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THREE GREAT CONCERTS AT PARQUE CENTENARIO
The performance of Florencia Otero Sexteto at 9 p.m. will be the highlight of Friday’s free jazz concerts at the beautiful Anfiteatro de Parque Centenario. Singer and guitarist Florencia Otero, accompanied by great musicians including Rosario-born pianist Paula Shocrón, will perform her highly praised album Nocturno mundo, featuring music by Joni Mitchell. "We started to play the songs pretty much in the original version, and then we began making arrangements. This was a collective work; everyone was free to make their own contribution, with open arrangements,” Florencia Otero has recently said about the album’s creation process. Before her performance, the band La Mujer Barbuda will take the stage of the amphitheater at 7 p.m. and Abel Patrone Trío will do so at 8. With a seating capacity of 1,600, the amphitheater is located inside the park, near the intersection of Ángel Gallardo and Leopoldo Marechal, and has its entrance on the intersection of Lillo and Marechal. Admission, again, is free on a first-come, first-served basis.
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27 Nov 2012 OVER 70 THOUSAND PEOPLE AT BAJ.12
With the contagious instrumental precision of the extraordinary musicians of Banda Mantiqueira, which last night delivered a certainly unforgettable concert at the auditorium of Usina del Arte, the 2012 edition of the Buenos Aires Jazz came to an end. A little earlier, Juan Cruz de Urquiza’s nonet – revisiting the work of Charly García – and Javier Malosetti’s quintet had closed out the series of concerts at Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Festival’s main venue over the last six days. In total, ov [...]
26 Nov 2012 C. C. RECOLETA SAYS GOODBYE
Today, Monday (public holiday), the quintet of Javier Malosetti (photo), an iconic name on the Buenos Aires jazz scene, will close out the series of free concerts held on different stages of the C. C. Recoleta, on the fifth and last day of the Festival. The performance of the band led by this bass and guitar giant is scheduled for 8 p.m., when night falls on the beautiful stage of the Terraza of C. C. Recoleta. The concert lineup will begin earlier at El Aleph with performan [...]
26 Nov 2012 BANDA MANTIQUEIRA CLOSES OUT THE FESTIVAL
The grand closing concert will take place tonight at Usina del Arte at 8.30 p.m. Banda Mantiqueira, a Brazilian big band created by clarinetist and saxophonist Nailor Azevedo in 1991, will close out a fabulous six-day jazz-packed program. Following the tradition of ensembles such as Count Basie’s, Duke Ellington’s and the Orquesta Tabajara of the legendary Severino Araújo (deceased last August, at 95), this dream team of great Brazilian musicians comes for the first time to [...]
25 Nov 2012 A GREAT SUNDAY AT PARQUE CENTENARIO
Puente Celeste, a dream team of Argentine multi-instrumentalists that invites listeners to travel the world with its music, closes out a day of concerts at the Anfiteatro del Parque Centenario at 9 p.m. Earlier, the Festival program will offer great jazz music outdoors, in a privileged setting, all afternoon long. The day’s concert lineup begins at 5 p.m. with Trío Desatanudos; continues at 6 p.m. with Pan Negro, a supertrio composed of Jorge "El [...]
25 Nov 2012 A DAY OF PURE JAZZ AT C. C. RECOLETA
On Sunday, the Festival offers a rich and varied menu of musical delights at El Aleph and on the Terraza of C. C. Recoleta, in addition to the attractive permanent exhibition El jazz se ve, with photos by Laura Tenenbaum at the Meeting Point, and a film by the great pianist Keith Jarrett at the Microcine. To top it off, Mole Quartet – made up of Mexican musicians Mark Aanderud (piano) and Luri Molina (double bass), Argentine drummer Hernán Hecht and American musician David Gilmore [...]