October 2011 Issue - Costa Calida Chronicle

In association with Costa Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com
ROCKABILLY QUEEN Wanda Jackson
opens the XXXI Cartagena Jazz
Festival. Also performing will be the
Japanese composer/musician Ryuichi
Sakamoto, the Amercian jazz fusion
guitarist Pat Metheny, and US folk band
Fleet Foxes. The Department of Culture
recently previewed who will be appearing
in November. The full festival schedule will
be announced shortly.
Wanda Jackson is an American singer,
songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had
success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of
the fi rst popular female rockabilly singers
and a pioneering rock and roll artist. She
is known to many as the Queen or First
Lady of Rockabilly. Jackson mixed
country music with fast-moving rockabilly.
As rockabilly declined in popularity in the
Page 26
mid-60s, she
moved to a
successful
career in
mainstream
country
music with
a string of
hits between
1966 and
1 9 7 3 ,
including
‘Tears Will Be The Chaser For Your
Wine’, ‘A Woman Lives For Love’ and
‘Fancy Satin Pillows’. She has enjoyed a
resurgence of popularity among rockabilly
revivalists in Europe, and was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as
an Early Infl uence in 2009.
Ryuichi Sakamoto began his career
in 1978 as a member of the pioneering
electronic music band Yellow Magic
Orchestra. They were an international
success, with worldwide hits such as
‘Computer Game/Firecracker’ (1978)
and ‘Behind The Mask’ (1978). As
a solo artist he had success with the
experimental electronic fusion album
‘The Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi
Sakamoto’ (1978), and later released the
pioneering electro-music album ‘B-2 Unit’
(1980), which included the electro classic
‘Riot In Lagos’. He began acting and
fi lm composing with ‘Merry Christmas,
Mr. Lawrence’ (1983), which he starred
in and composed the score for. The song
‘Forbidden Colours’, which he composed
for the soundtrack, became a worldwide
hit and he won a BAFTA Award. He later
won an Academy Award and Grammy
Award for scoring ‘The Last Emperor’
(1987), and has also won two Golden
Globe Awards for his work as a fi lm
composer. In addition, he also composed
music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics
opening ceremony.
Pat Metheny is one of the most successful
and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to
come to prominence since the 70’s, and
regarded as one of the top three jazz
guitarist in the world (the other two being
John Scofi eld and Bill Frisell). Certainly he
is one of the most original guitarists to
emerge from the 80’s onward as a chancetaking
player who has taken some wild left
turns. His music at times can be diffi cult
to describe incorporating progressive
elements of folk, jazz and mood music.
Metheny has 3 Gold Albums and 17
Grammy Awards. He has been touring for
more than 30 years, playing between 120-
240 concerts a year, and last appeared in
Murcia at the San Javier International
Jazz Festival in 2005.
Fleet Foxes came to prominence in 2008
with the release of their second EP, ‘Sun
Giant’, and their debut full length album
‘Fleet Foxes’. Both albums received much
critical praise, and reviewers noted their
use of refi ned lyrics and vocal harmonies.
More information about the Cartagena
Jazz Festival at www.jazzcartagena.
com
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the Costa Cálida Chronicle
To place an advertisement with us please see page 5 or contact Teresa 619 199 407
www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com