JAZZ IN Blue is a touring festival beginning on 10th February in Malaga. It stages 25 concerts in some of the major cities in Spain, before culminating in Murcia on 18th May. The three month tour takes in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Malaga, Murcia, Aviles, Valladolid and Santiago de Compostela.The programme features four major recording artists, of which three are signed to the prestigious Blue Note record label; the Erik Truffaz 4tet, the Joe Lovano Quartet Europe, the Robert Glasper Trio and The Bad Plus.
Erik Truffaz is a Swiss-born French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip-hop, rock & roll and dance music into his compositions. He signed with the French EMI label in 1996. Truffaz gained international attention with his second album on Blue Note, ‘The Dawn’, produced together with Pat Muller, Marcello Giuliani and Mark Erbetta. Since then they have produced several Blue Note albums together, such as ‘Bending New Corners’, which became a Silver Album in France. Their 2007 release ‘Arkhangelsk’ is a mixture of pop songs, French chanson, and jazz-groove.
Joe Lovanois an American post-bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinettist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls. His live work, specifically ‘Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard’, gained a Down Beat ‘Jazz Album of the Year’ award. In the late 1990s, he formed the Saxophone Summit with Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker (now deceased, replaced with Ravi Coltrane). His latest album ‘Bird Songs’ released last year primarily features the music of Charlie Parker.
Robert Glasper studied piano at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York and began working with artists from jazz, R&B and hip-hop like Mos Def, Q-Tip, Kanye West, Erykah Badu, Jay-Z and Me’Shell Ndegeoncello.
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