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JORGE PARDO Present; LATIN SUMMIT

JERRY GONZÁLEZ JAVIER COLINA ANTONIO SERRANO CARAMELO RYCARDO MORENO ISRAEL S. “PIRAÑA” …and more,

Jorge Pardo presents us with a sharing and mutual nurturing, and it, world-class music event. The opening in turn, widens the limits of the night of this performance was in flamenco genre too. August, 29th 2015 at the Congress The performance is arranged as a Centre and Auditorium of Navarra, as septet playing: sax-flute, flamenco part of the “Flamenco on Fire” guitar, piano, double bass, - festival, eliciting praise of critics and Latin percussion, harmonica, and audience. The rich and diverse stage drum cube. Their repertoire leaves assembles a wide array of musicians, room to classic flamenco (soleás, shaped in all manner of musical alegrías, por bulerías, and backgrounds, who have found a flamenco), but also mixed with home for their musical productions in rhythms from , Venezuela, and the bosom of FLAMENCO. Argentina. All of that is peppered Maybe what makes this kind of music with original compositions and so grand and rich is exactly that; it is a magnificent arrangements of jazz motherly music that welcomes and standards and of classic pieces like warms everyone who comes close to “La Historia de un Amor” and more. it. It is an experience of familiar 12

A WIDE ARRAY OF MUSICIANS, SHAPED IN ALL MANNER OF MUSICAL BACKGROUNDS Piano, Sax/Flute, Spanish Guitar, Harmonica, Double Bass, Trumpet/Flugelhorn/, Drums/Cajón.

photos dossier: Marta Vila.

A bit of History, 80’s, early 90’s flamenco goes through another major event: Many It is a fact that in the last century, we musicians from arrive can find proof of flamenco meeting in Madrid, looking to improve their and evolving along with other kinds musical careers. This development of music. In particular, flamenco creates a deep process aiming to meets Latino and Afro-American build a community and to cohabitate rhythms. The birth of this music is that is still ongoing between many probably influenced by the , flamenco and Latino musicians. folklore, and it flourishes around the Performances and groups of many lively atmosphere of people and cargo sorts count with members of this (and the music that travelled with extraordinary band between their them) back in the XVI century in the lines, either as core constituents or ports of Seville, Cadiz, and Havana. featuring them, but now they come The Cantes de Ida y Vuelta (round- together for this: trip songs) started as a consequence of this. However, that is not the end FLAMENCO LATIN JAZZ of the story, but it carries on until our SUMMIT days. During the late

“Flamenco conveys a feeling that “I’ve been very lucky in having the “After studying jazz and classical fulfills me, and it has rhythm opportunity of playing hand in music, working with Paco de Lucía patterns that allow me to play with hand with a lot of musicians who showed me the depth of flamenco.” them.” have taught me I-don’t-yet-know- how-much.” Jerry González Javier Colina Antonio Serrano In lacinia, enim sed luctus ultricies, velit odio tempor mauris, in aliquet nunc sem tempor nisi. Jerry Gonzalez is a New Javier Colina taught himself Antonio Serrano started to Yorker jazz musician with to play the double bass after learn music at the age of 7, Vestibulum sodales. Proin sit amet dolor. Aliquam aliquam Puerto Rican roots, who lives learning to play piano. He is a mentored by his father, who lobortis lacus. Suspendisse sed est eu in Madrid. Trumpeter and reference for double bass developed a personal pede malesuada sollicitudin. Sed percussionist, he is a pioneer players in both and teaching method designed to vulputate. Nulla facilisi. Lorem ipsum Europe. dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing of the Latin jazz; he created teach to play any instrument elit. Vivamus tellus est, hendrerit id, the legendary “Fort Apache” and musical genre using the elementum a, tempor eu, dui. Band. He inherited the expressive harmonica as the axial dynamism from Bill Evans, instrument. Vivamus volutpat tempor sem. He studied in the Music & but he is also an exceptionally Proin iaculis ante quis erat. Proin metus nisl, fermentum a, pharetra sit Art High School, the Music versatile musician who Antonio complemented this amet, tincidunt id, quam. Vivamus College of New York, and dominates effortlessly music formation in the feugiat pellentesque pede. Nunc New York’s University. From as miscellaneous as jazz, conservatoires of Madrid and nonummy. Proin egestas congue velit. Donec fermentum felis. Aliquam 1984 to 1999 he played with Latino music, pop, and, more Alicante, learning to play metus. Aenean orci nisl, nonummy in, 's Latino jazz than anything, flamenco. In several instruments. There he eleifend at, porttitor quis, tellus. Duis ensemble; from 1984 to 1990 this type of music, Colina has starts to gain some notoriety lacus. Pellentesque nunc. Integer with McCoy Tyner's band (in taken the lead in the use of as a harmonica player and he fermentum. a sextet and in a the double bass. He is, along was called by the great Larry later on); and from 1984 to with , one of Adler, to play with him to a 1987 he played with Jaco the greatest exponents of concert for the United Pastorius' band. Jerry today’s panorama in the Nations in Paris, with González’s popularity grew world of four-string- Barbara Hendricks and exponentially after his instruments. Plácido Domingo. That was participation in Fernndo the beginning of his career as Trueba’s film, “Calle 54.” a classical harmony player.

