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Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. This Grammy award-nominated artist, composer, producer, thought leader, and influencer projects his voice through music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album Afro Physicist. Following the success of Escape Velocity in 2016, he ascended to a new stratosphere with Star People Nation in 2019. The record garnered a nomination in the category of Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 62nd Grammy awards. It attracted widespread acclaim from the critics, such as Stereogum. Paste and The New York Times who called it “an album that gallivants from swirling, left-field hip-hop beats to propellant swing to entrancing passages of African percussion”.
The Canarian pianist, composer and teacher, Polo Ortí, is proud to present, for the first time and exclusively, for this 33rd edition of the Canary islands Jazz Festival (Festival de Jazz de Canarias), his new project that brings together a group of young and talented musicians. The repertoire will include various genres, from original compositions to reinterpretations of classical standards, through incursions into various genres such as Jazz Fusion, Latin Music & Electro Jazz. An eclectic musical show that promises a load of energy & spontaneity.
Guitarist and composer Jonathan Kreisberg has built a strong worldwide following and has influenced the next generation of musicians with his unique combination of timeless melodicism and forward thinking lines and textures. He is known as a player who has thoroughly studied the language of jazz while enriching it with fresh new ideas, expanding the possibilities of the guitar. Jonathan has led various groups with star musicians and has performed as a sideman with such notable musicians as Lonnie Smith, Joe Locke, Ari Hoenig, Yosvany Terry, Larry Grenadier, Bill Stewart, Gary Versace, Will Vinson, Kevin Hays, Mark Ferber, Matt Penman, and Martin Bejerano, among others.
Award-winning guitarist Ana Popovic combines electric funk and slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals, and a tight blues groove with soulful, feminine vocals. Add to the mix her incredible stage presence, all of which makes her an irresistible force in the world of contemporary blues music.
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