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Salvador Sobral is in excellent form. He knows this is his moment and he’s making a great job of it. He’s a great communicator with the audience, makes a fine display of his vocal resources and moves comfortably between jazz, bossa nova and ballads, accompanied by the fabulous pianist, Júlio Resende. Thanks to these arms, he had already won over the Plaza de la Trinidad when he set about putting the cherry on the cake with a nod to Basque Culture playing Mikel Laboa’s Txoria txori on the piano.
Sobral voiced his astonishment at being able to perform after Benny Green, one of his favourite jazz musicians. Green, fronting his trio, gave an exquisite and varied concert, never straying far from the limits of classicism.
In the Kursaal Auditorium, Kenny Barron led his quintet, and what a quintet, in a recital which delighted the audience. Barron is the most elegant of the veteran pianists, and perhaps the most elegant since the disappearance of the always greatly-missed Hank Jones.
Cécile McLorin Salvant gave her second concert in the Victoria Eugenia, after her thrilling performance the evening before in the Plaza de la Trinidad. And this was another extraordinary concert, with a different repertoire, only repeating three songs, demonstrating that she has plenty to say, and all of it good.
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Master Hussain. Master Holland. Master Potter. That’s how Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain and Chris Potter referred to one another. With respect, admiration and mutual understanding. And that’s what they are. They are masters in the execution of their instruments, and in the profound vision of jazz, and in composition. And in astonishing the audience.
Cécile McLorin Salvant still can’t be referred to as a master. Not yet. She’s too young. But she’s still there, she continues to unfurl that vocal register with that captivating timbre, she does do exciting things like that priceless version of Alfonsina y el mar she delighted us with, and she will be worshipped by the generations of the future.
Cécile McLorin Salvant herself recognised her debt to the great singers to have come before her, bringing Mary Stallings up onto the Plaza de la Trinidad stage to sing a blues duo. In the morning, Stallings had given a fantastic concert in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, with that stage elegance found in classic jazz singers. The Heineken Jazzaldia, which appreciates the quality of this vocalist, less well known than she deserves, this year presented her with the Donostiako Jazzaldia Award in recognition of the importance of her entire musical career.
Pianist Brad Mehldau obtained his Master in Artistic Excellence a long time ago. His capacity to continue evolving and to reach new heights of sensitivity and lyricism amazes even his unconditional followers, many in number seeing how the Kursaal was packed to overflowing.
Another master is Mikel Erentxun, if we can understand as such a person who shows the way and who, years down the line, is remembered by students with affection and admiration. That’s what’s happening to Erentxun, as increasingly more musicians recognise the influence of his uncomplicated pop-rock. Many of his songs from twenty or thirty years back are just as up to the minute as they were then. His concert on the Green Stage was a joy for his unconditional audience and, why not say it, for Erentxun and his solid band, who had an absolute ball to themselves.
There were other masters too, like Rabih Abou-Khalil, virtuoso of the oud, and Dennis Alcapone and Dawn Penn, heralds of the reggae music made popular, all those 50 years ago, by London’s Trojan label.
With so many masters and such a diligent audience, this was a fabulous third day of the 53 Heineken Jazzaldia.
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The Beatles said it and it was proclaimed to all and sundry from the Green Stage by the extraordinary guitarist Gary Clark Jr., maker of the most powerful version of that huge hit. Blues and rock ’n’ roll flowed from Clark’s guitar to the delight of those gathered on the beach at midnight. That same Gary Clark we already discovered here in 2012, when he was starting out on his triumphant career.
Blues congregates people from all over the world. Mikel Laboa united the Basques around his songs. His beautiful melodies of unmistakable facture awoke, and continue to awaken, deep feelings in the Basques, and in those from other places who have had the luck to discover his work. He left us ten years ago and among those who miss him most is Iñaki Salvador, the musician who best knows his repertoire, having been his pianist for 25 years. Iñaki therefore put together an excellent band of three instrumentalists and two singers for a tribute concert which thrilled the audience packed into the Victoria Eugenia.
The Plaza de la Trinidad too was full to the gunwales. Coming together to applaud Jacob Collier in his world debut with a band, on this, his first time with musicians; until now, Jacob had built his fame on the videos in which he gives solo performances with several instruments. Later came some of the best exponents of the intermediate jazz generation: together yet apart, because each one maintains their personality, and prodigiously so, like Robert Glasper, Christian Scott and Terrace Martin.
