Vitoria (EFE).- The 46th edition of the Vitoria Jazz Festival plays its first chords in a week in which all the fireworks of a balanced and highly varied event, aimed at all audiences, will explode.
The festival will warm up engines at the Teatro Principal de Vitoria from this Monday.
It will put all the meat on the grill with the great concerts that will take place at the Mendizorroza sports center starting on Wednesday 5.
The Galician double bass player Baldo Martínez will be in charge of opening the most specialized day on July 5, on his return to Vitoria with a sextet with which he will present “Música Imaginaria”.
The stage will be too small to close the first day with Maria Schneider, who together with the Oslo Jazz Ensemble will perform songs from her latest album “Data Lords”.
Pianist Brad Mehldau, one of the stars of the Vitoria jazz festival. EFE/David Arquimbau Sintes
The second day will be for pianist Brad Mehldau who, with Larry Grenadier, on double bass, and Jeff Ballard, on drums, form a highly anticipated and unpredictable trio.
Later, the young American saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the scene.
He arrives with one of the best jazz albums of recent years under his arm, “Blue Note”.
It will premiere for the first time on the main stage of this festival and will not disappoint with its alto sax and counterpoints.
The first days, for the purest jazz
The festival will progress throughout the week in search of the general public after a few days with artists of the purest jazz.
Thus, the 7th will be for the American singer and pianist Kandace Springs.
She will present “The Women who raised me”, a work in which she travels through figures who have marked her in all spheres such as Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill or Roberta Flack.
“The Bad Plus” will put the finishing touch to the penultimate session with a live show that promises to be one of those that leave a mark at a festival of this type thanks to its instrumental versions of great rock songs.
Ariel Brínguez will be the prelude to an epilogue open to all.
The Cuban professor will take all the musical influences from his island on stage before Silvia Pérez Cruz closes the edition.
The award-winning singer will satisfy the public’s expectations with ‘Toda la vida, un día’, her latest work,
The singer won the National Current Music Award in 2022, a Max in 2019 for the best original music for “Grito Pelao” and a Goya in 2017 for the best original song for the composition “Ai, ai, ai” for the film ” Close to your house’, by Eduard Cortés.
The most intimate jazz of the Festival
“Jazz at the Theatre” will once again provide the opportunity to get closer to future jazz stars and to listen to more intimate and personal works at the Principal Theater in Vitoria.
The cycle begins this Monday with the local Adrián Royo, on Tuesday the stages will be for the British saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael, who returns to the capital of Álava, while the pianists Moisés P. Sánchez and Marco Mezquida will perform “Vaivén” on July 5 .
On Thursday it will be the turn of Samora Pinderhughes, called to fill auditoriums in the medium term, and on the 7th she will have a Catalan accent with “Libérica”, led by Manuel Fortià.
The cycle at the Teatro Principal in Vitoria will be completed by the Brazilian Yamandu Costa with his guitar.
It should be noted that throughout the week “Jazz Up” will take jazz music to different squares and locations in Vitoria.
It will be with local musicians and for the nights there will be ‘Midnight Jazz’ and the traditional “jam session” directed by the young and virtuous pianist Aaron Diehl Trio. EFE