In a world in which music is entered in everyday life, and feels lighting radio, TV and walking in the street, no longer able to distinguish the true essence.  Or rather, it only hears half of persuasion, a real way of doing business.  There are still artists willing to play so unselfish, and make the music something more than a speculative enterprise.  Just as they were over two hundred years ago, in the States, when young people of color first sang spiritual to feel united in sunny plantations.  That sad music, dark, almost macabre generated then the Blues, who led the design of new instruments such as the battery, and the reinvention of the playing techniques, as happened to the bass, for the first time used as a stringed instrument pizzicato.  With the evolution over time scales Blues, was born on Jazz, which gave more room for ‘improvisation and individual creativity. Read the rest of this entry »

The Jazz band “The Swing murderer” meets today its tenth anniversary and celebrates with a tour that begins tonight at the Jazz Club Biribay Logroño province is expected to act on the 22:00 h.

The group Pamplonés surprised with his first work, published in 2003 by a bunch of songs full of synthesizers, electronica and cross and direct lyrics, the group did not mince his words and leave Repetência quite unpleasant expressions which dared to covered the song “Come” by The Pixies since then the group was like one of those dogs that can hardly manage to put the necklace Read the rest of this entry »

This high renown saxophonist in the jazz world, we are surprised with their new production called ‘Sudden Impact’, which in Spanish translates as (Sudden Impact), which shows a trio of beautiful sounds of saxophone, bass and guitar.

The Austrian artist to be named said, “because sometimes you are playing one and suddenly we entered the other two, helping the one with all our energy, and then left the same way” and Muriel Grossmann explains.

In this, its new album, the Austrian saxophonist, who has settled more than six years in Eivissa, is accompanied by her guitarist usual, Radomir Milojkovic, and the bass Chema Pellico, well known in jazz settings. Read the rest of this entry »

Iggy Pop will release a jazz album based on a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq this spring

Preeliminaires be based on the possibility of Houellebecq d’une Ile (the possibility of an island.) Pop (real name James Osterberg)

Pop says “Preliminaires is a quieter album with some hints of jazz,” I did because he was tired of listening to the guitar-based music

Jazz singer says in a video posted on its website. “I was beginning to hear a lot of artists of the era of New Orleans Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton all types of jazz, and I’ve always liked the quieter ballads” Read the rest of this entry »

The twenty-eighth edition of the Festival de Jazz de Terrassa (Barcelona) today begins its programming, which this season for the first time extended its area of influence with several concerts scheduled in the cities of Sabadell and Ruby vallesana, where the protagonists are Charles Tolliver and Big Band Jazz Terrassa and Jim Snidero and Jordi Farrés Trio.  Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz comes back to Asturias through “Vistel Brothers”, a quintet that will offer four cociertos in Asturias. Sessions begin today and continue tomorrow and Saturday in the wing S Club in Oviedo. On Sunday they will in the Maluk Club of Gijón.

The “Vistel Brothers” are the root and sign Cuban sounds with jazz fusion classic, with all that that implies in terms of references of the great masters. The training is the pianist Spaniard Adrian Carrio, David Casillas (bass) and Jaime Moraga (drums).

The duo was born in Cuba, when George and Maikel, the core of “Vistel Brothers’ musically engaged in the National School of Music. Besides its small way for their country, which managed to gain a prestigious event, the two brothers began to perform at his name on some of the most enigmatic jazz festivals in Monterey (U.S.), among others. Read the rest of this entry »

Marta Gomez, singer, lyricist and composer Colombian high standing in the American jazz world, opens with a double concert cycle “music of the twentieth century” of Cajastur, acted in the Social and Cultural Center of the entity in Oviedo and was made yesterday in the collegiate San Juan Bautista de Gijon. Both concerts begin at eight o’clock in the afternoon with free entry to finish capacity.

This beautiful Colombian artist, whose work converging elements of jazz, the rhythms of Latin America, from the Caribbean to the Andes, has been defined recently by the U.S. media are specialized in various musical genres as “exceptional talent and sublime voice,” something that corroborates Two myths of American roots music such as Bonnie Raitt and Kris Kristofferson, with whom he has shared stage and projects. The first chose to open their 2003 tour alongside the already well-recognized John Mayer and the solid actor and singer Kris Kristofferson shared the theme of “The Circle” composed by him and dedicated to those who disappeared during Argentina’s dictatorship, something that writer John Sandford made reference in his novel “Dark of the Moon”. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven concerts featuring women. That is the striking proposal Music Club Colegio Mayor San Juan Evangelista for the 17th edition of its Jazz Festival more spring and flowers. Will be seven concerts unconventional, as its protagonists. Some are for all tastes: avant-garde and traditional Although there is not much, lightheartedness and serious.

All have an interest. Starting who undertook to open the cycle yesterday, the afroparisiense Mina Agossi. More singers Tokunbo Akinro, Germany and Nigeria which, together with Morten Klein, tenor sax and guitar, one of the leading fashion groups in the field of acoustic soul, Tok Tok Tok. The duo perform tonight in single session, presenting the themes of his new album, She & I. Read the rest of this entry »

Alicia Keys is a singer and pianist, has received 12 Grammy-five of them with their debut album, and since he burst onto the scene in 2001 rhythm and blues has continued to amaze with his musical talent.

A few years ago he ventured into film and, after playing several minor roles, returns at this time as co-star of “A Taste of Honey”.

In November 2007, Keys released her third studio album, “As I Am”. The album’s first single, “No One”, quickly became one of the fastest courts amounted to the first places on the Billboard charts in the category ‘Hot Rhythm and Blues / Hip-Hop Songs’.

Keys’s film debut was in the film “Smokin’Aces” by Joe Carnahan. Some time later appeared in the adaptation of the bestseller “The Nanny Diaries” alongside Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti. Read the rest of this entry »

Her fingers made him special for more than six decades, but something else must move inside the pianist Ahmad Jamal at the time that has engendered good jazz for a whole life and has inspired great like Miles Davis. It is one of the scholars of the genre, a great among the creators, and Soul Music will be tomorrow, March 13, for a concert of bells.

The doubly special occasion presents itself, first as the piano teacher’s age suggests that probably not many chances in crossing the big pond to act in Europe, and second as the director of the Jazz Festival of San Javier and the cycle Músicas del Alma, Alberto Nieto, and hoped the artist last summer, ending Despite fulfilling its commitment to San Sebastian (fatally established the same day in the Mar Menor), where he was granted the prize of the festival. Read the rest of this entry »