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.

This time, Nieto had put the tie and, for a concert sponsored by The Truth, will be featured in Almansa Park tent to one of the fathers of jazz, a true author who has inspired many musicians on pedestals puffed as Miles Davis.

A further reason is very necessary to the concert in San Javier for good music lovers, as this will be one of the exclusive two concerts in Spain in their European tour. And it will be the first.
Fraderick Russel Jones, renamed the Ahmad Jamal at age 21, when he converted to Islam 78 years looks to his maturity as a superb jazz piano teacher. Innovative and minimalist, distributes its silences and chords to create a rich own musical universe, which revolutionized the piano in the fifties.

His music can be met in the movie “The Bridges of Madison County” as Clint Eastwood, great jazz fan, Jamal chose two issues and, indeed, one of them was “Poinciana,” one of those timeless pieces such Once you have a good play on the Mar Menor.

Jamal is still one of the most influential figures in the international arena, as evidenced by his recent album It’s Magic to be presented tomorrow in San Javier. The chief architect of the piano trio in jazz has influenced countless musicians with their way of thinking about the silence, space and drama in interpretation, their weapons to captivate the audience in their live sets.

The addition of percussion opens a new direction in music always restless and innovative Ahmad Jamal, one of the few living figures from the golden age of jazz that continues to bring fresh air into modern jazz, as revealed in his latest work, produced by French label Dreyfus Birdology, which includes previously unreleased compositions as Fitnah or Papillon, along with other issues like the version performed in the Oscar-winning The way you look tonight, part of the film of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Swing Time.

The maximum has been acknowledged influence of the great Miles Davis, started on piano at age three and started at eleven career. His first group “Three Strings” I think in 1950, shortly before converting to Islam and adopt its new name Ahmad Jamal, with whom he also named his new Trio, Ahmad Jamal Trio, who recorded two albums in which they included Ahmad’s Blues classic, and a version of Pavanne, which would end later as the basic tracks So What by Miles Davis, and John Coltrane’s Impressions.