"Alberto Nieto Meca, fundador del “Festival Internacional de Jazz”, de San Javier, deja una estela difícil de superar."
The regional television channel 7RM will broadcast the concerts of the 23rd edition of the San Javier International Jazz Festival 2021 every Saturday night, from October 9, 2021 to January 15, 2022, with the broadcast between the 11:45 PM on Saturday and 01:00 AM on Sunday.
The concerts and the dates on which they will be broadcast are as follows:
October 9, 2021: The Jayhawks.
October 16, 2021: Alana Sinkëy Quintet.
October 23, 2021: Iván “Melón” Lewis & The Cuban Swing Express with Arahí Martínez.
October 30, 2021: Matthieu Saglio Quartet and guests: Isabel Julve, Abdoulaye N’Diaye, Camille Saglio and Carlos Sanchis.
November 6, 2021: Daniel García Trio & Maureen Choi.
November 13, 2021: Mauri Sanchis Band featuring: Damon Robinson & Oneida James.
November 20, 2021: Giovanni Mirabassi & Cyril Mokaiesh.
November 27, 2021: Marc Berthoumieux & Giovanni Mirabassi Quartet.
December 4, 2021: Monty Alexander Trio.
December 11, 2021: Steffen Morrison.
December 18, 2021: In Memoriam Chick Corea: Carles Benavent, Jorge Pardo, Tino di Geraldo, Niño Josele, José de Josele and Tomasito.
January 8, 2022: Lucrecia.
January 15, 2022: Pepe Rivero Trio.
Festivales En Radio 3 - Festival de Jazz de San Javier - 28/08/21
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Its broadcast is scheduled for August 27, the last Friday of this month.
During the 15 days following the date of its broadcast, nine of the ten concerts can be viewed on the website “RTVE.es a la carta”. The concerts and their broadcast dates are as follows:
(*) The MONTY ALEXANDER TRÍO concert will not be available on “RTVE.es a la carta”; therefore, it can only be viewed at the time of its broadcast on TVE 2.
These rules are mandatory when attending the concerts of the San Javier International Jazz Festival.
Among the rules to be observed, we highlight the following:
Exceptions:
We thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The San Javier Jazz Festival, which for the first time will present two awards dedicated, one of them to its former director, Alberto Nieto, and another musical to the Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander, will feature 15 bands in 11 nights of live shows, 8 of them in the auditorium and 3 on the streets.
El alcalde de San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, el director del Festival, David Martínez y Alberto Nieto, que ha seguido colaborando como asesor musical, presentaron esta mañana en el Conservatorio de Música de San Javier, el cartel de un programa con mucha presencia de grandes músicos de Cuba, protagonismo del piano y otros instrumentos de cuerda como el chelo, el violín y la viola, menos habituales en la música de jazz. La organización del Festival no ha ocultado la dificultad que ha supuesto este año su programación “pero teníamos claro que este año, más que nunca, había que apostar por la cultura” señaló David Martínez.
The 23rd San Javier International Jazz Festival will commence on July 16 with one of its unavoidable events that brings to the auditorium for the first time one of the best country rock and alternative country bands, The Jayhawks, who with 35 years of experience history come to San Javier after the publication of one of the best albums of his career, “Back Roads and Abandoned Motels” (2018). Another of the Festival's highlights will be the presence of Brad Melhldau, the best pianist of his generation and a jazz star who returns to Jazz San Javier on July 28th with his Trio composed of musicians such as Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard. It will take until July 31st to see Monty Alexander, the Miami-based Jamaican pianist, one of the jazz greats with more than 75 albums and a long career that oozes jazz, blues and the Jamaican echoes of his roots. On July 31st, there will be a double program with a second part starring Steffen Morrison, a native of Suriname living in Amsterdam, considered one of the values of European soul with influences from the most romantic classical soul.
On July 17th, the Portuguese singer and guitarist living in Madrid, Alana Sinkëy, accompanied by her Quintet, will be seen at Jazz San Javier. Vocalist for groups like Patax and Cosmosoul, she is considered one of the best soul and R&B voices in Spain. It will be a double program night that will be completed with the Cuban pianist living in Spain, Iván “Melón” Lewis who will present “The Cuban Swing Express”, a supershow with 11 musicians on stage with the Cuban singer Arahí Martínez as a guest. On July 23rd, the cellist Matthieu Saglio will perform with his usual Quartet and four guests such as Isable Julve on singing and dancing, Carlos Sanchis on accordion and the vocalists Abdoulaye N’Diaye and Camile Saglio. On July 24th, the piano returns with Daniel García, who follows in the wake of the greats of flamenco jazz and who will perform with the Cuban musicians with whom he has recorded his album “Travesuras”, Reinier “El Negrón” on double bass and Michael Olivera on drums with violinist Maureen Choi. The second part of the night will star Mauri Sanchis, one of the best European organists closely linked to the San Javier Jazz Festival where he returns accompanied by vocalist Damon Robinson and bassist Oneida James.
