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21.06.08 The Jazz in the Night Cycle Program

Nuria Cora Quartet

• June 26th.
• Pub Quomo
• 00.00h.

This quartet established by Nuria Cora –a singer with a long-lasting experience in varied musical styles always revolving around jazz– will play for the first time at this issue of Imaxinasons ’08.
Her new band follows the pathway previously opened by Funny Bones, and is made up of musicians trained in courses, seminars and master classes.
Their tunes can be placed somewhere in-between the sounds of jazz and bossa nova, and are a re-interpretation of classical songs, now enriched and renovated by the ground-breaking contributions of these masterly and sensitive instrumentalists.

The band:

• Nuria Cora: Voice
• Luis Vaquero: Piano
• Loren Tabarés: Double bass
• Luis Castellanos: Drums

Calixto Oviedo Trio

• June 27th. & 28th.
• Manteca Jazz
• 01.30h.

After a whole decade in Sweden, Cuban drummer Calixto Oviedo moved to Spain to set the foundations of a musical project focussed on latin-jazz, bossa nova and funk.
Calixto Oviedo has performed in festivals across Europe, including Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. His collaborations extend to instrumentalists like Danilo Pérez, Luis Conte, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Paquito D´Rivera, Ray Barreto, Chucho Valdés, Giovanni Hidalgo, and Willie Colón, among others.
He has been present in European Festivals, such as Montreux, Niza, Copenhague, Umea, and Madrid, and has given master-classes at the US Berklee College. He is currently teaching at the A Coruña Escola de Músicos.
This trio-structure of creative and excellent Cuban instrumentalist is formed by:

• Calixto Oviedo: Drums
• Sergio Delgado: Piano and musical director
• Hansel Luis Díez: Trumpet and flugelhorn

Remedios

• June 30th. & July 1st.
• Contrabajo
• 23.00h.

This group –established after their members met by chance during jam sessions in Madrid in the year 2007– is made up of musicians from Pontevedra and Logroño (Spain), and Havana (Cuba).
Jorge Garrido is a percussionist who has just completed his studies at Musikene (Basque Country), and has participated in numerous projects playing in national festivals like San Sebastián, Santader and Imaxinasons. He now lives in Madrid and teaches drums playing at the Ritmo & Compás School.
Jazz and funk lover Carlos Mejías is a Cuban saxophonist now settled in Madrid. He graduated at Havana’s University of the Arts and won a contest where the president of the jury was Chucho Baldés.
Galician guitarist Nando Lago was trained at The Hague Royal Conservatory. He participated in various Dutch bands and now lives in Madrid, where he plays and gives lessons in a number of schools.

Band members:

• Jorge Garrido: Drums
• Carlos Mejías: Saxophone
• Nando Garrido: Guitar

Javier Pereiro Quartet

• July 2nd.
• Contrabajo
• 23.00h.

Javier Pereiro began his musical instruction at the early age of six; at nine he already played the trumpet. He discovered the magic of jazz when he was 18, and ever since his career has run in parallel to that of other young and renowned Galician artist like Ana Rábade and Paco Charlín.
Galicia, The Basque Country, Portugal, and New York where the places chosen to complete his training, working with acclaimed talented trumpeters such as Raynald Colom, Chris Kase, John Swana, and Joao Moreira.
Since 2004 he works in Cangas (across the Ría or Estuary of Vigo) with his own quartet. They have performed in jazz festivals in Galicia, Ibiza, Getxo and Zarautz (Basque Country), and Boadilla del Monte (Madrid). They tunes are mostly their original compositions, but they also resort to arrangements of traditional jazz standards.

Quartet members are:

• Javier Pereiro: Trumpet and composition
• Virxilio da Silva: Guitar
• José Santomé: Double bass
• Max Gómez: Drums

Álvaro Vieito Quartet

• July 7th.
• Pub Quomo
• 00.30 h.

This group established by guitarist Álvaro Vieito plays a repertoire of their own, but their point of departure is American jazz traditional tunes, which they now re-interpret with modern, present-day sounds and harmonies.
After studying at the Estudio-Escola of the Galician capital Santiago de Compostela, Álvaro Vieito broadened his training in New York and other world cities through seminars, master classes and other musical experiences that got him in touch with musicians of varied backgrounds and nationalities. As a teacher, he has now returned to his own musical roots by giving guitar lessons at the Estudio-Escola.

The band:

• Alvaro Vieito: Guitar
• Max Gómez: Drums
• Juansy Santomé: Double bass
• Toño Otero: Tenor saxophone

3 Azoteas

• July 4th. & July 5th.
• Manteca Jazz
• 01.30 h.

Miguel Queixas, Pablo Pérez and Iago Mouriño are three young Galician musicians who “luckily met” this year 2008. Fate, then, was responsible for a musical project which –based on a collection of the band’s original tunes– advocates collective improvisation as an end in itself, and not just as a means for something else.
As opposed to the hackneyed rule of just signing up and being loosely participating in a group, this band remains faithful to their collective ideology, and keeps their principles as a consistent and coherent band intact.

Band members are:

• Miguel Queixas: Drums
• Pablo Pérez: Bass
• Iago Mouriño: Piano