MCCOY TYNER TRÍO
McCoy Tyner - piano
Gérald Canon - double bass
Eric Kamau Gravatt - drums
McCoy Tyner (1938 Philadelphia) pianist and composer. At thirteen years of age he began to play the piano and within a few years, music had become the centre of his life. With his neighbour, Bud Powell, the legendary bebop pianist, he made perfect harmony. In the mid fifties, he accompanied big soloists like Kenny Dorham, Jackie McLean, Benny Golson, Sonny Rollins and Max Roach.
At seventeen he met John Coltrane, a meeting which changed his professional future, but it was in 1960, when they got together to produce 'My Favorite Things' (1960), that he was to become part of one of the most innovative jazz bands ever. Coltrane found in Tyner a pianist who worked openly and comfortably in the field of jazz. In 1962, McCoy Tyner recorded his first record as band leader, 'Inception', for the record label 'Impulse!' In 1965, after five years in the Coltrane quartet, Tyner left the group to explore his own destiny as a composer. He founded his own trio and began a career as a freelancer, which led him all over the world to play with all kinds of musicians. In 1967, he signed a contract with the record label 'Blue Note' and made an extraordinary album entitled, 'The Real McCoy'. Hailed one of the great pianists
of hardbop, McCoy Tyner, in the same year, recorded a masterpiece entitled 'Sahara' considered by the specialists' magazine, 'Down Beat', the best jazz record of the year. At the end of the eighties, he concentrated on working with his trio. In 1995 he returned to Impulse! and made a magnificent album called 'Infinity' alongside Michael Brecker. In 1996 he recorded a very special album with music by Burt Bacharach; 'What the World Needs Now'. In 1998, he recorded an interesting album of Latin music; 'McCoy Tyner & The Latin All-Stars', and another with the collaboration of Stanley Clarke; 'McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke & Al Foster'. Recently, he has arranged music for big bands, using string arrangements and even reinterpreting pop music.
Up to now, Tyner has produced around 80 albums, won four Grammies and was awarded Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. He continues leaving his mark on the new generations of improvisers and carries on, without doubt, being stylish and very spiritual.
Monday, 9th August, at 22.30h. Can Cirera Prim Park
KYLE EASTWOOD BAND
Kyle Eastwood – double bass
Graeme Flowers – trumpet
Graeme Blevins – saxophone
Andrew McCormack – piano
Martyn Kaine – drums
Kyle Eastwood (Los Angeles, 1968), composer and bassist, grew up in Carmel (California), where he remembers doing his homework whilst listening to jazz records by Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Miles Davis.
At eighteen, Kyle began to play the electric bass with friends from school and learnt to play R&B, reggae and Motown. He went on to play double bass mainly after meeting Ray Brown and John Clayton and after having spent many hours on set with Lenny Niehaus, who composed the soundtrack for 'Bird' (1988), a film paying homage to Charlie Parker, directed by Kyle's father, Clint Eastwood. Since then, he has helped with the soundtracks of Clint's films such as, 'Mystic
River' (2003), 'Million Dollar Baby' (2004), 'Flags of our Fathers' (2006), 'Letters from Iwo Jima' (2006) and 'Invictus' (2009). After years getting to know and playing at venues in New York and Los Angeles, Kyle finally signed a contract with the label Sony, with whom he brought out his first album 'From Here to There' in 1988, with his own standards and compositions, in which Joni Mitchell appears. During his stay in London in 2004, he produced his international success 'Paris Blue', which sold thousands of copies all around the world. The record is a mixture of groove and jazz with touches of pop and electronics. 'Now' (2006) is his third record in which Ben Cullum collaborates on vocals. In 2009, he produced the album, 'Metropolitain', coproduced by Erin Davis (the son of Miles Davis) and Michael Stevens. The album boasts the collaboration of great actual jazz musicians like the pianist Eric Legnini, the trumpeter Till Brönner and the drummer Manu Katché.
JVERA QUARTET
Jacob Sureda – piano
Ariel Bringuez – saxophones
Noah Shaye – drums
José Vera – double bass
Ángela Cervantes, special guest: vocals
José Vera (Palma 1970), bassist and composer. At twelve years of age he began to study music at the Palma Conservatory and at the same time started to play in local rock groups and orchestras, getting to know some of the best young musicians on the island and continuing his classes with teachers of harmony and jazz like Tito Capblanquet, Periquito E. Linale and Deborah Carter, Rubén Andreu, Baltasar Clar, J. R. Abellan and others. In Barcelona, he studied at the Lliceu Conservatory, The Jazz Class (El Aula de Jazz) and at the the Musicians' Workshop (el Taller de Músics) with double bassist, Horacio Fumero. Back in Mallorca, he began to play as a permanent musician at the
Jazz Forum club, working with well-known musicians such as Joan Bibiloni, Horacio Icasto, Deborah Carter, Americo Belloto and Michiel Borstlap. In 1991, he took Horacio Icasto's advice and moved to Madrid where he played jazz with Vlady Bas, Pedro Marti and Antonio Molto. In 1993 he undertook his own project 'Jimmy & Family' with the singer Jimmy Heino. In 1996 he began a long and steady period of collaborations with diverse artists and musicians such as Javier Ruibal, Jorge Pardo & Chano Domínguez, José el Francés, Patrícia Kraus, Antonio Vega, Luis E. Aute, Carlos Nuñez, Concha Buika, Ismael Serrano, Pepe de Lucia, and more. In 2006 he recorded his own CD 'Concepts', an album which fused and mixed all the styles he knew and loved from Jazz
to Fusion, Pop, Funk and Hip-Hop. He is currently presenting his second album 'Butterfly' where a jazz atmosphere is impregnated with Afro-Caribbean and Mediterranean colours, aided by grand collaborators like Jorge Pardo and Antonio Serrano.
