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43rd EDITION CARTAGENA JAZZ FESTIVAL
Salvador Sobral, Chief Adjuah, Robben Ford, Kronos Quartet, GoGo Penguin, Marco Mezquida, Theo Croker, Yerai Cortés and Pat Metheny are the subscription concerts for the 43rd edition of the Cartagena Jazz Festival. The festival, organized by the Cartagena City Council, is selling 200 tickets at €100 for these hall concerts that will be held at the El Batel Auditorium . Gilipojazz, Guadalupe Plata and O Sister! These are the concerts that will be held on the Terrace of El Batel, on the Sundays of the festival, and that are not available for subscription . The sale is activated tomorrow, Friday, August 9, at 12:00 p.m.
“The complete program of the festival, with the concerts held at Mr. Witt, Puertas de Murcia and the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center assembly hall, will be announced in mid-September,” indicated the delegate councilor for Culture, Nacho. Jáudenes, who announced the information about the festival, together with its director, Eugenio González. “The 200 tickets for all the El Batel concert halls, as well as the tickets for these concerts and those scheduled for the terrace, will go on sale this Friday at 12:00 p.m. The subscription includes the Pat Metheny concert that was presented a few days ago.
The first of the festival subscription concerts will be that of the Portuguese Salvador Sobral, Friday, November 1. He is coming to Cartagena for the second time, he was already at La Mar de Músicas in 2018. The Portuguese crooner will be there with his new work 'Timbre', a colorful palette of songs.
It's hard to sound cooler than Theo Crooker, Saturday, November 2. This trumpeter, composer and vocalist born in Florida in 1985 has been making authentic virguerías for years with soul, r'n'b, jazz, hip hop or electronics as alibis. Crooker is one of the most prominent names of the most recent batch of jazz that is brewing on the New York scene. After traveling halfway around the world as a member of Dee Dee Bridgewater's band, he will perform for the first time in Cartagena.
On Sunday, November 3, it will be the turn of Yerai Cortés , a member of that new generation of artists who are taking flamenco to unknown and exciting territories. Despite her youth, she already has a vast career that has led her to collaborate with artists of the most diverse genres: from flamenco innovators and transgressors such as Rocío Molina, to musicians from different latitudes such as Judeline, Ralphie Choo, Lola Índigo or C . Tangana, whom he has accompanied on his now legendary tour “Without singing or tuning.” After having participated in New York in the Legacy festival in tribute to Paco de Lucía, he comes to Cartagena with his show 'Coral Guitar'.
A few days ago it was announced that guitarist Pat Metheny, one of the most influential musicians in the history of music, will perform in Cartagena, on Friday, November 8, as part of his world tour to present his latest work 'MoonDial' at the which will not be just another concert, but a celebration of innovation and tradition within the world of jazz.
One day later, on Saturday, November 9, it will be the turn of trumpeter Christian Scott, now known as Chief Adjuah . In his latest album, he has left aside his reference instrument, the trumpet, to pay tribute to the ancestors and the African-American diaspora, symbolized in the Black Indians of New Orleans, one of the most fascinating musical cultures. He does it only with his voice and with new instruments created by him, such as the Adjuah's bow, a combination of the African n'goni and the kora with the European harp. In this new stage, Adjuah synthesizes the traditions of West Africa with his avant-garde approach to jazz and the musical roots of his hometown, New Orleans.
On November 10, it will be the turn of Robben Ford, a true guitar master . With five Grammy nominations, a three-decade solo career and a resume that includes Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell and George Harrison, his achievements reflect the versatility and musicality of someone at the top of rock, blues and jazz. . He is considered one of the main electric guitarists who has not set foot at the Cartagena Jazz Festival since 2008.
Kronos Quartet is the most revolutionary string instrument quartet in the world. They will be at the Cartagena Jazz Festival on Friday, November 15. A musical group that was born to completely revolutionize the way of understanding music and that in 2023 celebrated its fifty years. Thanks to the Kronos Quartet, a completely new repertoire began to be created, much of which was composed expressly for them by the cream of American minimalist and post-minimalist musicians: Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Michael Gordon and Laurie Anderson. But there is more, since the group has tackled versions for string quartet of rock pieces by authors ranging from Jimi Hendrix to Trent Reznor, through Sigur Rós or Pete Townshend, not to mention their forays into music such as African, Mexican, Argentine, the musical tradition of the Middle East, India and China or the jazz universe.
The brilliant British band Gogo Penguin returns to Cartagena Jazz, Saturday, November 16, to demonstrate that their compositions have an emotionality and a cinematic power that barely needs words to surprise with the originality of this bet that fuses styles, in a format that goes from the acoustic to the electronic.
The subscription concerts will conclude with the brilliant Mallorcan pianist Marco Mezquida, Sunday, November 17. Musician for whom there is consensus among the press, programmers, public and his own colleagues pointing him out as one of the most brilliant and promising appearances on the European music scene. An artist destined to conquer any imaginable stage in the world
Outside of the subscription, on the first three Sundays in November, on the terrace of El Batel, Gilipojazz, Guadalupe Plata and O Sister! will perform. Gilipojazz is a Jazz-Punk power trio from Madrid with 87.29% instrumental music, where other styles such as Funk or Progressive Rock, Metal and touches of classical music are also combined. Sunday, November 3.
Guadalupe Plata will perform on Sunday, November 10; The blues-rock group from Úbeda is characterized by titling all its albums with the same name as the group, for its international projection and, above all, for its peculiar way of fusing blues with rock, jazz, psychedelia and even flamenco. He will come to present his latest work. Just like the Andalusian O Sister! a swing group that recreates the golden age of vocal jazz, the popular music of the 1920s and 1930s in North America, who will perform on Sunday, November 17.
The concerts of Puertas de Murcia, Mr Witt and those that this year will be held at the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center remain to be seen