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The Cartagena Jazz Festival kicks off this Saturday with Macy Gray (31/10/2014)

Start the Cartagena Jazz Festival on Saturday, day 1, the American singer Macy Gray at the Nuevo Teatro Circo, from 21.30 hours, and Cartagena in November is jazz.

The port city celebrates one of the longest running jazz festivals in Spain, this year, the 34th.

From 1 to November 22 will pass through the two festival venues, Auditorium El Batel and Nuevo Teatro Circo, a total of 14 concerts: Macy Gray, Gregory Porter, Zara McFarlane, Chano Dominguez and Child Josele, Snarky Puppy, Branford Marsalis, Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum, Al Di Meola, Jo Harman, Hannah Williams, Cat Power, Incognito, and Sivia Biasio Melanie Perez Cruz Raül Fernández Miró.

Tickets are on sale for a month. Tickets for the festival are sold out.

Macy Gray published in early October their new album The Way and will officially open the festival on Saturday.

His voice remains unique.

Take as long the roots of old school funk and soul, mixing them with contemporary influences to create his own label.

The heiress and renovating of classic soul, continues to have a unique voice.

ARTISTS

Gregory Porter perform at the Cartagena Jazz Festival accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Murcia. A unique concert premiere in Spain on Thursday, November 6. It has become in a few years one of the great figures of vocal jazz.

He has earned the admiration of audiences and critics.

It has only three albums.

The most recent published in 2013 Liquid Spirit, with whom he won a Grammy.

Porter is the voice that has revolutionized the jazz firmament in recent years and with the Symphony Orchestra of Murcia will review throughout his career.

On Friday November 7th the festival hosts a double feature starring one of the biggest surprises in recent years Zara McFarlane and binding of Chano Dominguez and Josele Santiago.

The last hope is Zara McFarlane vocal jazz, Jamaican-born British fan of Nina Simone.

Your voice is warm and sensual.

According to British critics, the best of jazz and soul of this country in decades.

That same day, the magical union with pianist Chano Dominguez guitarist Niño Josele.

One day they met in New York, invited both a tribute to Miles Davis.

They improvised a song together porque¡K as they were there, and then a wonderful album produced by Fernando Trueba emerged.

First come to Cartagena, Snarky Puppy, Saturday November 8.

With a deep respect for musical tradition but unafraid of conceptual innovation, New York band performed a live show with unprecedented energy and virtuosity.

The band will perform before the great Branford Marsalis.

Saxophonist, elder brother of the great family, is the leader of one of the finest jazz quartets of time.

The always elegant cellist Jaques Morelenbaum perform on Thursday 13 November with will dive into the sensuality and sophistication of samba, leading a trio with unique name Cello Samba Trio.

Historical arranger Tom Jobim and musical director for more than a decade in all the adventures of Caetano Veloso, the unquestioned architect of the sound of contemporary cello capable of extracting a melancholy that is pure poetry Brazil, will also be accompanied by his wife, exquisite singer Paula Morelenbaum.

His status as a guitar hero is indisputable, Al Di Meola, is a master of the strings recognized by the public and labeled as one of the greatest by many music critics will perform on Friday November 14 with his latest, a tribute The Beatles.

On the same day, and the only performance in Spain, will Jo Harman.

The singer-songwriter has not needed much time to conquer the UK with its exciting mix of soul, funk, blues and gospel, captured in his latest album Dirty On My Tongue, published in 2013 and described by the mainstream media in his country , best blues album of the year in England, and the height of the Back to Black by Amy Winehouse or Come Away With Me by Norah Jones.

On August 24th, Jo Harman was awarded Best Female Vocalist of AN or in the prestigious British Blues Awards 2014.

INDIE AND JAZZ

One of the most iconic US indie female artists also arrive this November in Cartagena.

Chan Marshall, the singer who hides under the seal of Cat Power, will be on Saturday November 15 at the festival.

That same day, another of the latest surprises that brings the UK in recent years, Hannah Williams.

Hailing from London is given body and soul to dance and emotive sounds of soul life.

Places to look for new products, and some with only one disc compared to Amy Winehouse and critics praised his songs.

Theirs is soul, no need to dig more, their music is a sovereign piece of classic soul.

The Incognito band became famous in the 80s for being one of the greatest exponents of the British acid jazz, accompanied by an infectious danceable funk, always with quality standards that the band founded by Jean-Paul Blue Maunick has shown over the years.

The group comes to Cartagena to present the themes of his latest album Soul Amplifield. An album to get lost in its beautiful, winding songs that celebrate 35 years of life training.

Unique concert in Spain on Friday 21 November.

Festival ends on Saturday November 22 with a special program featuring the premiere in Spain of Melanie Biasio and action with Silvia Perez Cruz Raül Fernández Miró.

Melanie Biasio is known as the Belgian Billie Holiday, and comes to present his latest work Deal¿ Not considered one of the finest albums of 2014. After the Belgian will turn to Silvia Perez Cruz and Raül Ferandez Miro.

Silvia Pérez Cruz is the overwhelming voice that has appeared in recent times.

Grown between Iberian and Latin American folk songs, musician educated in classical and jazz, flamenco infected through a connection that seems supernatural, sings in a way that is hers alone and makes her shudder.

Raül Fernández Miró began as an indie musician, refree, to become simply a musician.

Nothing is alien hears all appeals and all will learn something that enriches you as a songwriter, producer and instrumentalist.

Silvia and Raül have one thing that is hers alone.

They come together to present their album Granada.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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