5th JAZZ SEMINAR WITH THE TRAVELING SCHOOL OF JIMMY WEINSTEIN
The jazz seminar includes all types of musical instruments. Five days with master classes, improvisation classes (ideas and concepts), rehearsals for groups, live performances by the groups, and the award of certificates by the Traveling School.
Minimum instrumental experience: 2/3 years
Information: 687434795 / jwtrav@gmail.com
Place: Cultural Centre Sa Congregació. C/Rosari, 25, Sa Pobla.
Seminar Timetable
Friday, 20th August
10.00-11.00 Inscription
11.00-12.00 Introduction
12:30-14:00 Instrument/Improvisation Class
Saturday, 21st August
10.00-11.30 Instrument/Improvisation Class
12.00-14.00 Groups rehearsal
Sunday, 22nd August
10.00-12.00 Instrument/Improvisation Class
12.30-14.00 Master Class. “The Duet: A lesson about playing duo and its various developments”, Francesco Guaiana.
16.00-18.00 Groups rehearsal
Monday, 23rd August
10.00-12.00 Groups rehearsal
12.30-14.00 Master Class. “Let My Children Hear Music”, Stefano Solani
Tuesday, 24th August
10.00-12.00 Instrument/Improvisation Class
12.30-14.00 Master Class. “Rhythm, Melody and Harmony in free Playing”, Paolo Porta.
16.00-18.30 Groups rehearsal
19.00-21.00 Sound Check Concert
21. 30 FINAL SEMINAR CONCERT, in the Plaza Major
Teaching Staff
Lilli Santon, vocals
Paolo Porta, saxophone
Toni Miranda, guitar
Francesco Guiana, guitar
Stefano Solani, double bass
Jimmy Weinstein, drums and seminar director
The 'Traveling School' (www.trvschool.com) is a cultural group dedicated to running creative seminars and musical master classes within the fields of festivals, schools and social programmes. Founded in 2002, Traveling School has worked in Spain, Italy, Portugal and the United States. It has worked with, amongst others, Carnegie Hall (New York), Borja in Jazz (Aragon), Sa Pobla Jazz (Mallorca), Jazz in Laurino, Arteiblea and Gezmataz (Italy), EuroFest Bucharest (Romania). Traveling School dedicates itself to promoting cultural interchanges through the arts. www.trvschool.com / www.playjazz.it
Tuesday 25th August, in Plaça Major, at 21.30h
THE TRAVELING SCHOOL SEMINAR'S FINAL CONCERT
Jimmy Weinstein, director of the Traveling School, a cultural association dedicated to the promotion of creative music seminars within the field of festivals, schools and social programmes, is the soul and co-ordinator of the Jazz Seminar. He leads the music workshops where participants work closely in an emotional and dynamic atmosphere. The workshops are designed to encourage musicians to improvise and they put emphasis on group interaction. Jazz, Rock and Blues are used as trampolines to help pupils learn to improvise. The students live together for five days, rehearsing together, sharing ideas, improvising and enjoying the advice and comments of the teachers, able to play all types of instrument. The Seminar closes with a grand concert where students and professional musicians get together on stage and perform live what they have learnt during the previous days in a performance and 'jam session', so celebrating and achieving the aims of an educational project opening new values within the music of the 21st century.
From 4th to 24th August
ART EXHIBITION
By Biel Aguiló
Sala Els Cavallets, Plaza Major, Sa Pobla. From 20h until 22h
Inauguration, Wednesday 4th August at 20h
Thursday, 12th August, at 22.30h, Plaza Major CINEMA INVICTUS
US. 2009. 134 minutes. Drama, sport, racism. Director: Clint Eastwood. Music: Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens. Script: Anthony Peckham, based on the book by John Carlin. Photography: Tom Stern. Actors: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon and Tony Kgoroge.
Kyle Eastwood demonstrates his musical skill as the composer and the musical arranger for the film along with the musical producer Michael Stevens. Kyle began in the world of film with a contribution to the soundtrack of the Oscar-winning film 'Mystic River' (2003).
After being released from prison, and recently elected president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela attempts a reconciliation between blacks and whites. A rugby match could herald the culmination of his long work started behind bars.
