Portal de San Javier
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Date: Friday, July 17
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium, San Javier
Time: 21: 30h.
Admission: 15 euros
Bill Charlap, one of the most prestigious pianists in the United States, please visit Jazz San Javier in trio with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington fantastic, outstanding names in contemporary American jazz.
The second evening concert starring the singer, songwriter and guitarist Ruthie Foster, who just won the award for best female jazz 2015 edition of the Blues Music Award, considered the "Oscar" of the blues.
Bill Charlap (New York 1966), recognized as one of the great contemporary jazz pianists, has performed and recorded with great jazz musicians like Wynton Marsalis or Phil Woods, among others, and singers such as Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand.
After a period as a soloist where he recorded several albums, in 1997 he formed his own trio, with whom he will perform in San Javier, and which published several albums for Blue Note.
He recently recorded "Double Portrait" an album duet with his wife, also renowned jazz pianist Renee Rosnes.
Twice nominated for Grammy awards and won the prize for jazz pianist in 2003, among other awards, Bill Charlap his mother started in music from an early age surrounded by his father, Mark Charlap, composer of Broadway, and singer Sandy Stewart with that recorded in 2005 "Love Is Here To Stay", an album of ballads on Blue Note, his header seal.
The high artistic consideration Bill Charlap in your country is also due to other professional facets as the artistic director of Jazz in July Festival in New York, of which it occupies for 11 years, in addition to musical productions he has done for Jazz at Lincoln Center.
With Peter and Kenny Washington, bassist and drummer, with whom he began Trio, currently recognized as one of the reference groups of jazz, offer a promising San Javier Jazz concert for lovers of jazz smarter.
The newly named best female blues singer by the most prestigious awards in the world for artists of this genre, the Blues Music Award, Ruthie Foster, will offer its first performance in Spain, on the second evening concert.
This singer, songwriter and guitarist eclectic Texan, whose expressive voice dominates both the blues and soul or folk, arrives at San Javier Jazz with his last and latest album "Brand Promise of a New Day" nominated for the Grammy Award Award for Best Blues Album of the Year.
Suggestive, able to enrapture the audience and excite voice, as stated criticism, Ruthie Foster, whose origin comes from the musical gospel church choirs in his native Texas, has been compared both with Aretha Frankin and Bonnie Raitt.
True to its open to all American music style, his latest album, the ninth of his career, including touches of gospel, soul, R & B blues addition reigns.
Jazz San Javier will perform accompanied by Scottie Miller on piano and organ;
Larry Fulcher on bass and Samantha Banks on drums.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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