What a lovely concert by Izaro on the Green Stage as the sun went down. An audience of all ages, whole families, came together to listen to this girl whose singing has that charming indefinable quality.
What a lovely concert too in San Telmo. Not to mention the cultural public-spiritedness of those who listened attentively to the interesting talk given by Patri Gioalde on the irreplaceable Billy Holiday prior to appreciating the concert by Skytrain.
What a joy to listen to the pianist Marco Mezquida at midnight in the Victoria Eugenia, drawing the utmost from Ravel’s repertoire. What a pleasure to watch the comings and goings throughout the afternoon and evening of people on the Kursaal terraces. Here, at the Heineken Jazzaldia, there’s something for everyone. Come together.
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The Heineken Jazzaldia aims to reflect cultural and social diversity, a remit met by a mile on its first day. Diversity of music, diversity of origin, diversity of audience and diversity of age; but, in this case, with one highly significant detail: young musicians were in the majority at the ten Jazz Band Ball opening concerts, thoroughly demonstrating that the jazz world is producing a promising generational change-over.
Youngsters were also in the majority among those who gathered on the sand of the Zurriola to dance to the salsa of Rubén Blades, seconded by the extraordinary combo of Roberto Delgado, with a brilliant wind section. In the audience, a joyful combination of European and Latin Americans, the latter delighted with one of their great idols.
Young, very young, at 18, is the French guitarist Tom Ibarra, already capable of heading a high-carat quintet, and yet another guitarist, Julian Lage, somewhat more veteran and with his own ideas at the front of his trio. The British threesome GoGo Penguin is a fine exponent of this generational change-over in the jazz world: they know the essences and they transform them. Another very different trio is Too Many Zooz, irreverent in form and music, based on a fiery rhythm.
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A resounding success of a night, musical diversity, fantastic weather, brilliant people. Almost 50,000 of them.
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The Donostiako Jazzaldia Award was introduced in 1994 to recognise the career and example of enormously important artists in the jazz of yesterday and today.
The 2018 Award will be presented during the Festival to the singer Mary Stallings and the multi-instrumentalist Michel Portal.
The catalogue of names to have won the award constitutes an impressive list of some of the leading jazz talents.
1994: Doc Cheatham
1995: Phil Woods
1996: Hank Jones
1997: Steve Lacy
1998: Chick Corea
1999: Max Roach and Clark Terry
2000: Kenny Barron
2001: Ray Brown
2002: Elvin Jones
2003: Bebo Valdés
2004: Shirley Horn and Fernando Trueba
2005: Keith Jarrett and Charles Mingus (in memoriam)
2006: Herbie Hancock
2007: Wayne Shorter
2008: Ahmad Jamal
2009: Roy Haynes
2010: Ron Carter
2011: Toots Thielemans
2012: Jimmy Cobb and Pierre Lafont (in memoriam)
2013: Lee Konitz and Juan Claudio Cifuentes
2014: Toshiko Akiyoshi
2015: Benny Golson
2016: Ellis Marsalis
2017: Charles Lloyd
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San Telmo Museum[/caption]
The 53 Heineken Jazzaldia will continue its successful collaboration of recent years with Musikene (Higher School of Music of the Basque Country) and the San Telmo Museum, resulting in excellent concerts turning the spotlight on local musicians, who on occasions share their projects with first-rate European and American musicians.
Also participating in this collaboration, like in previous years, is the Fundación SGAE, the General Society of Authors and Publishers, sponsor of the season.
The Heineken Jazzaldia offers Musikene the opportunity to programme projects put together by its professors and chosen by mutual agreement. Based on the same system, this year four projects of an extraordinary standard have been selected, both for the quality of their performers and for the objective interest of their proposals.
As an added feature, Patri Goialde, professor at Musikene, will give a talk before each concert on some of the greatest jazz artists of all time, a popular initiative last year. This time round, the talks, which will be in Spanish, will turn their attention to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus.
The venue has a limited capacity of 200 people. The doors will open at 11:20 and those coming along to hear the talk, which will start at 11:30, can also stay for the concert, which will begin at around 12:20.
