Jerry González

EUGENE HIDEAWAY BRIDGES - (Blues from Louisiana (USA) - 10 € / 8 €

Born in Texas in 1963 but musically raised in Louisiana, Eugene Hideaway Bridges started playing the guitar when he was 5 years old. He is the son of the prestigious bluesman Hideaway Slim. Hideaway Bridges is an experienced guitar player and blues singer.

His style, according to specialized critics, is comparable to BB King, the great legend of blues, and his voice reminds to Sam Cooke. In his discography highlights Jump the Joint (2003), that remained 4th on the Livin Blues Charts US for months.

His last CD Eugene Hideaway Bridges (2007) is a Blues Music Awards 2008 nominee in best male guitar player and best album categories.

2nd August - Saturday

HOMAGE TO IBRAHIM FERRER - A journey through the rhythms of Cuba

10 € / 8 €

Ibrahim Ferrer was, along with Compay Segundo and Eliades Ochoa, one of the most illustrious members of Buena Vista Social Club.

Ferrer Son Music is a show that includes 3 of Ibrahim’s sons (Ibrahim Ferrer Jr., Normita and Oniel Moisés) touring for the first time together in Europe, to homage his father. The show includes a list of cuban songs that their father Ibrahim Ferrer played during his long life.

Chan-Chan, Perfidia or Bésame mucho are some of the unforgettable titles of cuban music history that will may be heard singed by Ibrahim’s descendants accompanied by an excellent cuban quartet.

Ibrahim Ferrer Jr. (lyrics); Norma Ferrer (lyrics); Oniel Moisés (lyrics); Haroldo Rey Arizón (piano); Alexander Acanda (double bass), Silverio Puentes (trumpet); Osvaldo Noa (cuban percussion)

5th August - Tuesday

GOULD, HARPER, VAN ES, GLASZMANN & GRAU - Jazz, from the 50s to today - Free entrance

A musical trip for the jazz from the 50s to today, in charge of an exceptional band led by the vocalist Rachel Gould, who has worked with Chet Baker and with the band of Count Basie. Also with the special collaboration of the north-american trumpeter Philip Harper, who stands out for having played for a long time with the Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Both will be accompanied by a musicians’ excellent trio from Holland and from Germany.

6th August - Wednesday

SOTA EL GRAU FUSIÓ BAND - Music crossbreeding - Free entrance

Sotaelgrau is a music collective that is an idea of the pioneers of Col•lectiu Sota el Grau, a youth and cultural association from Grau de Gandia. The band is the outcome of the union between two other bands from Grau de Gandia, Andergrau and Semenéska; and the fusion of different music styles which are also mixed with differents arts such as theatre, visual arts and dance.

S. Martí (drums & lyrics), C. Carbó (percussion), M. Bautista (bass & lyrics), M. Bautista (piano & lyrics), A. Cangi (guitar & lyrics), Z. Borrás (sax), G. Escrivà (sax), J. Jiménez (sax), J. Bautista (trombone), G. Gadea (trumpet), M. Moragues (horn), J. Martí (saxhorn), R. Palonés (lyrics), R. Martínez (lyrics)

7th August - Thursday

ORFEÓ BORJA - Party music - Free entrance

Orfeó Borja presents for the Festival a suggestive proposal, just as it is this program dedicated entirely to the songs that,during the 60s, were part of the musical memory of many of us. Los Brincos, Adamo, Los Bravos or Jimmy Fontana will be re-interpreted by the Orfeó Borja, directed by Isidro Alemañ,and accompanied by a set of 4 musicians.

Isidro Alemañ Sanchis (director). Lyrics: Núria Carbó, Patrícia Escriche, Remei Fluixà, Tania Kulagina, Loreta Lavariene, Laura Miret, Vicenta Vila, Lola Castillo, Vicenta Climent, Ana G. Cañabete, Manoli Martos, Ana Moncho, Lola Ripoll, María Román, Montse Sabater, Neus de la Vega, José Cabrero, Víctor Centella, Salva Mezquida, Pedro Nogueroles, Juan M. Valiente, Vicent Alandete, Ángel Cabrero, Albert Fuster, Santi Mayoral, Rafa Pérez, Luís Sánchez, Josep Server, Carlos Santi, Miguel Estruch (bass), Sergi Estruch (guitar & piano), Miguel Catalán (guitar), Llorenç Camarena (drums)

8th August - Friday

THE DERVISHES OF CAIRO - Music and dances from Egypt - 10 € / 8 €

The Dervishes from Cairo is a group that was born in 2001, with the aim of disseminate traditional and popular egyptian music and, specially, sufi dance.

The Dervishes from Cairo have become a group with great projection all over the world due to the strength, the enormous ability to concentrate required to execute the dance and also because of the music brilliant interpretation and the great speed whirlings which produce a different mix of emotions on stage, from joy to dizziness. The Dervishes from Cairo present us a very dynamic, sometimes frenetic performance, they will impress the audience with their colorful and skilled show.

9th August - Saturday

NUEVO TANGO ZINGER SEPTET - From tango to caribbean music - 10 € / 8 €

Pablo Zinger is an uruguayan prestigious pianist that lives in the USA, who is a regular accompanist to Paquito d’Rivera.

Zinger directs this septet formed by selected valencian solo-singers, that will perform tangos by Piazzolla and Gardel, the andine rhytms of Misa Criolla, Pixinguinha carioca chorinhos or syncopated rhythms from Puerto Rico, Mexico or Cuba.

