What you can't miss at Jazz Plaza 2024
Today is not Thursday but Magazine AM:PM presents you with a special billboard with our recommendations for the 39th edition of the Jazz Plaza International Festivalwhich will take place from the 21st to the 28th of this month.
We remind you that, although these are the proposals that our magazine considers you should not miss, many other presentations have been announced both in Havana and in the city of Santiago de Cuba. Here you can consult here the complete program.
Saturday 20
On Saturday 20 and Sunday 21, the Sala Avellaneda of the National Theater will host the Noche Insular at 9:00 p.m., featuring outstanding Cuban musicians and artists José María Vitier, Niurka González, Yaroldy Abreu, Abel Acosta and Bárbara Llanes, under the artistic direction of Dominique Roland (France).
Sunday 21
The show Beloved music will take place at the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater on the evening of Sunday 21. At 6:00 p.m. the concert, under the direction of maestro Joaquín Betancourt, will feature an extensive list of national and foreign guests including: Myrlla Muñiz (Brazil), Theorina Valetine (USA), while Aimara Villavicencio, Jorge Reyes, Emir Santacruz, Lázaro Dagoberto González, the Amadeo Roldán String Orchestra, the Amadeo Jazz Band, the Oralitura Habana project, Zunilda Remigio, Michel Herrera, Alain Pérez, El Noro, Kiko Ruiz, Mandy Cantero, and Emilio Morales will be representing Cuba.
Monday 22
At 5:00 p.m. we invite you to enjoy at the Teatro Martí the presentation of the renowned American drummer Will Calhoun, member of the band Living Colour, with which he has twice won a Grammy Award.
Photo: Suzanne Phoenix. Taken from the artist's Facebook profile.
Tuesday 23
The Fábrica de Arte Cubano will open its doors at 10:00 a.m. to host the panel "Management of events and calls with circulation opportunities for young art and jazz," as part of the theoretical spaces of the XIX International Jazz Colloquium Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam.. This panel will include Alfredo Caxaj (Canada), Alejandro Flores (Mexico), Lorenzo Suárez (Switzerland), Gilbert Rowe (Barbados), Diana Ledesma (Colombia) and Milagros Muñoz (Cuba).
In the afternoon, the Teatro Marti will feature a performance by the Dutch Swing College Band (Holland), one of the oldest classical jazz bands in Europe.
Finally, at 9:00 p.m. in the Sala Avellaneda of the National Theater you can enjoy a concert by Aaron Goldberg (USA), one of the most outstanding pianists of the modern jazz scene, with Jorge Reyes (Cuba), Oliver Valdés (Cuba) and Havana D'Primera (Cuba) as guests.
Photo taken from the Facebook page of the event.
Wednesday 24
Once again, the Cuban Art Factory will offer its space to the colloquium, this time at 11:00 a.m., for the conference Women, Diaspora and Jazz., by Neris González Bello.
In the evening, the presentations of Ramón Valle (Cuba) and Arturo O'Farrill (USA) will take place at 9:00 p.m. at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater.
Thursday 25
At 5:00 p.m. the Scandinavian Evening will take place at the Teatro Martí. The musicians Mathias Eick Quintet (Norway) and Benjamin Koppel (Denmark) will be the stars of the show.
The Teatro del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes will host at 7:00 p.m. the presentation of the trumpet player and composer Ernesto Montenegro Quintet (Spain), and at 9:00 p.m. in Nave 3 of Fábrica de Arte will be the concert entitled The art of the Cuban piano, with performances by Dayramir González (Cuba/USA), Emmet Cohen (USA), Manon Mullener (Switzerland) and Jorge Luis Pacheco (Cuba).
At the same time, but at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater, trumpeter Etienne Charles (Trinidad and Tobago) and the Dominican Jazz Project (Dominican Republic) will perform.
Friday 26
On the morning of Friday 26th will take place the discussion ECM Records: A recording platform for world jazz.. At 11:45 a.m., Stefan Gross (Germany) will speak at Fábrica de Arte Cubano about this prestigious German music label.
Oscar Acevedo (Colombia), one of the initiators of the fusion between Colombian native rhythms and jazz will perform at 7:00 p.m. at the Theater of the National Museum of Fine Arts, and at 9:00 p.m. Cuban Alain Pérez will perform at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater.
Saturday 27
At 12 noon at the Cuban Art Factory, the illustrated conversation Pianists in control of their careers will take place, with Emmet Cohen (USA), Manon Mullener (USA), Jorge Luis Pacheco (Cuba) and Aldo Lopez-Gavilan (Cuba) among its guests, presented by Dayramir Gonzalez (Cuba-USA).
Sunday 28
The closing concert of the festival will take place at the Avellaneda Hall of the National Theater at 9:00 p.m. and promises to be a unique evening within the program's activities. Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca will perform for the first time with the National Ballet of Cuba, directed by Viengsay Valdés (Cuba), and will also be joined by musician Mayito Rivera (Cuba) and the group Los Muñequitos de Matanzas (Cuba).
