|
At the
early eighties we liked to
headline the annual jazz course
with a name, maybe to attract
the music follower’s attention
in any of the essential jazz ´s
elements, and simultaneously,
what could be the common subject
of the programme.
As a reminder of those historic
concerts with mythic musicians
of jazz history, who performed
them, let us to come back now
with the creativity. If the
previous course, the last 25º
Jazz festival, one of its
attributes, was the absence
surely searched by the musicians
of the acoustic piano, pursuing
to get more freedom, now in fact
within every group, piano is the
principal instrument and besides
trusting with important soloists
like
Jamie Saft,
Dave Burrell, Uri Cane.
The best point is that we have a
new programme that, Pablo Sanz,
jazz critic for the daily El
Mundo recently referred as,
“Jazz flowers in Spring in the
San Juan”, I mean in a few days,
and surely it should be of
interest for the music lovers
and furthermore with the
participation, for the first
time in Madrid, of one of the
most demanded jazzman since
anytime, the legendary
saxophonist
Yusef
Lateef.
This time, surely, the musical
beauty that we try to achieve is
looking for the harmony and the
melody, with the recreation made
by those musicians of songs
written by classical and popular
composers and with their own
compositions, ever with the
importance of their
improvisation. Obviously, the
freedom in jazz continues, but
we want to tell you too, that
the names that we hastily
published are going to be
postponed for a farther future
due to the already known
financial conditions and the
full musician’s agenda.
Backing in past time, with
regard to the headlines, I
remember how the learned Jose
Ramón Rubio critic for the daily
El Pais, said with a lot of
humour in a previous of the time
“jazz is freedom and without
risk”, and in this way could be
known “jazz is equality” or
“jazz is fraternity”, from
retoric to the important the
essential point is the content.
This time, the creativity, that
is synonymous of jazz.
In this course have performed
names as Egberto Gismonti, Randy
Weston, Jackie McLean, Bebo
Valdés, Abdullah Ibrahim, Dave
Douglas, Geri Allen, Freddie
Hubbard, Dhafer Youseff, Don
Byron, Chano Dominguez and
Miguel Angel Chastang, among
others, no need of words. Now
enjoy of this new programme with
other important musicians to add
to this large history, and that
sure are going to keep impressed
in our memory with eternal
sounds.
Special thanks to private
enterprises that for a long time
have sponsored us,
El Corte
Inglés and Fundación Unicaja
for their essential
collaboration, understanding at
the same time that we’d need
something else. Since the
Official Institutions we begin
to notice their support because
is evident that a base culture
is a necessary complement to the
official one.
The mythic history of the San
Juan stands up, because of the
disinterested teamwork, the
illusion and enthusiasm of the
managers, together with the firm
labour of amateurs and media. We
have to resist because in this
society the utopia is an
essential ideal to be continued
and keep, and the Johnny, now
continues being one independent
place, necessary to the
university and to Madrid, and we
have to keep and make better.
The San Juan Evangelista*, in
residential, educational and
specially in musical domain, all
that had been said, today is
still too.
*
Colegio Mayor Universitario San
Juan Evangelista = San Juan
Evangelista = San Juan = El
Johnny
Traducción
libre de Manuel Conesa. Madrid
Febrero 2007
<<
volver a la agenda |
