Imaxina na rúa

Thirteen years ago, the A Tempo Orchestra was set up in Pontevedra as a kind of pedagogical tool for both jazz students and fans in general aged between 13 and 55. Conducted by María Luisa Sánchez González and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez this initiative provides an entry point to blues, jazz and rock standards with an orchestral format.

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Imaxina na rúa

Thirteen years ago, the A Tempo Orchestra was set up in Pontevedra as a kind of pedagogical tool for both jazz students and fans in general aged between 13 and 55. Conducted by María Luisa Sánchez González and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez this initiative provides an entry point to blues, jazz and rock standards with an orchestral format.

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Imaxina na rúa

Thirteen years ago, the A Tempo Orchestra was set up in Pontevedra as a kind of pedagogical tool for both jazz students and fans in general aged between 13 and 55. Conducted by María Luisa Sánchez González and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez this initiative provides an entry point to blues, jazz and rock standards with an orchestral format.

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Avishai Cohen. “Seven seas”

Double bassist and singer Avishai Cohen (Jerusalem, 1970) is now presenting his new album titled Seven Seas all around the world. His European tour began in Paris last April, where he sold out tickets for his concert at the Olympia concert hall, compelling the organizers to organize an additional session there.

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Gabriel Peso Trío

Imaxina na rúa

The Modern Music and Jazz Section of the School as well as the Jazz Seminar held annually at the School are raising an increasing amount of interest among young jazz followers, boys and girls alike. The ensemble which will participate in this 7th issue of Imaxina Sons will be conducted by the School’s head teacher, José A. Acuña, and will be an excellent illustration of the high quality of these young thriving musicians, whose repertoire includes a combination of original tunes and traditional jazz standards.

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Imaxina na rúa

The Modern Music and Jazz Section of the School as well as the Jazz Seminar held annually at the School are raising an increasing amount of interest among young jazz followers, boys and girls alike. The ensemble which will participate in this 7th issue of Imaxina Sons will be conducted by the School’s head teacher, José A. Acuña, and will be an excellent illustration of the high quality of these young thriving musicians, whose repertoire includes a combination of original tunes and traditional jazz standards.

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Imaxina na rúa

The Modern Music and Jazz Section of the School as well as the Jazz Seminar held annually at the School are raising an increasing amount of interest among young jazz followers, boys and girls alike. The ensemble which will participate in this 7th issue of Imaxina Sons will be conducted by the School’s head teacher, José A. Acuña, and will be an excellent illustration of the high quality of these young thriving musicians, whose repertoire includes a combination of original tunes and traditional jazz standards.

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Imaxina na rúa

The Modern Music and Jazz Section of the School as well as the Jazz Seminar held annually at the School are raising an increasing amount of interest among young jazz followers, boys and girls alike. The ensemble which will participate in this 7th issue of Imaxina Sons will be conducted by the School’s head teacher, José A. Acuña, and will be an excellent illustration of the high quality of these young thriving musicians, whose repertoire includes a combination of original tunes and traditional jazz standards.

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Pablo Seoane Trío

Pablo Seoane (Ferrol, Galicia, 1968) has become one of the most relevant figures of Galician jazz of the last decade. In his role as pianist, composer, trainer and writer, his endless energy is conveyed to the audience through his own personal style: one which merges the roots of contemporary jazz tunes with forms and improvisations typical of classical jazz in an open experimental dialogue between tradition and modern harmonies and rhythms.

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Gabriel Peso Trío

Mompiana

Frederic Mompou (Barcelona, 1893-1987) characterized his own compositions as a kind of “music for inner hearing”, in the sense that with minimal resources the composer intended to “penetrate into the profound depths of the soul and the remotest and most secret regions of the spirit”. Pianist Lluís Vidal (Barcelona, 1959) was somehow obsessed with Mompou’s music, to such an extent that he even lived in the same building where Mompou spent the final days of his life.

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Ao redor de Cirlot

Ao redor de Cirlot. A poetic purpose from Eva Veiga and Bernardo Martínez.
At the Casa del Libro

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Sidsel Endresen

With singer Sidsel Endresen (Norway, 1952), Vigo’s Imaxina Sons Jazz Festival presents a unique vocal experience which demonstrates that, when used as an instrument, the human voice has no limits within the boundaries of jazz. This singer from Norway conducts her voice at different levels, at times dominating the stage, at times playing with textures more in line with the other instruments, melting with them. Sidsel Endresen, with her unlimited extraordinary imagination, is a poet who needs music as a form of expression, and is the best representative of atonal music.

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Marosa Jazz Project

Piccola Orchestra Gagarin

Paolo Angeli, Sasha Agranov and Oriol Roca are by themselves three very original and different artists. Over the last year they have joined the forces of their ingenuous humour on the stage with the Piccola Orchestra Gagarin project, which was established after a concert in Barcelona. Just like that of the Russian astronaut fifty years ago, their journey to the outer limits has an uncertain course. The concerts of the Piccola Orchestra Gagarin involve a unique experience.