“Flamenco and jazz have one of “ Mi experiencia va desde Lebrija a “ Tocar con todos estos amigos y their points of convergence in that Nueva York, allí confirme muchas grandes músicos, además de ser un both are kinds of music that belong cosas del jazz de las que había orgullo, me encanta, nos lo to the soul of their people.” aprendido, me siento orgulloso de pasamos genial tanto en el poder tocar en este grupo “ escenario como fuera de él” Javier Massó “Caramelo” Rycardo Moreno Israel Suarez “Piraña”

Javier Massó (Caramelo) is a De Lebrija (Seville 1981) was Israel Suarez, also known as great musician from Cuba: born into a gypsy family and "El Piraña", began his career pianist, composer, arranger, a mulatto mother, which with Niña Pastori, whose percussionist, and producer. makes fusion something group he joined later on. His He lives in Madrid, Spain. deeply ingrained in him. The work led him to collaborate Javier Massó “Caramelo” is start of his musical career was with Sara Báras, , praised by the audience in at age 11 playing the guitar , Giovanni every stage where he plays. for the cante of his Hidalgo, Horacio "El Negro", grandmother; “Pepa la Chano Domínguez, Jerry He is considered one of the Cartuja”, and for his uncles… González, , best Cuban pianists of Latin jazz in the world, capable of He is related to Diego Flores Niño Josele, Alain Pérez, fusing any musical genre. “El Lebrijano”, Juaniquí and Concha Buika, Ricky Martin, la Rumbilla de Lebrija, among Marizza, Enrique Morente, His interpretations of others. He has played the Estrella Morente, José Mercé, flamenco, made side by side guitar with Dorantes Diego el "Cigala”, El Potito, with artists as great as Ramón at the Jazz Festival of San Paquito D' Rivera, Guadiana, “El Portugués”, Niño Josele, Sebastian, the San Javier Jazz Cañizares, and Luz Casal. He or Duquende, are especially Festival, the Toulouse Jazz is a member of ilustrious noteworthy. Festival, the Paris Jazz Paco de Lucía’s latest crew Festival, and at the National and he has had the chance to Music Auditorium. go on several world tours since he started to work with

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Video cortesía de Flamenco on Fire. PRENSA

A creative meeting of immense luxury; a group with an original repertoire and extraordinary arrangements of standards from both sides of the Atlantic considered under the same light.

FLUTE SOLO(Camarón, Morente, de Lucia INFLUENCIAS DE MAMBO (Rycardo Moreno)

SOLEÁ. (El Chaqueta y otras) LIBERTANGO (Antonio Serrano)

HISTORIA DE UN AMOR (Boleroxbulerías) TANGOS FLAMENCOS (Jorge Pardo)

OBSESIÓN. (Jerry Gonzalez) CARAVAN. (Duke Ellington)

DOUBLE BASS SOLO (Javier Colina) SANLÚCAR-MOJÁCAR (Jorge Pardo)

LO LOGRAMOS (Jorge Pardo) MOON RIVER (Henry Mancini)

DANZóN (Javier Massó “Caramelo” & “Piraña) NORTH AFRICA ()

LA COMPARSA (Bebo Valdes) IMAGINE (John Lennon)

CONTRATACIÓN

Ángel Luis Vicente Rodríguez. [email protected] Telf; 0034/950 61 74 68 Móvil; 0034/660 38 89 83