ALICANTE PROVINCIAL AUDITORIUM
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Sedajazz Big Group Y Arahi Martinez
It celebrates its 30th anniversary and has won the 2021 Valencia Music Honorary Award, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, for being a meeting point to create, learn and spread jazz. At ADDA we talk about the big band Sedajazz Big Band, which shut down Fijazz, before the countless fans who don’t want to miss the “Music of Rumbo a Cuba, Chico & Rita”.
Have you seen the award-winning animated musical and romantic movie directed by Trueba, Mariscal and Tono Errando, with music by Bebo Valdés and more? The soundtrack was more successful than the movie itself. A passionate love story between a pianist and a singer in the late 1940s. Fate brings them together and separates them.
Latin timbre and jazz influence are heard with instrumental and vocal dynamism. Rhythm imposed by famous musicians with woodwind instruments, string instruments, piano, drums and congas. “Cubauza” or “Daiquiri”. The voices of the king of Batanga, Cuban composer and pianist Bebo Valdés, one of the important names of his country’s golden music age, and Chucho’s father contributed to the formation of a fascinating party. Cohesive combination and good solo interventions.
Melodic beauty and dance music takes place in a concert with the participation of Cuban singer Arahi Martínez, one of the main elements of the big band, led by Latino Francisco Ángel Blanco, who plays baritone saxophone and flute. Latin jazz and music from Cuba in classical boleros, with a warm and well-tuned sound and beautiful presence.
Other songs include “Taste of me”, “Dos gardenias”, “Away with you”, “Muñequita linda” (“You said I love you”), “We” or “Siboney”. “El manisero” sound, chachachá “Vereda tropical” or “Paran pan pan”. And it’s the projected face frame of the movie that sparks the show’s interest. Large bands were in their heyday between 1935 and 1950, and the mature crowd wanted more and more.