The 37th edition of the International Jazz Plaza Festival will raise its curtains in Cuba from January 18 to 23, with the presence of musicians and experts from nine countries, and face-to-face shows in important theaters of Havana, confirmed its organizers in a press conference.
We arrived at this festival in the midst of several “fires”, of circumstances that hit us, and despite that, there is an impetus, a desire, and an eagerness to extract that contained strength, because the Jazz is unloading what you carry inside and it accumulates, and the people see the magic of that music, “the founder of the Jazz Plaza festival, Cuban showman Bobby Carcasés, told Sputnik.
The event, which this year will be held in person, with venues at the Nacional, América and Bertolt theaters Brecht, all in Havana, will also be broadcast by Streaming Cuba on the internet, and on digital platforms s of the Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Popular Music.
Among the invited artists will be the pianist Jacob Karl Anders, from Sweden; Ray Lema and Laurent de Wilde, from France; Javier Malosetti and the La Colonia project, from Argentina; Sebastián Carmelo, from Spain; Mike del Ferro, from the Netherlands; Pekka Pylkkanen, from Finland; Radovan Tariska, from Slovakia; and Marieke Louix, from Belgium, among others.
The American musicians Dominic Miller and his quartet will also take the stage , saxophonist Donald Harrinson, Haley Gray, The Common Tatters, Dean Torrey, Juan Chiavassa, Christian Moraga and Jazzmenia Horns.
From the patio, Bobby Carcasés himself will animate the jazz party, along with talented musicians, including Nachito Herrera and Habana Jazz, Roberto Carcasés, Orlando Valle, Roberto Fonseca, Ernán López Nussa, and Germán Velazco, among other Cuban artists.
“We are reaching the 37th edition, demonstrating that jazz unites countries, mentalities, languages, and is characterized by three elements: love, because when you download you are offering your heart; the second is improvisation, and the third is the swing , the one that takes you out of your seat ”, Bobby Carcasés emphasized Sputnik .
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