Portal de San Javier
www.portaldesanjavier.com
Date: Saturday July 20
Time: 21:30 h.
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Entrance: 15 euros
The Festival de Jazz de San Javier Prize is awarded its sixteenth edition to Pedro Iturralde, living history of jazz in Spain, on a night that will end Celtic fusion sound with violinist Judith Mateo
Saxophonist and composer Pedro Iturralde receives navarro on Saturday July 20th at the Sixteenth Prize Festival International de Jazz de San Javier for his transcendental importance in the history of jazz in Spain and a successful career, who at 84 years, it becomes a living legend in our country genre.
The awaited concert by Pedro Iturralde Quartet in formation, open a night when San Javier Jazz welcomes one of the most outstanding violinists of the Spanish music scene, Judith Mateo, Star Celtic folk rock roots, which will perform accompanied by a distinctly rock band.
Pedro Iturralde, along with Tete Montoliu, is at the origin of jazz history in Spain.
He pioneered and has been referred to the jazz musicians of our country.
The great musician Navarre, who combined his concerts and recordings with his saxophone professor at the Conservatory of Music in Madrid until his retirement, was also a pioneer in the fusion of jazz and flamenco, with a hard landmark album "Flamenco Jazz" in which involved a young Paco de Lucia, shaping a style that today is one of the hallmarks of the Spanish jazz.
Iturralde has a lot of life and music back.
His virtuosity, his love for detail, his love of melody, have characterized the impeccable style of this music lover ethnic sounds that naturally leads to the jazz sound with watermarks doing that dazzles the public, as happened in his previous visit to Jazz San Javier.
Pedro Iturralde, debuted nine years as a saxophonist.
At 18 starts a season long tours abroad, to return later to Madrid where it operates, for several years, in the "Whisky Jazz Club" with the likes of Tete Motoliú, and Gerry Mulligan, among others.
A recording with the German label MPS, in 1967, enshrined in the European scene, where he participated in jazz festivals such as Berlin, next to the groups of Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk, among others.
Neither goes unnoticed in the United States, where he received praise in magazines such as "Down Beat", and which ended up being honored for his lifetime dedicated to jazz by the "Berklee College of Music" in Boston.
This recognition adds to other submissions received throughout his life, and now has the honor of presenting the Jazz Festival of San Javier.
Pedro Iturralde give way to other Spanish music, Judith Mateo, the Spanish violinist restless foremost among Celtic figures panorama.
Training and classical taste, Judith Mateo decided to improve their English in Ireland, where he discovered the Celtic sound that marked its course ever since.
The artist Castilian Mancha, which was first violin of the Orchestra of the University of Waterford, in Ireland, and has released four albums, evolved from folk to a more rock sound with a fusion also results in direct potent in connecting from the beginning with the public.
His music is characterized by his classical training, mixing roots, his travels, and his musical research.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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