The San Telmo Museum – Fundación SGAE Space programme is as follows:
July 25th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Duke Ellington
Conrad Herwig-Carlos Martín Quintet
July 26th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Billie Holiday
Skytrain
July 27th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Charlie Parker
Chris Kase Quartet
July 28th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Charles Mingus
Andrzej Olejniczak Quartet: Interpreting Chopin
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Salvador Sobral is in excellent form. He knows this is his moment and he’s making a great job of it. He’s a great communicator with the audience, makes a fine display of his vocal resources and moves comfortably between jazz, bossa nova and ballads, accompanied by the fabulous pianist, Júlio Resende. Thanks to these arms, he had already won over the Plaza de la Trinidad when he set about putting the cherry on the cake with a nod to Basque Culture playing Mikel Laboa’s Txoria txori on the piano.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant gave her second concert in the Victoria Eugenia, after her thrilling performance the evening before in the Plaza de la Trinidad. And this was another extraordinary concert, with a different repertoire, only repeating three songs, demonstrating that she has plenty to say, and all of it good.
Another person with plenty to say is the flute-player Naïsam Jalal, who organised around his nay (Arabian flute) a group uniting the musical souls of the Middle East and Europe.
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Salvador Sobral is in excellent form. He knows this is his moment and he’s making a great job of it. He’s a great communicator with the audience, makes a fine display of his vocal resources and moves comfortably between jazz, bossa nova and ballads, accompanied by the fabulous pianist, Júlio Resende. Thanks to these arms, he had already won over the Plaza de la Trinidad when he set about putting the cherry on the cake with a nod to Basque Culture playing Mikel Laboa’s Txoria txori on the piano.
Sobral voiced his astonishment at being able to perform after Benny Green, one of his favourite jazz musicians. Green, fronting his trio, gave an exquisite and varied concert, never straying far from the limits of classicism.
In the Kursaal Auditorium, Kenny Barron led his quintet, and what a quintet, in a recital which delighted the audience. Barron is the most elegant of the veteran pianists, and perhaps the most elegant since the disappearance of the always greatly-missed Hank Jones.
Cécile McLorin Salvant gave her second concert in the Victoria Eugenia, after her thrilling performance the evening before in the Plaza de la Trinidad. And this was another extraordinary concert, with a different repertoire, only repeating three songs, demonstrating that she has plenty to say, and all of it good.
Another person with plenty to say is the flute-player Naïsam Jalal, who organised around his nay (Arabian flute) a group uniting the musical souls of the Middle East and Europe.
Others who are also making a good job of it are Morgan, the surprise of the year among Spanish groups. Fans gathered in their thousands for their early evening concert on the Green Stage, and all left contented.
There’s no space for thousands at the San Telmo Museum; only for two hundred. Every day it fills with people eager to enjoy the interesting talks on the subject of jazz given by Patri Gioalde and the concerts following them. Yesterday the lead part was taken up by the Polish saxophonist Andrzej Olejniczak and his reinterpretation of Chopin.
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Master Hussain. Master Holland. Master Potter. That’s how Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain and Chris Potter referred to one another. With respect, admiration and mutual understanding. And that’s what they are. They are masters in the execution of their instruments, and in the profound vision of jazz, and in composition. And in astonishing the audience.
Cécile McLorin Salvant still can’t be referred to as a master. Not yet. She’s too young. But she’s still there, she continues to unfurl that vocal register with that captivating timbre, she does do exciting things like that priceless version of Alfonsina y el mar she delighted us with, and she will be worshipped by the generations of the future.
Cécile McLorin Salvant herself recognised her debt to the great singers to have come before her, bringing Mary Stallings up onto the Plaza de la Trinidad stage to sing a blues duo. In the morning, Stallings had given a fantastic concert in the Victoria Eugenia Theatre, with that stage elegance found in classic jazz singers. The Heineken Jazzaldia, which appreciates the quality of this vocalist, less well known than she deserves, this year presented her with the Donostiako Jazzaldia Award in recognition of the importance of her entire musical career.
Pianist Brad Mehldau obtained his Master in Artistic Excellence a long time ago. His capacity to continue evolving and to reach new heights of sensitivity and lyricism amazes even his unconditional followers, many in number seeing how the Kursaal was packed to overflowing.
Another master is Mikel Erentxun, if we can understand as such a person who shows the way and who, years down the line, is remembered by students with affection and admiration. That’s what’s happening to Erentxun, as increasingly more musicians recognise the influence of his uncomplicated pop-rock. Many of his songs from twenty or thirty years back are just as up to the minute as they were then. His concert on the Green Stage was a joy for his unconditional audience and, why not say it, for Erentxun and his solid band, who had an absolute ball to themselves.
There were other masters too, like Rabih Abou-Khalil, virtuoso of the oud, and Dennis Alcapone and Dawn Penn, heralds of the reggae music made popular, all those 50 years ago, by London’s Trojan label.
