The Banda Municipal performs at 12.00 at the Apolo and Clasijazz Liberation Music Orchestra closes the festival at 19.00 at the Maestro Padilla.
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Photo: Ayuntamiento de Almería
The Almerijazz festival faces its final day this Sunday, November 8, with two concerts. The first will be at 12.00 hours at the Apolo, with free entry, performed by the Banda Municipal de Música de Almería, conducted by José Solá Palmer. The programme, titled «Una mirada al jazz en paralelo: Andalucía – Estados Unidos», brings together the relationship between jazz and Andalusian music through composers such as the Almerian José Berenguel Escámez and the Jaen-born José Susi López, alongside 20th-century jazz figures such as Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman.
The closing will come at 19.00 hours at the Auditorio Municipal Maestro Padilla with Clasijazz Liberation Music Orchestra and its «Homenaje a Carla Bley y Charlie Haden». The ensemble brings together Steve Cárdenas, Jorge Rossy, Chris Cheek, Julián Sánchez, Marina Calleja, Esther Quevedo and Úrsula Wienken to recover part of the repertoire and arrangements of this group.
The previous night: Lins with the Filarmónica de Málaga
The seventh of the festival's nine events was held on the night of Saturday, November 7, at the Auditorio Maestro Padilla. Vibraphonist and arranger Arturo Serra, pianist and composer José Carra with his group —Joan Codina on double bass, Rajiv Jayaweera on drums and Ángel San Bartolomé on trumpet— and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, with vocalists Carme Canela and Paula Bilá, offered a symphonic revision of part of the repertoire of Brazilian pianist Ivan Lins, according to the Ayuntamiento de Almería.
The programme covered pieces such as «Rio de maio», «Anjo de min», «Arlequim, cantor da noite», «Sabrás cuidar de mí» and «Renata María», in a meeting between jazz, classical music, samba and bossa nova. The Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga was conducted by Benjamin Levy. The Málaga ensemble had already performed at the Auditorio last March with «Allegro», within the «Andalucía Sinfónica» cycle.
Almerijazz celebrates its 34th edition, organised by the Área de Cultura, Educación, Museos y Tradiciones del Ayuntamiento de Almería with coordination by Manantial de Músicas. The edition has the collaboration of the Centro Fundación Unicaja Almería, the support of Cervezas Estrella de Levante and Vera Import, and the participation of Clasijazz, El Faro del Jazz and Plataforma Jazz España.
