Dee Dee Bridgewater, Marc Ribot and Bill Bruford will be awarded at the 60th San Sebastian Awards. At the Jazz Festival
The San Sebastian Jazz Festival celebrates its 60th edition this year with 88 concerts, from 19 to 27 July, of which 51 will be free, with all kinds of melodies playing in the Kursaal, Trinity Square, Chillida Leku, Zurriola Beach and other stages: The Amy Winehose Band, Jamie Cullum (two concerts, one free in the Keler Space and one paid in the Kutxabank Kursaal Auditorium), Brad Mehlau, Dee De Bridwater, Marc
In addition, the Local Groups cycle (Thomas Camille, Biper Swing, Ura Duo, Eneko Diéguez Quartet, Alma Seben, Soul Cream...) and other spaces: Iñaki Salvador, Oreka TX, Arima Soul...
San Sebastian Jazz Festival Award
This year, Jazzaldia will award three awards, in recognition not only of the musical career of the winners, but also of the fact that several of the musicians have become a reference for the generation.
Onewill be picked up by Dee Dee Bridgwater, "one of the great ladies in jazz vocals," a multifaceted singer and explorer, pioneer and, at the same time, patron of tradition. "
Marc Ribot , "the guitarist who has shown the greatest creativity and ingenuity in the last few decades," according to the horse, has demonstrated his "ability to provoke, induce us to reflect, and amuse us."
Finally, the San Sebastian Jazz Festival will reward the "sophisticated and precise" drummer Bill Bruford: "He always puts his drums at the service of composition, showing not only rhythmic but also melodic sensitivity, and opening the way to expression and detail before volume."
EITB will be a collaborator of the San Sebastian Jazz Festival for the first time this year.
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