With so many masters and such a diligent audience, this was a fabulous third day of the 53 Heineken Jazzaldia.
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The Beatles said it and it was proclaimed to all and sundry from the Green Stage by the extraordinary guitarist Gary Clark Jr., maker of the most powerful version of that huge hit. Blues and rock ’n’ roll flowed from Clark’s guitar to the delight of those gathered on the beach at midnight. That same Gary Clark we already discovered here in 2012, when he was starting out on his triumphant career.
Blues congregates people from all over the world. Mikel Laboa united the Basques around his songs. His beautiful melodies of unmistakable facture awoke, and continue to awaken, deep feelings in the Basques, and in those from other places who have had the luck to discover his work. He left us ten years ago and among those who miss him most is Iñaki Salvador, the musician who best knows his repertoire, having been his pianist for 25 years. Iñaki therefore put together an excellent band of three instrumentalists and two singers for a tribute concert which thrilled the audience packed into the Victoria Eugenia.
The Plaza de la Trinidad too was full to the gunwales. Coming together to applaud Jacob Collier in his world debut with a band, on this, his first time with musicians; until now, Jacob had built his fame on the videos in which he gives solo performances with several instruments. Later came some of the best exponents of the intermediate jazz generation: together yet apart, because each one maintains their personality, and prodigiously so, like Robert Glasper, Christian Scott and Terrace Martin.
What a lovely concert by Izaro on the Green Stage as the sun went down. An audience of all ages, whole families, came together to listen to this girl whose singing has that charming indefinable quality.
What a lovely concert too in San Telmo. Not to mention the cultural public-spiritedness of those who listened attentively to the interesting talk given by Patri Gioalde on the irreplaceable Billy Holiday prior to appreciating the concert by Skytrain.
What a joy to listen to the pianist Marco Mezquida at midnight in the Victoria Eugenia, drawing the utmost from Ravel’s repertoire. What a pleasure to watch the comings and goings throughout the afternoon and evening of people on the Kursaal terraces. Here, at the Heineken Jazzaldia, there’s something for everyone. Come together.
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The Heineken Jazzaldia aims to reflect cultural and social diversity, a remit met by a mile on its first day. Diversity of music, diversity of origin, diversity of audience and diversity of age; but, in this case, with one highly significant detail: young musicians were in the majority at the ten Jazz Band Ball opening concerts, thoroughly demonstrating that the jazz world is producing a promising generational change-over.
Youngsters were also in the majority among those who gathered on the sand of the Zurriola to dance to the salsa of Rubén Blades, seconded by the extraordinary combo of Roberto Delgado, with a brilliant wind section. In the audience, a joyful combination of European and Latin Americans, the latter delighted with one of their great idols.
Young, very young, at 18, is the French guitarist Tom Ibarra, already capable of heading a high-carat quintet, and yet another guitarist, Julian Lage, somewhat more veteran and with his own ideas at the front of his trio. The British threesome GoGo Penguin is a fine exponent of this generational change-over in the jazz world: they know the essences and they transform them. Another very different trio is Too Many Zooz, irreverent in form and music, based on a fiery rhythm.
Deserving of a separate mention is Endangered Blood, a powerful quartet made up of Jim Black, Chris Speed, Oscar Noriega and Trevor Dunn. And the Trizak trio, with members Hasier Oleaga, Jon Piris and Julen Izarra, proving that Basque jazz is now at a moment of maturity.
This time the Jazz Band Ball fest didn’t stop at the Zurriola and the Kursaal. It made its way to Alderdi Eder, with huge public following, and to the Nauticool, setting of beautiful sunsets. And the San Telmo Museum had its aperitif in the shape of a fabulous concert with two trombone players showing excellent form, Conrad Herwig and Carlos Martín, preceded by an interesting talk given by Patri Gioalde, professor at Musikene, on Duke Ellington.
A resounding success of a night, musical diversity, fantastic weather, brilliant people. Almost 50,000 of them.
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The Donostiako Jazzaldia Award was introduced in 1994 to recognise the career and example of enormously important artists in the jazz of yesterday and today.
The 2018 Award will be presented during the Festival to the singer Mary Stallings and the multi-instrumentalist Michel Portal.
The catalogue of names to have won the award constitutes an impressive list of some of the leading jazz talents.
