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The first edition of the Murcia Jazz Festival, organized by the City of Murcia, starts this weekend (February 29 and March 1) with a parade in charge of the Dixieland Train Jazz Band that will run through the city center.
Starting at 12 noon, the Murcian formation composed of seven musicians and created in the purest New Orleans style will surprise pedestrians with their adaptations of jazz dixieland classics of the early twentieth century.
On Saturday, the parade will begin next to the Romea Theater and will end hours later in the Plaza de las Flores after passing through well-known and busy squares such as Plaza Santo Domingo, Plaza de la Cruz, Apostles, Cetina, Plaza Europa and San Bartolomé.
On Sunday, also at 12 noon, the music will start playing in Alfonso X, at the gates of the Archaeological Museum, to continue through Santo Domingo, Plaza de la Cruz, Apostles, Belluga, La Glorieta, Martínez Tornel, San Pedro and, Again, the Plaza de las Flores.
The Murcia Jazz Festival will be held until March 28 and, after this announcement through the streets and squares, on Friday of next week, March 6, concerts will begin in theaters.
In total, eight concerts of great national and international jazz figures have been scheduled and four of them will take place at the Teatro Circo Murcia (TCM): In the first one, on March 6 (9pm), Javier Colina will take the stage , Marc Miralta and Perico Sambeat, CMS TRIO, with his successful recipe for jazz, Latin standards and popular roots music.
On March 12 (9pm) it will be the turn of Clarence Bekker Band;
The current training of the Dutch musician who went from being a dance music star in the 90s to playing in the streets of Barcelona, ​​where the American producer Mark Johnson listened to him and invited him to participate in the project 'Playing for Change', with stars as Bono, Keith Richards and Manu Chao.
The band led by Bekker will arrive at TCM just three days after their debut album, 'Changes', goes on sale.
The Israeli jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger Eli Degibri will also play with his band on March 20 (9pm), composed of three promising young musicians: the award-winning pianist Tom Oren, bassist Alon Near and drummer Eviatar Slivnik.
Eli Degibri Quartet's latest work is 'Soul Station', a well-deserved tribute to the great Hank Mobley.
The last of the concerts scheduled at the TCM will be on March 27 (9pm) and will be provided by Catherine Russell Quintet.
Russell, one of the great international ladies of jazz-blues, has become one of the most versatile and dynamic performers, whether accompanied by a solo piano or a band.
Another of the Murcian stages that will open its doors to the Murcia Jazz Festival is the Bernal Theater, which will host, on March 7 (9pm), the performance of Curro García Quintet.
The formation led by the Murcian drummer Curro García will present his first record work, 'Five cities and a bitter truth' ,.
The municipal auditoriums of Guadalupe and Beniaján will also host two concerts on March 13 and 21 (21h).
In the Auditorio de Guadalupe, they will make the Zoot Suiters dance to the public, with their rhythms and sounds of the golden 20s;
while Patxi Valverde Quartet will present her repertoire in Beniaján, combining her own arrangements and compositions with a good dose of swing and great improvisations.
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Finally, the Jazzazza Jazz Club de Algezares will receive the Felix Schneider Quartet on March 14 (10:30 p.m.);
a formation born in 2014, while the German pianist resided in Valencia for a season, and resumed from November 2017, when Schneider returned to Spain to present his new compositions with a modern jazz style, where several atmospheres are experienced without forgetting the tradition .
Free activities
One of the objectives of this new festival is to bring music to the street and bring a wide range of proposals close to jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and other genres and related styles to all audiences.
Also publicizing the work carried out by formations in the Region of Murcia.
Many of them will actually participate in free outdoor activities organized during the month of March.
In addition to the inaugural parade, on Sunday March 15 (12h) a Swing Matinal (Dan Barrett Swing Party) will take place in the University Square, and the following week, on March 22, in the same place at the same time , a Murcian Blues Matinal will be held with the participation of Baboon Blues County, Santiago Campillo Trío and Oh, Brother!
Similarly, in the Plaza de los Apóstoles, a Murciano Jazz marathon will be held on Saturday, March 28, which, from 11 am to 11 pm, will put an end to this first edition of the Murcia Jazz Festival and in which the Big Band Cotijazz, the Big Band Groove In and many other formations in the Region.
The Murcia Jazz Festival will also be complemented by two activities that go beyond the musical.
A round table that, under the title 'The jazz scene.
Looking out from Murcia ', it will take place on March 26 in Pavilion 2 of the Artillery Barracks (7:00 p.m.).
And the screening, at the Rex Cinema (March 23, 9pm), of Harol Lloyd's film 'Why Worry?', To which Andrés Santos Station Band will play live music
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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