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Soul Music IX
Concert: Ronald Baker & Ignasi Terraza Quartet
Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009
Location: tent park Almansa, San Javier
Time: 22:00 h.
Price: 7 euros
The young American trumpeter and singer based in Paris Ronald Baker will share the stage with the great Catalan pianist Ignasi Terraza, at the opening, next Saturday, the cycle of Soul Music, forming a band than supplementing with saxophonist Pierrick Pedron, the Dimitri Skidanov bass, and the charismatic New Yorker drummer Leon Parker, whose sound is characterized by economy of means and a waste of creativity.
The concert will begin at 22:00
tent in the park Almansa include both original compositions as Ronald Baker Ignasi Terraza, well known versions of jazz standars.
Alberto Nieto, developer of the cycle organized by the Department of Culture of the City of San Javier, a concert will be "affordable to all audiences, in which no shortage of brilliant improvisation as it is five virtuosos of jazz."
Ronald Baker, who follows the bebop school, has been compared to Lee Morgan, a jazz great of the 60 ', which has been considered critical successor.
In addition to trumpet, Baker stands out as a singer, with a strong command of vocalese, which also reminds the trumpeter and singer Leroy Jones, who could be heard 3 years ago at the Festival de Jazz de San Javier near La Vella Dixieland.
The pianist Ignasi Terraza, one of the greats of jazz in Spain, which many compare with Tete Montoliu, will accompany him to form a quintet in addition to other exceptional musicians like the French saxophonist Pierrick Pedron, a key figure in the French jazz scene today The Russian bass Dimitri Skidanov, and drummer Leon Parker, whose peculiar and unique sound from the "less is more", which is part of his philosophy and that has led him to dispense with as many elements as possible in your battery.
Soul Music cycle includes four other appointments until 25 April.
The American singer Vonda Shepard act in concert on Saturday 21 February.
The legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal will on 13 March.
American jazz singer René Marie will perform on April 4, and Osibisa, the pioneer of African rock emerged in the 60 'close the cycle on 25 April.
Photo 1: Ignasi Terraza; Photo 2: Ronald Baker, Photo 3: Leon Parker
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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