June 25th – July 30th at the Almansa Park Auditorium

Festival Programme

Saturday June 25th   ● Biel Ballester Trio + Costel Nitescu    12 Euros
   ● Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes
    

Friday July 1st    ● Sergio Monro       12 Euros
   ● Lee Ritenour Band (ft. Dave Grusin)

Saturday July 2nd ● Lenny Andrade & Sambop Band    12 Euros
   ● Monty Alexander Trio

Wednesday July 6th ● Ludovic Beier New Montmartre Quartet   12 Euros
   ● Ramsey Lewis & His Electric Band 'The Sun Goddess Tour'

Friday July 8th  ● Carla Cook & Albert Bover Trio    25 Euros
   ● Wynton Marsalis & The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra 20 Euros pass

Saturday July 9th ● Jaume Vilaseca Quartet & Ravi Chary   12 Euros    ● Elvin Bishop

Tuesday July 12th ● Chicago       36 Euros
    

Friday July 15th  ● Rene Marie       12 Euros
   ● Joe Louis Walker

Saturday July 16th ● Niels Lan Doky Trio      18 Euros
   ● The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with John Pizzarelli

Friday July 22nd  ● John Scofield Quartet (ft. Mulgrew Miller, Bill Stewart 25 Euros
      and Scott Colley)
   ● Eric Burdon & The Animals

Saturday July 23rd  ● Hiromi: The Trio Project (ft. Anthony Jackson & Simon 15 Euros
      Phillips)
   ● Lucky Peterson

Saturday July 30th  ● Pink Turtle       12 Euros
   ● Chris Farlow & The Norman Beaker Band

A festival pass is available for 100 Euros which allows admission to 10 concerts. Chicago is not included. The ticket price for Wynton Marsalis & The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra is reduced from 25 to 20 Euros.

www.jazz.sanjavier.es Ramsey Lewis, Chicago, Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra, Eric Burdon & The Animals and John Pizzarelli & the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra will perform at the San Javier Jazz Festival 2011. The 14th edition of the San Javier Jazz Festival, which will be held from June 25th to July 30th, will be

 dedicated to the memory of Gary Moore and Solomon Burke, and will include some of the best musicians in the current jazz and blues scene. The return of legendary pianist Ramsey Lewis, this time with his Electric Band and with a Jazz-Funk project, a genre which he invented. Jazz Rock supergroup Chicago's first concert in Spain; the return of Eric Burdon & The Animals, and two of the world's most prestigious big bands, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra with special guest John Pizzarelli are some of the highlights of this year's program. Other jazz greats like Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander, Californian guitarist Lee Ritenour, and guitarist John Scofield will clear the way for other young musicians who are already world renown like Japanese pianist Hiromi with her new trio, Danish pianist Niels Lan Doky, or the new star of the accordion Ludovic Beier. Among the many European performers in this edition of the festival there will also be Spanish jazz musicians, like the pianist from Cadiz Sergio Monroy, the guitarist from Mallorca Biel Ballester and his trio who will perform with Romanian violinist Costel Nitescu, Catalonian pianist Albert Boverand his trio with the Detroit singer Carla Cook, and the also Catalonian pianist Jaume Vilaseca and his quartet with Indian sitarist Ravi Chary.

Other important names are the fantastic jazz vocalist Rene Marie; the great lady of the bossa nova Leny Andrade, or the French group Pink Turtle. Blues and rock will also be featured, as expected in an edition dedicated to Gary Moore, therefore, in addition to the already mentioned performances by Chicago and Eric Burdon, there will be performances by Elvin Bishop, Lucky Peterson, Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes and veteran British singer Chris Farlowe with the Norman Beacker Band, without forgetting to mention San Francisco bluesman Joe Louis Walker.

All in all, an edition with concerts to satisfy the most diverse palates, and which will stay true to the festival's policy of maintaining popular prices for tickets and season passes so everyone can have easy access to the temple of jazz and blues that is the Parque Almansa auditorium. Most of the concerts can also be enjoyed by fans throughout all of Spain thanks to the collaboration of  Televisión Española, Radio 3 and 7 Región de Murcia. For more information about the programme visit www.jazz.sanjavier.es, and for Facebook users, visit 'XIV ed. San Javier International Jazz Festival 2011 (Spain).'