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Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble (LUME)

With its fifteen members, the Portuguese Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble resembles the traditional big band format. Their music, however, is a long way away from any kind of traditional conception. Their first CD (Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble), published in 2010, reveals their close links with pop and rock music, and very particularly the love that the Portuguese feel for Frank Zappa and dance music. The main instrumental pillars of the band are the flute, the clarinet and the soprano saxophone. Some band members come from the realms of jazz, while others come from those of classical music. Under the conduction of composer and pianist Marco Barroso, LUME merges the influences of funk music, of boogie woogie and of the Impressionist environments. Moreover, the band blends written and improvised music and has become one of the most celebrated and welcome jazz events of Portugal of the last few years.

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Marosa Jazz Project

Pasacalles

With the Portuguese band Desbundixie. playing around the streets of Vigo, Imaxina Sons has prepared for this seventh edition of Vigo’s Jazz Festival a journey throughout jazz history aimed at raising the spirits of the local jazz audience, as well as at encouraging their love of a kind of music −jazz— which has been deemed too often as elitist.
This seven-member band can interpret a whole range of Dixieland-style songs in their funny and joyful performances, suited to all kinds of public.

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Pasacalles

With the Portuguese band Desbundixie. playing around the streets of Vigo, Imaxina Sons has prepared for this seventh edition of Vigo’s Jazz Festival a journey throughout jazz history aimed at raising the spirits of the local jazz audience, as well as at encouraging their love of a kind of music −jazz— which has been deemed too often as elitist.
This seven-member band can interpret a whole range of Dixieland-style songs in their funny and joyful performances, suited to all kinds of public.

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Documental "Jazz en Liberdade"

Pasacalles

With the Portuguese band Desbundixie. playing around the streets of Vigo, Imaxina Sons has prepared for this seventh edition of Vigo’s Jazz Festival a journey throughout jazz history aimed at raising the spirits of the local jazz audience, as well as at encouraging their love of a kind of music −jazz— which has been deemed too often as elitist.
This seven-member band can interpret a whole range of Dixieland-style songs in their funny and joyful performances, suited to all kinds of public.

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Xan Campos Trío

The highly talented Xan Campos Trío brings to Imaxina Sons a concert loaded with the latest and most innovative Galician-made jazz trends. Xan Campos, a young pianist from Cangas (sitting on the opposite shore of the Ria de Vigo) has had an amazing evolution as an instrumentalist. He met drummer Iago Fernández at Pontenvedra’s Permanent Jazz Seminar and soon established a solid musical partnership with him. Later on, the two met double bassist Horacio García at the Basque Country High School of Music, where he was attending high level courses in jazz music. Since then −more than five years ago− the three established this Trio which has just published the album Orixe Cero. Here the pianist strived to work with varied rhythmic structures and ended with a number of catchy tunes which emerged through the creative process.

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Patricia Moon

Pasacalles

With the Portuguese band Desbundixie. playing around the streets of Vigo, Imaxina Sons has prepared for this seventh edition of Vigo’s Jazz Festival a journey throughout jazz history aimed at raising the spirits of the local jazz audience, as well as at encouraging their love of a kind of music −jazz— which has been deemed too often as elitist.
This seven-member band can interpret a whole range of Dixieland-style songs in their funny and joyful performances, suited to all kinds of public.

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Pasacalles

With the Portuguese band Desbundixie. playing around the streets of Vigo, Imaxina Sons has prepared for this seventh edition of Vigo’s Jazz Festival a journey throughout jazz history aimed at raising the spirits of the local jazz audience, as well as at encouraging their love of a kind of music −jazz— which has been deemed too often as elitist.
This seven-member band can interpret a whole range of Dixieland-style songs in their funny and joyful performances, suited to all kinds of public.

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Pasacalles

Unha viaxe pola historia do jazz que ten como obxectivo animar a quen a escoita e fomentar o gusto por este xénero musical en tantas ocasións considerado elitista. Así é a proposta de pasacalles da sétima edición de Imaxina Sons coa banda portuguesa Desbundixie.

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Nils Petter Molvaer

Imaxina Sons has always been concerned about the dissemination of European jazz trends and identities, and, therefore, had a debt pending with one of the leading figures of the European jazz stage of the last decades. For that reason, it is an enormous pleasure to have been able to pay off the audience of Vigo’s jazz festival this time. Nils Petter Molvaer (Sula, Norway, 1960) is a trumpeter, composer and producer with an ambitious professional career in the world of jazz, who has tried varied styles. Undoubtedly, he has become one of the main referents of jazz in the last decade with his largely successful album Khmer (ECM, 1997), a turning point that charted the course of his future career and put him in full control of his musical journey. Nils Petter Molvaer always intends to do something different, and comes to this edition of Imaxina Sons accompanied by electronics.

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Neil Cowley Trio

Pianist Neil Cowley (London, 1972) describes himself as an outsider. His frantic activity and his musical success over the last few years, however, place him in a central position as one of the leading figures of current jazz trends. Or perhaps of pop music, since Neil Cowley makes a very special reading of the popular music of the latest decades in terms of jazz. The energy of this pianist −who claims to be “on the margins”− seems to be inexhaustible: He collaborates with icons of pop music, such as the group Stereophonics, writes music for a publicity campaign of mobile phones on TV, wins prizes and awards, and even has the opportunity to have been developing for the last six years a solid project leading his own trio.

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Julie Guravich & Victor Aneiros Band