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Jazz saxophonist Kenny Garrett closes next Thursday, April 7, the Jazz & Black Series with a concert that promises lots of fun and energy.
The concert will begin at 21 pm and ticket prices range between 12 and 18 euros.
The seats can be purchased through the website of the Teatro Circo Murcia (teatrocircomurcia.es), by phone (968 273 420) or at the box office from 11 am to 13.30 pm and from 17.30 to 20.30.
The cycle concludes after hosting concerts such as Andrea Motis, trumpet and voice that surprised by its interpretative maturity, the veteran soul singer Betty Lavette or untamed guitar Javier Vargas.
For their third release with Mack Avenue Records, Pushing the World Away, saxophonist and composer Kenny Garrett had to get to the core of the disc, changing the priorities on its agenda and immersing themselves in the essence of music.
"I'm always writing, so the composition was no problem," says Garrett, who is possibly the most imitated in jazz alto saxophonist.
"But I was traveling a lot with my band, and not rehearsing new material on tour. However, to record a disc requires a lot of preparation. I had to get away for conceptualizing music, to receive the blessings and the gift of these songs."
In Pushing the World Away, Garrett continues to mature as a composer.
As the late Mulgrew Miller, his close friend for many years, he said last year, "Kenny has always had a big sound from the beginning. He had his own unique sound, but thanks to his compositions that sound has become a even more captivating and lyrical "voice.
Garrett, in turn, makes a nod to the pianist he had known for more than 30 years in the lively and sometimes explosive first track on the album, A Side Order of Hijiki, which left untreated, as it may seem, on the hijiki edible seaweed.
"No seaweed," says Garrett "Actually Mulgrew is the word used to describe my style he used to say. 'I hear you play that hijiki'".
While not directly pays tribute to Miller, Garrett himself that pays homage to a number of friends and heroes -Chick Korea, Chucho Valdes, Sonny Rollins, Donald Brown in the World Away Pushing, which connects the album Jewel Garrett published in 2012, Seeds from the Underground. "I was not thinking about continuing the idea of ​​homage Seeds" says Garrett.
"I was writing. For example, during one of my trips to Guadalupe, was composing a happy and optimistic about the Caribbean islands issue, and that made me think of Sonny. I call it 'J'ouvert', which is the Creole name carnival. it's my 'St. Thomas'. I hope you like Sonny. "
"Hey, Chick" is an elegant dance with expressive solo Garrett.
"Capturing the Spanish, Moroccan environment," says Garrett, "and it's something I imagined playing Chick".
The lively and dance-oriented "Chucho's Mambo" with lively percussion Rudy Bird and festive trumpets Ravi Best, is the interpretation of Garrett in key Cuban salsa, how it could have been a collaboration with Valdes.
"We were trying to meet, but could not get a visa to enter Cuba," says Garrett.
"We had been writing to each other."
Adds proudly: "Chucho and I fulfill the same birthday."
"Brother Brown," a slow and emotional issue, with Garrett at the piano and a string section of three, is a tribute to Donald Brown, Garrett trusted musician and co-producer of the album.
"I wanted this piece was moving and would represent Donald's personality," says Garrett.
"We also wanted to raise the bar compositionally. Donald said, 'You wrote it, and you know how it should sound. You should play the piano.'
The other two pianists used in these sessions -Vernell Brown and Benito Gonzalez were there and I indicated that I was doing well. "
Vernell and Benito are two of the band members Garrett, both graduates of the informal Kenny Garrett School of Music.
"When I think Art Blakey being a mentor for so many years, and how Miles was a mentor for me too ... I would like to return all that to my way"
He says.
Kenny said that his group was the first stop battery as Brian Blade, Chris Dave, Ronald Bruner and Jamire Williams.
Among the batteries / Pushing the World Away / include McClenty Hunter, Marcus Baylor and Mark Whitfield, Jr. "They come here, and then there are always people waiting to touch for their own bands," he says.
Currently, the band that rotates and works Garrett is composed by pianist Brown, bassist Corcoran Holt and Hunter on drums.
Gonzalez put the piano when it is free.
And Garrett has expanded its basic quartet quintet with percussionist Bird.
"Rudy adds a lot to the band," says Garrett.
In total, Pushing the World Away has 12 tracks, all composed by Garrett, except for a magnificent version of the song by Burt Bacharach and Hal David "I Say a Little Prayer," which became famous in 1967 thanks Dionnes Warwick. "the test we played sound while we were touring Europe," says Garrett.
"And the people who were working in the halls always applauded. So we knew we had to include it on the album."
Article Downbeat last year, Garrett said, "want to see growth in every album you record".
That is certainly the case Pushing the World Away, his 17th album as a leader, which captures the artist of 52 years at the top of their creative abilities as a saxophonist and composer.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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