1994: Doc Cheatham
1995: Phil Woods
1996: Hank Jones
1997: Steve Lacy
1998: Chick Corea
1999: Max Roach and Clark Terry
2000: Kenny Barron
2001: Ray Brown
2002: Elvin Jones
2003: Bebo Valdés
2004: Shirley Horn and Fernando Trueba
2005: Keith Jarrett and Charles Mingus (in memoriam)
2006: Herbie Hancock
2007: Wayne Shorter
2008: Ahmad Jamal
2009: Roy Haynes
2010: Ron Carter
2011: Toots Thielemans
2012: Jimmy Cobb and Pierre Lafont (in memoriam)
2013: Lee Konitz and Juan Claudio Cifuentes
2014: Toshiko Akiyoshi
2015: Benny Golson
2016: Ellis Marsalis
2017: Charles Lloyd
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The 53 Heineken Jazzaldia will continue its successful collaboration of recent years with Musikene (Higher School of Music of the Basque Country) and the San Telmo Museum, resulting in excellent concerts turning the spotlight on local musicians, who on occasions share their projects with first-rate European and American musicians.
Also participating in this collaboration, like in previous years, is the Fundación SGAE, the General Society of Authors and Publishers, sponsor of the season.
The Heineken Jazzaldia offers Musikene the opportunity to programme projects put together by its professors and chosen by mutual agreement. Based on the same system, this year four projects of an extraordinary standard have been selected, both for the quality of their performers and for the objective interest of their proposals.
As an added feature, Patri Goialde, professor at Musikene, will give a talk before each concert on some of the greatest jazz artists of all time, a popular initiative last year. This time round, the talks, which will be in Spanish, will turn their attention to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus.
The venue has a limited capacity of 200 people. The doors will open at 11:20 and those coming along to hear the talk, which will start at 11:30, can also stay for the concert, which will begin at around 12:20.
The San Telmo Museum – Fundación SGAE Space programme is as follows:
July 25th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Duke Ellington
Conrad Herwig-Carlos Martín Quintet
July 26th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Billie Holiday
Skytrain
July 27th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Charlie Parker
Chris Kase Quartet
July 28th
San Telmo Museum - Fundación SGAE Space. 11:30. Admission free.
Talk by Patri Goialde on Charles Mingus
Andrzej Olejniczak Quartet: Interpreting Chopin
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Salvador Sobral is in excellent form. He knows this is his moment and he’s making a great job of it. He’s a great communicator with the audience, makes a fine display of his vocal resources and moves comfortably between jazz, bossa nova and ballads, accompanied by the fabulous pianist, Júlio Resende. Thanks to these arms, he had already won over the Plaza de la Trinidad when he set about putting the cherry on the cake with a nod to Basque Culture playing Mikel Laboa’s Txoria txori on the piano.
Sobral voiced his astonishment at being able to perform after Benny Green, one of his favourite jazz musicians. Green, fronting his trio, gave an exquisite and varied concert, never straying far from the limits of classicism.
In the Kursaal Auditorium, Kenny Barron led his quintet, and what a quintet, in a recital which delighted the audience. Barron is the most elegant of the veteran pianists, and perhaps the most elegant since the disappearance of the always greatly-missed Hank Jones.
Cécile McLorin Salvant gave her second concert in the Victoria Eugenia, after her thrilling performance the evening before in the Plaza de la Trinidad. And this was another extraordinary concert, with a different repertoire, only repeating three songs, demonstrating that she has plenty to say, and all of it good.
Another person with plenty to say is the flute-player Naïsam Jalal, who organised around his nay (Arabian flute) a group uniting the musical souls of the Middle East and Europe.
Others who are also making a good job of it are Morgan, the surprise of the year among Spanish groups. Fans gathered in their thousands for their early evening concert on the Green Stage, and all left contented.
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Author: jazzaldia
Day of the masters
Master Hussain. Master Holland. Master Potter. That’s how Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain and Chris Potter referred to one another. With respect, admiration and mutual understanding.
→
Come together
Come together.The Beatles said it and it was proclaimed to all and sundry from the Green Stage by the extraordinary guitarist Gary Clark Jr., maker of the most powerful version of that huge hit.
→
Tribute to diversity
The Heineken Jazzaldia aims to reflect cultural and social diversity, a remit met by a mile on its first day.
→
Mary Stallings and Michel Portal to receive the 2018 Donostiako Jazzaldia Award
The Donostiako Jazzaldia Award was introduced in 1994 to recognise the career and example of enormously important artists in the jazz of yesterday and today.
→
The Heineken Jazzaldia will give four concerts in San Telmo in collaboration with Musikene
The season is sponsored by the Fundación SGAE
→