From 9 to 13 September, the Tanjazz Festival returns in a more cosmopolitan 16th edition ever.
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S i Tangier has always been known for being the crossroads of world cultures, jazz in fact a place of rendezvous of choice for music lovers and a meeting point for artists from the East and West. The 16 th edition of Tanjazz will be held from September 9 to 13 to provide the best jazz on five continents. It will issue a world tour of gender through the work of 100 jazzmen. Since the countries where the jazz culture is deeply rooted in history to those that are remote.
With its institutional, diplomatic and cultural partnerships growing number Tanjazz receives some 22 formations, a hundred musicians, who come from five continents.
In the program
In just five days, the festival promises a cruise that will take you to the distant Oceania. It's Australia has just pop jazz vocalist Sally Street. Not until it is "Love Drunk" for it tells us his"Hardest mistakes" .
Pleasure of the senses, clarinet Arun Ghosh comes from the UK, but the Indian jazz book of incredible magic. Listen: "As Closer" , "O Amar Mati Desher" . Still in Asia, jazz-fusion group ragga MoonArra comes from Bangalore, accompanied terrible Lebanese bluesmen of The Wanton Bishop that will make you "Sleep with the Lights On" .
Africa will be represented by the Senegalese kora jazz Ablaye Cissoko, the Kabyle Yacine Malek, songwriter and talented pianist and excellent Gnawa Express, homegrown.
The Americas will reward us with a beautiful blend of rhythms and influences. The perky Landen Ruby and the burning fire Nikki Hill come to us from the North. In Latin America, Minino Garay shorten his Afro-Latin jazz urban Argentine, while the Cuban Ivan "Melon" Lewis and a modern big band revisiting all the standards of its "Social Club".
Europe finally be widely present through training from Italy, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Ireland, France, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland. A very eclectic menu that will go electric groove of the New York Italo Roberto Gatto, the piano of JP Wallon. Collard Neven, flying over the sleek and raw blues Irish Grainne Duffy, and very free lyricism of Spanish trio Sumrrá, to blend in with the deep soul-rock of the Syrian-Moroccan-Swiss Samia Tawil.
UNESCO supporter Tanjazz
The appointment cult jazz was not built on a single suite of concerts but also thanks to the many meetings between artists and residences. Besides the daily jam sessions, the 16 thedition of the festival will close at the Palace by the merger "India meets Africa" artistic meeting of MoonArra with Gnawa Express. A strong message of openness and peace to the world comes from the city of the Strait. Recall in this connection that Tanjazz 2015 is the first and only Moroccan festival to enjoy the UNESCO label as part of celebrations for the 70 thanniversary of the international institution. Highly sought after and prestigious label, giving the event a universal reach and the city of Tangier a strong cultural influence.
In these times of unrest and tension that clenched the world, just a good swing to cling to life.Appointments made in September!
Fedwa Misk. La Vie Eco www.lavieeco.com
