the leading figures of Spanish jazz, harmonica player Antonio Serrano and bassist Javier Colina who have come together to record an album "Hill Serrano Project" (Universal-ContraBaix) with which presented at the Festival de Jazz de San Javier accompanied by pianist Mariano Diaz and drummer Guillermo McGill, who also participated in the recording of the album.
Special guest and request the Festival, participate Cádiz singer Carmen Rodriguez, lead singer of the duo reminded La Plata, owner of one of the most beautiful voices of Spanish pop.
"Serrano Hill Project" includes original compositions and arrangements by composers as disparate topics as "Zyryab" by Paco de Lucia, "Overjoyed" by Stevie Wonder classics like the "Study" of Chopin, boleros as "The Lie" by Alvaro Carrillo or jazz standards as "Sweet Georgia Brown" or "I Have a Dream."
All, with the screen the universe of flamenco and Latin jazz contributing Serrano and Hill, and a great influence of Argentinean tango.
Javier Colina, bass reference point in Europe, started in flamenco jazz projects.
Along with McGill formed the trio of pianist Chano Domínguez Cadiz.
He has worked with artists as diverse as Hank Jones, Tete Montoliu, Tomatito, Enrique Morente, Juan Perro, Carlos Nunez, and with BeboValdés and Diego "El Cigala" with those who undertook the project "Lagrimas Negras", produced by Fernando Trueba.
The harmonica player Antonio Serrano, one of the great jazz musicians began as harmonica Spanish classic, but after listening to Toots Thielemans decided to devote himself to jazz.
Since then he has worked with all the Spanish jazz musicians more important as Sambeat Perico, Chano Dominguez, Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent, or even the Hill and drummer Guillermo McGill with those who share the stage at Jazz San Javier.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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