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AN UNFORGETTABLE FESTIVAL

Six days with the participation of 150 artists and 35 thousand spectators in 60 shows and other activities carried out in 7 venues is a positive outcome for Buenos Aires Jazz.10, the event that closed the calendar of festivals that Buenos Aires has as part of its attractive cultural offer for Buenos Aires City residents as well as Argentine and foreign tourists. A festival that presented great international figures such as the pianists Enrico Pieranunzi, Frank Carlberg and Hugo Fattorusso, the singer Christine Correa, the double-bass player Renaud García-Fons (picture) and the band The Avengers led by Adam Holzman, among others. Together with these artists, many young and well known Argentine artists such as Ernesto Jodos, Diego Urcola, Fernando Tarrés, Gillespi and Ramiro Flores shared the stage.

There were top notch “Crossings”, every night between foreign and Argentine musicians at Café Vinilo and Notorius. Also, for the first time, this edition of the festival presented the section “Repatriated” with remarkable Argentine musicians living abroad, that came back home to show their music. The Ensamble Real Book Argentina was presented. This project was created by the pianist and composer Esteban Sehinkman and is about the compilation and promotion of music written by a diversity of Argentine jazz composers. The free shows at the Centro Cultural Recoleta showed the newest and the most traditional Argentine jazz in 2010. The section “The Classroom” was big this year with clinics, workshops and master classes given by several of the international guest musicians such as John Hebert, Lincoln Goines, Kiko Ruiz, Kim Plainfield and Barry Altschul, among others. Every night ended with the friendly environment of a jam session, with Gillespy as its kind and witty presenter.