The Zinger Septet performance has a strong element of spontaneity, improvisation and creativity, the erudite and humorous comments of maestro Zinger, all spiced with the presence of a dancing couple.

Pablo Zinger (piano & director), Roberto Turlo (oboe), José Franch Ballester (clarinet), Cassandra Didu (violin), Mariano García (violoncello), Rubén Parejo (guitar), Javier Sapiña (double bass), Alba Pérez (dance), Juan José Ripoll (dance)

12th August - Tuesday

JAUME PEDRÓS GROUP - From blues to electric jazz - Free entrance

This quartet lead by guitar player Jaume Pedrós is a project started in 2004, and was born with the idea of creating a repertoire of original music, taking jazz as a starting point and mixing it with blues, rock and funk, in an acoustic and electric context. This is best embodied in the edition of his first work entitled Barrio Alto, which was selected as a finalist in the new projects category by the prestigious Jaç magazine in 2007.

13th August - Wednesday

ATTÓMICA BAND - A latin music and jazz big band - Free entrance

Attomika is a big and numerous band of valencian musicians that is presenting in Gandia a concert with a repertoire which interpret a selection of latin rhythms, well known film soundtracks and classic jazz themes.

The main goal of every ATMK’s show is to entertain, searching complicity with the audience.

José Miguel Albero Xuti (drums), Adolfo Guerrero (latin percussion), Pep Climent (latin percussion), David Millet (bass), Francesc Albero (piano), Jorge Pastor (trombone), Marcos Ruescas (trombone), Ramón Benavent (trombone), Ramón Carreres (trombone), Sergi Albelda (trumpet), Enrique Machí (trumpet), Pere Carrascal (trumpet & lyrics), Azael Tormo (trumpet, arrangements & director), Alberto Verdesoto (alt sax), Adrià Garrido (alt sax), Paco López (alt sax), Julián Román (tenor sax), Toni Pello (tenor sax), Didier Ferrando (saxo baritone, flute & lyrics), Jazmina Sanchis (clarinet), Paco Arnalte (piccolo)

14th August - Thursday

JUAN GÓMEZ CHICUELO - Latest flamenco - 10 € / 8 €

Juan Gómez Chicuelo is one of the most relevant guitar players at nowadays flamenco scene and he also is one of the most prolific and interesting composer of the last few generations. A usual accompanist to El Cigala or Enrique Morente, Chicuelo has also worked with Joaquín Cortés and Antonio Canales companies amongst others and he even composed part of the music for the unfinished last Orson Welles film. At Gandia Chicuelo will show his last work titled Diapasión, a tour by different flamenco rythms, composed and played by his group and counts with relevant musicians collaboration.

Juan Gómez Chicuelo (guitar), Javier Gavara (guitar), Elisabet Gex (viola), Mariano Martos (double bass), Isaac Vigueras (percussion), David Domínguez (drums & percussion), Raul Levia (lyrics). Special collaboration of Raynald Colom (trumpet)

16th August - Saturday

JERRY GONZÁLEZ BAND - Latin roots jazz - 10 € / 8 €

A jazz musician having a rumbero vocation, or viceversa, New York’s trumpetist Jerry González is one of most progressive latin-jazz players. He has performed at the best jazz festivals and has collaborated with prominent interpreters like Paquito d’Rivera, McCoy Tyner or Jaco Pastorius, amongst others.

According to critics, Jerry Gonzalez started the fusion between jazz and rumba. Some examples of these are his collaborations with musicians like Paco de Lucia or Enrique Morente, as well as his role as one of the artists featured at Fernando Trueba’s film, Calle 54, and the nomination of two of his albums in best latin jazz album category at the Grammy Awards.

19th August - Tuesday

JAZZEANDO FUNK - Jazz with groove - Free entrance

Band formed in 2007 and led by drummer Lucas Jimenez, with a wide repertoire in the fusion of styles, with character issues and including themes of some of the figures of jazz fussion as Herbie Hancock, Chic Corea, Michael Brecker or Maceo Parker.

An explosive live performance with lots of groove and personality, for jazz and fusion of styles lovers.

20th August - Wednesday

THE JUBILEE JAZZ BAND - Dixieland and classical jazz - Free entrance

This band’s history is the one behind a group of veteran foreign musicians living in La Marina, some of whom have been part of the most important british jazz-bands.

Coming from very different musical backgrounds, this sextet meets to tribute dixieland music and the styles that originated the most traditional jazz from the beginnings of the XX century.

21st August - Thursday

DEBRA FELIU ENSEMBLE - Cuban music roots - Free entrance

Lead by cuban singer Debra Feliu, this quintet chooses the assembly of styles, genres and latin-american rhytms, coming from acoustic sounds, and based on cuban traditional music roots like bolero, cha-cha-cha or danzón, and also bossa-nova, jazz or latin-jazz.

22nd August - Friday

PINTERACTION - lastic creation to the rhythm of jazz - Free entrance

Mr. Pere Munera presents jazz at a quartet size, in a symbiosis of artistic variety and with a special treatment of certain standards of ethereal, emotional and spontaneous sound. This will cause beautiful strokes of an inspired Paula Folch, with brushes and plastic items.

All of this, spiced with original music that will result - if cosmic waves are conducive - relaxing and pleasant sensations of color and noble blinks to the sensitive audiovisual audience, even when the darkness of the final infinity shall attempt to seize our vivid impressions.