Isadora mendez scott separated8/28/2023 The event has a budget of 80,000 euros with councillor Empar Bolufer (Culture) confirming that some 15,000 euros has been awarded by the Costa Blanca Tourist Board with further grants being made available from the Conselleria de Cultura. Tickets for Xàbia Jazz 2014 are priced at 15 euros for individual performances with a ticket encompassing all performances available for 40 euros. He will be performing in Xàbia Jazz with a sextet formed by Braxton Cook on the saxophone, Matthew Stevens on guitar, Lawrence Fields on piano, Kristopher Funn on bass and Corey Fonville on drums along with guest singer Isadora Mendez-Scott. His debut album 'Rewind That' received a Grammy nomination in 2006 and he has received the Edison Award in 20. The 31-year-old from New Orleans has demonstrated an ability to switch between styles, from jazz to pop and from funk to rock and this talent has attracted a fan base which includes those from the hip hop community. The final concert is on Monday 4th August with American saxophonist Christian Scott whose influences include Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. She has gone on to produce two critically-acclaimed albums and in 2013 she won the title of Best Female Singer and Best Album award for 'Kampachuda' at the Cabo Verde Music Awards. She wanted to create a new sound, in her ancestor’s dialect Creole, that would mix traditional African and Cape Verde rhythms like Batuke, Morna, Cola djon with her jazz contemporary influences, in a totally intimate and acoustic vibe, different from the traditional festive environment of Cape Verdean sounds. Born in Lisbon but with Cape Verdean roots, Souza started singing professionally in a Lusophone Gospel Choir before joining producer and mentor Theo Pas'cal to produce her debut album 'Essênha Cabo Verde' in 2003. On Sunday 3rd August the Portuguese singer Carmen Souza performances reflect the influence of the works of Nine Simone, Billy Holliday, Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McCrae. The originality of the project has encouraged the Xàbia Jazz team to schedule a special screening of the award-winning documentary about the young band directed by Ramon Tort entitled "Kids and Music" on Friday 1st August at 10.30pm in the Riurau d'Arnauda, admission is free. There constantly-changing repertoire consists of some fifty themes including Dixieland, New Orleans, Swing, Big Band, Bebop, Funky and Vocal Jazz. Debuting in 2006, the Sant Andreu band has established itself as an internationally-recognised musical education project which has already recorded three albums and accumulated numerous awards. The band is led by saxophonist and bass player Joan Chamorro who featured in the festival in 2012 with one of his pupils Andrea Motis, a performance which achieved great accolade from both the audience and critics. Under the artistic direction of Kiko Berenguer, the festival kicks off on Saturday 2nd August with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, considered the youngest in Europe with twenty musicians aged between 7 and 18 years old. The popular Xàbia Jazz music festival returns for its fourteenth edition over the first weekend of August with the familiar pattern of three evening performances, all at 10.30pm, on the special stage erected outdoors in the Plaza de la Constitución. Line-up for the 14th edition of the popular festival also features Carmen Souza and Christian Scott Sextet EUROPE'S YOUNGEST BIG BAND WILL OPEN XÀBIA JAZZ 2014
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