The piano will be the protagonist again, on July 30th, with another old acquaintance of Jazz San Javier, the great Italian pianist Giovani Mirabassi who will perform accompanied by the singer Cyril Mokaiesh with whom he has recorded an album “Naufragés”, in which the French chanson and jazz merge. Mirabassi will complete his concert playing with one of the great jazz accordionists, Marc Berthoumieux, accompanied by his quartet. The final party will arrive on August 1st with a tribute to Chick Corea, winner of the San Javier Jazz Festival in 2018 and one of the most beloved jazz stars at the San Javier Festival that has brought together a large group of artists who They had worked with him at some point in his career as Carles Benavent, Jorge Pardo, Niño Josele, José de Josele, Tino di Geraldo and Tomasito to remember him from the stage with a unique show.
The San Javier Jazz Festival will also take to the streets, with the collaboration of different councils of the San Javier City Council, with three nights of free concerts that will start with the presence of the Cuban Lucrecia in the Plaza de España in San Javier on Sunday, July 18th. In Santiago de la Ribera, the Barnuevo esplanade will host the concert of the Cuban pianist Pepe Rivero with his Trio and the violinist Raúl Marquez with Enrique Heredia “El Negri”, as guest artist, on July 21st. Finally, in the port Tomás Maestre, of La Manga del Mar Menor, the Murcian singer Sara Zamora will perform on Sunday, July 25th, who performed one of her songs and an a cappella version of a bolero during the Festival presentation this morning in San Javier.
The director of the Festival, David Martínez announced that tickets and season tickets are on sale from today at the Festivals Office, located on the ground floor of the Town Hall and through the website www.festivalessanjavier.com. The price of tickets will be 15 euros, except for July 16 with The Jaywawks, which will cost 25 euros and the nights of July 28th with Brad Mehldau Trio, and July 31st with Monty Alexander, which will cost 20 euros. The price of the tickets will be 80 euros and includes all the concerts. The organization will contact the subscribers to confirm their locations that will be relocated due to capacity limitations imposed by social distance. At this time, it is expected that the capacity limitation will not be less than 750 seats, which is equivalent to 50 percent of the total capacity of the auditorium.
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo praised the quality of the Festival despite the difficulties of a year like this and highlighted what it means to “return to culture, return to life and experiences”. Luengo highlighted the fact of the entirely municipal organization of the San Javier Jazz Festival and stressed that it continues to go out to meet the public in other parts of the municipality.
The San Javier International Jazz Festival, which will be held from July 16 to August 1, returns this year with an edition of "transition to normality" as defined by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, who assumes the direction of the Festival after the retirement of its previous director, Alberto Nieto. David Martínez, accompanied by the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo and Alberto Nieto himself, who continues to collaborate with the Festival as musical and programming advisor, presented at the San Javier Museum, the poster for this 23rd edition signed by the designer and publicist Jorge Martínez who pays tribute to jazz music through the creative freedom of the painter Luis Feito.
David Martínez announced that the next edition of the Festival "will be more humble" than the previous ones due to the ravages of the pandemic, to which is added the uncertainty of international tours. The Festival will offer 8 nights of concerts, 3 of them double, with a total of 12 groups, most of them national with some international ones such as The Jayhawks, one of the most recognized country rock bands in the world. The announcement of the Minneapolis band is the only preview of the program revealed today about a Festival that will be dedicated to the memory of Chick Corea, a musician especially loved in San Javier, who will be remembered with his own project that will be unveiled along with the rest of programming in the second half of May.
The Festival intends not to give up music in the street, although it is under study, within the health protocol to be followed to guarantee the safety of the public and which will be marked by the current health situation. In any case, and after the suspension for the first time in its history of last year's edition, "today's presentation has added value because it symbolizes the return, albeit with limitations, of our summer festivals," said the mayor who announced that this year the Festival Award, which in each edition is awarded to a musician, will go to Alberto Nieto in recognition of his work at the head of the Festival since its inception. Nieto, who thanked the mayor, José Miguel Luengo and the director, David Martínez, for their willingness to give continuity to the Festival, reiterated his offer to continue collaborating with the Jazz Festival, which maintains the same team in the entirely municipal management of the Festival “that he faces the future without forgetting his past”, said David Martínez.
A memorable poster for a very special edition of the Festival
The designer and publicist Jorge Martínez has found in the painter Luis Feito "the drive, agitation, tension, chaos and freedom of jazz music" to which he pays tribute. An admirer of the one of the founders of the artistic group El Paso, whom he met in the filming of a documentary, he obtained the rights to the work for the poster with which he also alludes to the cry of freedom that is in the origins of jazz and of the avant-garde of the artists' collective that emerged in Spain at the end of the 50s.
The legacy of Luis Feito, who died on February 7 because of Covid, serves Jorge Martínez also to honor the victims of the pandemic with a poster that breaks with the image of recent years, announcing a new stage of the Festival.
"For me it's like coming home," said Jorge Martínez, who grew up in Santiago de la Ribera, and who was the author at the beginning of his career of the poster for the first edition of the San Javier Jazz Festival. The multi-award-winning designer and publicist, author of several successful documentaries and an expert in creativity and social innovation, has changed the image of the performers and musical instruments on the posters of recent years for a tribute to sound, the jazz music that he has found reflected in Feito's free play.
The great piano master Chick Corea, one of the great jazz legends and a good friend of the San Javier International Jazz Festival, who awarded him the Festival award on his visit in 2018, has passed away. Rest in peace.
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